There’s still a chance Texas can salvage a .500 record out of its 10-day road trip.
Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy looks on from the dugout during a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves Saturday, April 20, 2024, in Atlanta.and fell back to .500 for the third time this week, they remained in first place in the division. Seattle, the only AL West team to win Saturday, is 10-10 to the Rangers’ 11-11.
If the Rangers can win on Sunday, they’ll salvage a .500 record out of their 10-day road trip and will finish their stretch of 17 games without a day off at 8-9. It’s survival, which is the goal at the moment.who has yet to homer 20 games into his major league career. It’s now 89 plate appearances and 79 at-bats over those 20 games. It’s the most plate appearances over the first 20 games of a Rangers career without a homer and tied with Ryan Rua in 2014 for most at-bats.
Perhaps most distressing development Saturday: Langford struck out three times. It’s the first three-strikeout game of his young career. There will be more.One thing the Rangers would like to see a bit more from Langford is a willingness to attack the first pitch if it is in the strike zone. He has swung at the first pitch in an at-bat just 4.9% of the time this year; it’s the 23rd lowest rate in the majors.
Bad as that was, it was the bigger picture stat that stood out. The Rangers have now walked 90 of the 832 batters they’ve faced, a 10.8% walk rate. It’s the third worst in the majors at the moment. That, to quote Wyatt Langford’s walkup music, is Flirtin’ with Disaster. At least we got a Molly Hatchet reference in. Look at that as the silver lining here in this thought.Austin Pruitt allowed the two-run homer to Travis d’Arnaud Friday. He’s allowed three homers in 4.1 innings and has a 12.46 ERA.
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