Bring out the Brooms—RANGERS SWEEP the ROCKIES!

 

Yes break out the brooms—as the Rangers take the three game series against the Colorado Rockies at Globe Life Field over the weekend of May 19^th through 21^st, and twice in the series scoring double digits—11 runs on a Saturday afternoon and then 13 more runs on Sunday afternoon as well. TWENTY FOUR RUNS in two games, that’s says something about this Ranger offense.

Home Runs by Corey Seager, Josh Jung, and Josh Smith—not to mention extra base hits by a slew of Rangers to help push runs across the plate—five in the 2^nd inning and another six in the fifth. Tack on a couple of more in the 8^th and that’s your 13 runs in the game!

Andrew Heaney on the mound for the Rangers gave up ONE run but it was unearned since it was a Fields Choice and error on the 1^st baseman (Nate Lowe) trying to throw out the lead runner going into second base—however the Rockies did get a couple of more runs across when they faced reliever Jose Leclerc.

It’s the same song with the bullpen, you never know which one will show up for a game—the red hot guys or the ones that will get shell shocked and give up either a big lead and make it closer than it should, or the absolute worse, give UP the lead all together and lose it on the tail end of the late innings, where your offense is not able to break through.

Those are the frustrating games and the bullpens ineptness. Some blame Bruce Bochy the manager of the Rangers, for not managing the bullpen properly—or they point fingers at Chris Young for not getting the right arms, lets face it, the team has lost for the time being, Jacob deGrom with his injury, catcher Mitch Garver is still not back yet though he might start a rehab assignment soon, then there is the 60 days—those are the ones that the team might see sometime in July—Glen Otto, Bret martin, Jake Odorizzi, Spencer Howard, every one of those names are Pitchers—Jake Jankowski is on 10 days—along with Garver—so again, might see those guys play in either Round Rock or Frisco for rehab assignments.

For the most part however, the Rangers win three in a row against the National League Rockies, and their interleague play continues as they hit the road to take on the Pittsburgh Pirates for a set then travel to Baltimore for three games then to Detroit for another three games, back home June 2^nd when the Seattle Mariners come into Arlington to take on the Rangers for a three game division match up—then the RED BIRDS from St Louis come to town—not that any one of us still stings from GAME 6 of the 2011 World Series--- ONE OUT away—ONE STRIKE away from bringing home the hardware only to lose it in extra innings, to the Cardinals, and then game 7 was more a less an afterthought with the Cardinals in St. Louis win the whole thing for their 11^th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP in club history, and the Rangers once again come in second place for the 2^nd year in a row. (2010 lose to San Francisco Giants, led by, current Rangers Manager Bruce Bochy. (I told him at the beginning of this season, that I would not hold it against him) But I did mentioned it—so I got it out of my system!

So we turn our attention to the road games coming up and see how they fare with the Pirates, Orioles, and Tigers, before they come back home to face the Mariners.

For now it’s a good feeling to sweep a team (any team) and take that momentum with you to the next game(s).

Just a thought