DETROIT – They may not be the 1927 Yankees, but look, it’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart. As the Rangers reached the one-third point of a...
--With one game remaining on a nine-game trip – and in May – the Rangers are 13-5 in road games this month. It ties the club record for most road wins in a month, set in August 2013.
You can talk about “regression” all you want, but the Rangers are keeping pace with some historically good teams., who drove in runs in three different innings. “This has been manifesting since day one of spring training when [manager Bruce Bochy] said: ‘We are going to be a championship team and we are going to act like it’.”For most of the season they’ve also been a very good team with an identifiable problem - a bullpen that was unreliable in close games.
“My heart was beating pretty fast,” Anderson said afterward, the hints of a shaving cream attack still in his freshly done braids. “But I was able to get it back down. I just wanted to execute.” Then he came back out and struck out Jake Rogers to start the sixth. Then Akil Baddoo. And Javier Baez. He became only the second Rangers’ reliever to strike out the first four hitters in his MLB debut:But wait, there’s more. After the Rangers scored two in the top of the seventh, he used the splitter for a key strike against lefty Nick Maton, then got a liner to center. Two more strikeouts followed. And, yet he still wasn’t done. Struck out Jonathan Schoop on a sinker to start the eighth.
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