Anybody know where to find the radio calls of the game? I'm interested in hearing Nadel or Hicks call the Walkoff and Rowdy's HR

rbtexan said:

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Time to focus on next year, we're done.

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That walkoff was very similar to a Game 1 I remember one time. Let's skip Game 2 and go ahead and move to games 3 & 4 next.

"Hoffman's secondary pitch is his changeup, and he knows Tellez hits fastballs well so he's going to be leaning on that changeup quite a bit."

Yeah, Tellez got the same scouting report.

fc2112 said:

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rbtexan said:

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Time to focus on next year, we're done.

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Oh no, it's absolutely not fast. This team is going to die a slow, agonizing death - never quite completely out of it but never surging towards the playoffs. Hope I'm wrong, don't think I am

rbtexan said:

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fc2112 said:

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rbtexan said:

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Time to focus on next year, we're done.

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Oh no, it's absolutely not fast. This team is going to die a slow, agonizing death - never quite completely out of it but never surging towards the playoffs. Hope I'm wrong, don't think I am

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I keep thinking the same thing, but...

Fangraphs has them at a 25% chance of making the playoffs and that seems about right to me. Not fantastic but far from dead.

The Rangers have to flip the script in a major way the final month+ of the season if they want to get in and convince us they can do something. Not only from a winning games perspective but from a style of ball played perspective. Quit with the dumbass mistakes on the basepaths, stupid fielding blunders, put the ball in play etc. But they haven't done that this season outside of one home stand, so that's why we should still be skeptical. Doesn't mean we can't watch and not support, but they've shown us nothing that says they can consistently do it.

This team hasn't given up. rb might be right in that they may never truly figure it out, but we aren't dead yet. These guys don't want to pack up and go home. Play it out and see what happens.

Tksymm7 said:

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The Rangers have to flip the script in a major way the final month+ of the season if they want to get in and convince us they can do something. Not only from a winning games perspective but from a style of ball played perspective. Quit with the dumbass mistakes on the basepaths, stupid fielding blunders, put the ball in play etc. But they haven't done that this season outside of one home stand, so that's why we should still be skeptical. Doesn't mean we can't watch and not support, but they've shown us nothing that says they can consistently do it.

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Our best glimmer of hope is that Seager seems to be coming around and hitting the ball hard more consistently. Even Sunday when he didn't have a hit, he had a HR robbed for an out, a potential HR that was barely foul, and another well hit ball to CF for an out. He had been struggling and popping up a lot, but Seager hitting well is a big deal to this offense.

KT 90 said:

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Tksymm7 said:

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The Rangers have to flip the script in a major way the final month+ of the season if they want to get in and convince us they can do something. Not only from a winning games perspective but from a style of ball played perspective. Quit with the dumbass mistakes on the basepaths, stupid fielding blunders, put the ball in play etc. But they haven't done that this season outside of one home stand, so that's why we should still be skeptical. Doesn't mean we can't watch and not support, but they've shown us nothing that says they can consistently do it.

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Our best glimmer of hope is that Seager seems to be coming around and hitting the ball hard more consistently. Even Sunday when he didn't have a hit, he had a HR robbed for an out, a potential HR that was barely foul, and another well hit ball to CF for an out. He had been struggling and popping up a lot, but Seager hitting well is a big deal to this offense.

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Semien as well has been hitting the ball hard, right at people. At some point the ball will begin falling in.

Tksymm7 said:

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The Rangers have to flip the script in a major way the final month+ of the season if they want to get in and convince us they can do something. Not only from a winning games perspective but from a style of ball played perspective. Quit with the dumbass mistakes on the basepaths, stupid fielding blunders, put the ball in play etc. But they haven't done that this season outside of one home stand, so that's why we should still be skeptical. Doesn't mean we can't watch and not support, but they've shown us nothing that says they can consistently do it.

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Aren't the Rangers one of the best fielding teams right now?

Over the course of the year sure, but over the past few weeks we've seen some pretty bad mistakes that have resulted in runs.

I'm counting 8 errors since the all star break. I would be interested to see the true impact of those errors - how many lead to runs and/or lead changes, how many knocked a pitcher out of the game, etc.

Since the ASG, the Rangers are 52 when committing 1 or more errors in the game. 3 of those games were decided by 2 runs or less - 8/3 vs SEA (L), 8/6 vs NYY (W), 8/11 vs AZ (W)

Seems like most of the worst fielding errors have come from the Ranger opponents.

Now baserunning? That's been awful. Langford getting picked off due to brain farts and Heim just sucking at it per usual.

We also tend to only see what impacts us negatively, not what benefits us.

Last night, whoever the "ghost runner" was on 2nd base in extras for Arizona... On the ground ball to Jung there was absolutely zero excuse for him not to have made it to 3rd (either breaking as Jung came in to field as there's zero chance he could turn around and get a tag on him, or breaking as soon as Jung committed to throwing to 1st).

That blunder alone decreased their chances of scoring in that innings by 20%+.

Him breaking as soon as Jung threw to first would've been a mistake. Seager was already covering third by that time.

Breaking immediately would've been a really close play. I can understand staying and not wanting to take a runner out of scoring position in extra innings.

It would be seen as smart baserunning if he's safe. Bad baserunning if he's out.

Flounder Dorfman said:

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Seems like most of the worst fielding errors have come from the Ranger opponents.

Now baserunning? That's been awful. Langford getting picked off due to brain farts and Heim just sucking at it per usual.

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I still don't think that pickoff in LA is as egregious as its been made out. Obviously you can't let it happen, but you understand how it happened. The guy had already attempted two pickoffs and you had second stolen on the prior pitch if it wasn't fouled off. They attempted the third pickoff when nobody was expecting it. If they don't get you then you get 2nd base.

It's a risk that was worth taking, it just so happened to not work out.

Mr Gigem said:

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Him breaking as soon as Jung threw to first would've been a mistake. Seager was already covering third by that time.

Breaking immediately would've been a really close play. I can understand staying and not wanting to take a runner out of scoring position in extra innings.

It would be seen as smart baserunning if he's safe. Bad baserunning if he's out.

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Re-watched it and you're right that he would have been out if he broke as soon as Jung fielded it.

But freezing and then going once Jung committed to throwing and he's into 3rd fairly easily.

He still probably made the right decision to not advance. He had to have thought with the way the team had been hitting the ball all game, there's no reason to risk it because he'll probably get driven in with base hit from the next two batters. Thankfully that didn't happen

There was a dumbass DBacks fan sitting a couple rows in front of me that would clap obnoxiously loud and for a very long time after the play whenever AZ did something good. I made sure to give it right back to him when Burger hit the walkoff

Pederson

Lmao. Joc with the swipe.

What the actual **** is this umpire looking for?

So screwed there.

I'm so done with MLB umps. What the hell else do you want him to do? Just pumped in strike 3 and the ump chasing butterflies. Such garbage.

Gonna be fun to look at the ump score and see the runs he cost us, with ZERO consequence to the ump.

Need to be able to challenge balls and strikes like in spring training. Very upsetting missed call

I want every single call to be automated. Umpires are that bad and we have the technology to be perfect every time. It would help hitters and pitcher both to know the strike zone perfectly.

Dwb22 said:

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Need to be able to challenge balls and strikes like in spring training. Very upsetting missed call

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Isn't it all but guaranteed to happen next season? Which fans are against it? Seems like it was really popular in ST and in the AS game among the fans.

Tksymm7 said:

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I want every single call to be automated. Umpires are that bad and we have the technology to be perfect every time. It would help hitters and pitcher both to know the strike zone perfectly.

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About where I'm at. This isn't basketball where the calls are subjective. We have the ability to get every call correct in this sport. People who say they "like the human element" are just weirdos who don't want the players deciding the outcome of the game.

So close for Semien… maybe got it toward the end of the bat a little?

Man, Semien is barreling a ton of balls. Just can't get one to drop. Will take the sac fly though.

shack009 said:

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Tksymm7 said:

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I want every single call to be automated. Umpires are that bad and we have the technology to be perfect every time. It would help hitters and pitcher both to know the strike zone perfectly.

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About where I'm at. This isn't basketball where the calls are subjective. We have the ability to get every call correct in this sport. People who say they "like the human element" are just weirdos who don't want the players deciding the outcome of the game.

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Yeah. That excuse is so bad and tired. Someone should just say "I hate change of any type in life". There's no logic other than that.

Come on Rowdy!