In the DFW area, if you've heard it once you've heard it a thousand times; "I can't believe those Ranger's pitchers are that terrible". Well this is one night you heard it more than a thousand if you were at the ballpark because tonight was fireworks night at the ballpark, so not only were there more than a couple thousand people in the seats tonight (24,062 to be exact) but also most people stayed. What a night for fireworks, the Rangers get their ass kicked 12-3 (should have ended 12-0 but the Kansas City Royals took pity on us an unleashed their shitty pitcher parade) and the forecast called for a mild, rainy night. On this night you couldn't blame the hell on earth Texas summer jet stream for this pathetic outing. No the temperature at game time was in the low 60's, and although it didn't precipitate during the course of the game; it did rain hits for the opposing team. 19 to be exact. 3 home runs completely crushed. There are a couple of good things to point out though:
Starting pitcher Matt Harrison is only 23 years old and he did not quit out there (maybe that was the problem?). Give this kid some time and we might just have a good young pitcher on our hands that we can trade away for nothing.
This loss puts the Rangers 1 game under .500 which, considering the last few years, is an extremely strong start from this team.
The Rangers on paper did well putting up 12 hits themselves but weren't able to string much together (aka hit in the clutch) and only got 3 runs in garbage time on whom one Ranger announcer called the "worst pitcher in the league last year...statistically."
All-in-all most of us don't expect all that much from the Rangers this year, keeping this up while letting the younger players get some much needed experience while finishing somewhere around the .500 mark would be a good start. But for now the Rangers just lost to the Royals, and that is certainly not good.
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