Texas Rangers 2023 - They're Still Shitty?

[dcar00 13861]

9 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

OMG!!!?!??!! LeClerc pitched 2 innings?? He'll never be able to pitch again for a month!!!!...  -- everyone except old school motherfuckers like Bruce

 

Dude we got this. Bruce knows what he's got. 

nobody is saying that dumbass.

[mdmost 42167]

16 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

First walkoff Game 1 homer since Kirk Gibson…

[mdmost 42167]

I mean to be down 2 in the bottom of the 9th to have Corey save us. Then to have Jose F'ing LeClerc come in and throw two great innings to hold the tie. Then to have it come down to El Bombi launching one that didn't even seem like it should've gone that long is just some storybook Hollywood type shit. What an epic night of baseball. 

[gofuckyourself 8023]

Props to Taveras for looking terrible early on but drawing that 9th inning walk.

[C-Man 26535]

Props to Taveras for looking terrible early on but drawing that 9th inning walk.

Yeah, he had a terrible game at bat and in the field before that walk totally redeemed himself.

[Hornstrader 179]

I don't give shit how good Sewald's fastball is. To throw a first pitch fastball to Seager with a runner on in that situation when you have to know Seager is going to the plate hunting is just asking to FAFO

[Firemans4Horn 16852]

This call is great timing

 

 

[Gucci_Suit 2568]

44 minutes ago, chemHORN said:

My kid was born and I looked up to see Adolis rounding the bases on the TV in the room.  That's a good night

Congrats!

[C-Man 26535]

This is the first WS Game 1 win in Rangers history.

[Firemans4Horn 16852]

 

[Napoleon 8577]

57 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

I love her. 

 

I have never heard of her, but she appears to be quite fuckable. Would be very fun to celebrate the win with.

 

52 minutes ago, Gucci_Suit said:

Hedges looked like me tho. He did. I can do what he did. 

We ALL could do what he did.

His at bat was simply putrid.

[shadow_operative2.0 15669]

4 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I have never heard of her, but she appears to be quite fuckable. Would be very fun to celebrate the win with.

Great follow. Bigger Horns fan than even Rangers, supposedly MLB DM’d her this morning to say she was invited. 

[LTtxfan 48688]

5 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

This call is great timing

 

 

Love how Seager's uniform front is just full of dirt...

💥 "Fuckin' Warrior" 💥

[Fudbelty 2765]

Love how Seager's uniform front is just full of dirt...
"Fuckin' Warrior"

Any questions Adolis isn’t an Adonis. He slides and his jersey has a six pack.

[Fudbelty 2765]

Ballpark Cam of the walk off. I love these things.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11486]

I never felt more like a major leaguer than watching Austin Hedges bat.  

[TrashMaster G 17263]

8 hours ago, Fudbelty said:

Congratulations.

My first was born at halftime of the 09 TX OU game.

My middle kid was born about an hour before kickoff the day Ricky broke the record.

[ztejas 42744]

8 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Does this seem right? Doesn't seem right.

Corey's seemed like it went about 518.

Distance is just horizontal and has a lot to do with launch angle. Corey's exit velo was 112 - Pham's was 102.

[Sir Ulrich 5187]

What a game. What a team. 

Adolis in the span of a week is close to supplanting somebody on the Rangers Mt Rushmore and he's taking it by force. 

Edited October 28, 2023 by Sir Ulrich

[MAUFRAIS 6539]

Any questions Adolis isn’t an Adonis. He slides and his jersey has a six pack.

I don’t know. Ask his brother.

[gofuckyourself 8023]

This is unprecedented, and we're watching it. What a blast that game was.

The most concern I had was after the 7th, when Semien, Seager and Carter went down quickly. 

I still thought we just needed a base runner or two to get one more chance for the big bats.

Taveras walked of course, but the Heim walk in the 8th was massive.

It was a long AB. It got to 3-2 right away. Then Heim fouled off three straight. Heim didn't do much all game, and got abused by AZ's nightmare base runners, but that walk was huge.

One, it was off Ginkel who has been lights out. And hadn't walked anyone in 5 postseason innings and struck out 6.

Two, no runs that inning but it (and Garcia's seeing eye single just before) turned over the lineup.

It meant a 9th of Taveras Semien and Seager and not Jung Leody and Marcus.

And the Rangers had that one more chance.

Fucking baseball.

Game 2 motherfuckers.

Let's go Rangers.

[Sgt Hulk 13484]

10 hours ago, Fudbelty said:

This is pretty awesome too.
 

I would love to see the decimal meter on that swing. That was as loud as incan rememeber.  Would love to compare bottom 9 and bottom 11

[Quagmire 2139]

I mean to be down 2 in the bottom of the 9th to have Corey save us. Then to have Jose F'ing LeClerc come in and throw two great innings to hold the tie. Then to have it come down to El Bombi launching one that didn't even seem like it should've gone that long is just some storybook Hollywood type shit. What an epic night of baseball. 

Seems like a something normally would happen to us in this situation,gut wrenching loss in the 9th.

[ztejas 42744]

9 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

I love her. 

 

I like this one.

 

 

[dcar00 13861]

our pitchers got abused by the baserunners not Heim. huge jumps.  stealing is totally different now.

[EastTexan 662]

9 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

This call is great timing

 

 

That wry, nearly smile by Bochy, is classic.

[dcar00 13861]

2 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

Probably an unpopular opinion but I thought that was Bochys one horrible move all post season where he has been masterfully pushing the right buttons. It felt too much like an emotional (he loves Hedgie) to bring in a guy who has 0 post season ant bats and barely any all season and is just a clubhouse guy at this point and going for the story book ending. It was something dusty baker would do.

uh, he had to bat. Bochy pinch ran for Heim as the tying run on based. I think Bochy thought if we get to hedges(7th in the order at the time of the replacement) we've probably won the game anyway.  It wasn't a great move but I understand it a bit.

[Fudbelty 2765]

Probably an unpopular opinion but I thought that was Bochys one horrible move all post season where he has been masterfully pushing the right buttons. It felt too much like an emotional (he loves Hedgie) to bring in a guy who has 0 post season ant bats and barely any all season and is just a clubhouse guy at this point and going for the story book ending. It was something dusty baker would do.

You’re stupid. You’re truly stupid.

Bochy wasn’t going for a storybook ending. The mistake (if you want to call it that) was going for the tie in the 8th. Heim walked and we pinch ran Smith so that a ball in the gap ties the game. Bochy then only had one available catcher unless we burn our DH.

I swear there are people in this thread that have 0 baseball knowledge or ability to actually watch a game and comprehend what’s happening.

[Fudbelty 2765]

Best game ever.
The question I have is, especially after another horrible night at the plate (0-5), are we going to win the WS with Semien basically being non-existent all postseason? That’s promising because imagine if he was hitting even half as good as he did in the regular season.

Nope. Impossible. We’ll never win a game where he goes hit less. We’re fucked.

[dcar00 13861]

Just now, BeardIP said:

Yea so you don’t pinch run Heim, is the underlying issue

sure you can 2nd guess that but it had nothing to do with a storybook ending having hedges bat...good cover try though.

[dcar00 13861]

2 minutes ago, Fudbelty said:

You’re stupid. You’re truly stupid.

Bochy wasn’t going for a storybook ending. The mistake (if you want to call it that) was going for the tie in the 8th. Heim walked and we pinch ran Smith so that a ball in the gap ties the game. Bochy then only had one available catcher unless we burn our DH.

I swear there a people in this thread that have 0 baseball knowledge or ability to actually watch a game and comprehend what’s happening.

winning is hard, baseball is harderer

[DigDug 1637]

1 minute ago, BeardIP said:

Yea so you don’t pinch run Heim, is the underlying issue

It's a gamble, but when you get the tying run on that late in the game, might as well take a shot.  Jonah had caught every inning in the playoffs to that point and will catch the rest.  He doesn't have the wheels nor do you want him hurting himself trying to be something he's not.

Having said that, you would hope that Hedges could give you a better ab than flailing at three straight outside the zone as if it were his first time in the box.

[Fudbelty 2765]

It's a gamble, but when you get the tying run on that late in the game, might as well take a shot.  Jonah had caught every inning in the playoffs to that point and will catch the rest.  He doesn't have the wheels nor do you want him hurting himself trying to be something he's not.
Having said that, you would hope that Hedges could give you a better ab than flailing at three straight outside the zone as if it were his first time in the box.

But but but, STORYBOOK ENDINGS FOR HIS CLUBHOUSE GUY!!

[cmontexas 3207]

11 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

I’ll take my lumps for being baseball stupid here then because I was assuming too that you could move Garver to catcher and bring in someone for DH. Didn’t realize he was committed to having to bring in Hedges.

Only Ohtani gets to do that

[dcar00 13861]

As long as Garver is DH, Hedges really is only on the roster so we can pinch run for Heim and in case Heim gets hurt. 

[Pato del Muerto 51914]

1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

As long as Garver is DH, Hedges really is only on the roster so we can pinch run for Heim and in case Heim gets hurt. 

And to get 3 outs on the mound here and there. 

[AbeFroman 2020]

 

[MAUFRAIS 6539]

Hedges’ bad at bat was to set up the truly storybook hit later.

[AbeFroman 2020]

Repeats for the game gents, not for the series.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11486]

Awesome clip but it’s mixing some games together. GWB didn’t throw it out in the Jeter blast game. 

[mdmost 42167]

 

[Pato del Muerto 51914]

So that’s helo’s twix account?

[AbeFroman 2020]

Just now, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Awesome clip but it’s mixing some games together. GWB didn’t throw it out in the Jeter blast game. 

Screw me then, nice clip

[Firemans4Horn 16852]

24 minutes ago, EastTexan said:

That wry, nearly smile by Bochy, is classic.

[dcar00 13861]

16 minutes ago, DigDug said:

It's a gamble, but when you get the tying run on that late in the game, might as well take a shot.  Jonah had caught every inning in the playoffs to that point and will catch the rest.  He doesn't have the wheels nor do you want him hurting himself trying to be something he's not.

Having said that, you would hope that Hedges could give you a better ab than flailing at three straight outside the zone as if it were his first time in the box.

to be fair to Hedges those 3 pitches were going to be called strikes.  ESPN shows them all in the zone.

but yes, he had no chance.

[cmontexas 3207]

You guys are overlooking Hedges calming veteran presence and pitch framing in LeClerc's 2 innings

[Fudbelty 2765]

to be fair to Hedges those 3 pitches were going to be called strikes.  ESPN shows them all in the zone.
but yes, he had no chance.

Pitcher wanted no part of a storybook ending.

[Firemans4Horn 16852]

Adolis has hit 47 home runs and counting this season, 105 in his last 3 years and has made less than $3mn over that time. 
 

 

 

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2714]

12 minutes ago, mdmost said:

 

Chiiiiiiiiiiillls

[Herbie Hancock 7270]

I'm glad I was at the game last night and not at home and on here. Same goes for today. The regulars that have been here all season, even the ones I've sniped at, ain't bad overall. But you silly fucks that have just started showing up in the last 10-14 days are truly a goddamned beating. And yes I know Beard has been here under multiple usernames, but I thought we had that turd flushed with his last crowdsourcing. Need to fix that one.