The Rangers have lost six in a row. The American League West, which they led by five games at the start of July, is now essentially a three-team dead heat.
for the Rangers. He never seems to change expression or approach on the field. And save for 2022, he’s been in the thick of playoff races every year he’s been in the majors. He’s played in 61 postseason games, far and away the leader in postseason experience in the clubhouse.
Though the Rangers haven’t reached the postseason since 2016, there is plenty of playoff experience on this roster. Fourteen of the current 26 active players have appeared in at least one playoff game. When pitcher Nathan Eovaldi returns to the roster, he also brings significant playoff experience.Bochy has taken his team to the World Series four times in 25 previous seasons as a manager and eight times to the playoffs.Neither, however, are Houston or Seattle.
For the Rangers, particularly for the offense, that means finding a way out of the strikeout-laden funk that has overtaken them in the last week. The issue has been creeping up all month. The inconvenient truth about this offense, potent as it is, is that it’s not a great fastball-hitting team. As a result: They are seeing more of them. The strikeout rate is rising. The Rangers struck out in 19% of their at-bats through July; it was 24.6% in August – a jump of nearly 30 percent.
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