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Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson has passed away at the age of 86 Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame third baseman and career-long member of the Baltimore Orioles, has passed away, according to a statement from the Orioles. Robinson was 86. Robinson debuted with the Orioles in 1955, at the age of 18, and spent parts of 23 separate seasons in the majors with Baltimore, with his final season coming in 1977. A cornerstone member of the great Orioles teams of the 60s and 70s, Robinson is considered arguably the greatest defensive third baseman of all time. Using Fangraphs...

Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Texas is in the driver’s seat, but it doesn’t mean they can’t still careen off the road We are in the final week of the 2023 regular season. Your Texas Rangers are currently sitting at 88-68, 2.5 games up on the 86-71 Houston Astros and 4 games up on the 84-72 Seattle Mariners. Texas is also a game up on the 87-69 Toronto Blue Jays, who are currently in the Wild Card 2 slot. Texas holds the tiebreaker against both the Mariners and the Blue Jays, so if they end the year with the same record as either Toronto or Seattle,...

Photo by Ron Jenkins/ A good week 2023 Season Record: 87-68 2023 Series Record: 28-18-2 Thanks to a fun week of baseball at home, the Rangers have sole custody of first place in the AL West and a magic number of 5. Boston Red Sox Series: Josh Jung and Adolis Garcia were both activated off the IL at the beginning of the series and proved to be a shot in the arm the Rangers needed. GAME 150: 2-4 Loss vs Boston Red Sox GAME 151: 6-4 Win vs Boston Red Sox GAME 152: 15-5 Win vs Boston Red Sox Seattle Mariners Series: The Rangers came into this series needing to win it...

Photo by Meg Oliphant/ The Magic Number is 4 The Texas Rangers scored five runs while the Anaheim Angels scored one run. For a quite a while there, it looked like the Rangers were heading for another one of those 1-0 Jon Gray outings where Gray carves up a team — a rarer sight in the second half, anyway — while the offense hangs him out to dry. However, after Angels starter Patrick Sandoval escaped poor command and wiggled out of multiple jams thanks in part to some bad BABIP luck for Texas, the lefty exited with an oblique issue in the top of the 4th. In the 6th,...

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/ Trying to reduce that magic number in Anaheim Texas Rangers @ Los Angeles Angels Monday, September 25, 2023, 8:38 PM CT (105.3 The Fan / BS Southwest) Angel Stadium LHP Patrick Sandoval vs. RHP Jon Gray Today's Lineups RANGERS ANGELS Marcus Semien - 2B Nolan Schanuel - 1B Corey Seager - SS Zach Neto - SS Robbie Grossman - LF Brandon Drury - DH Josh Jung - 3B Mike Moustakas - 3B Adolis Garcia - RF Logan O'Hoppe - C Mitch Garver - DH Randal Grichuk - LF Nathaniel Lowe - 1B Jo Adell - CF Jonah Heim - C Jared Walsh -...

Photo by Ron Jenkins/ Texas and Anaheim, on Monday night Texas Rangers lineup for September 25, 2023 against the Los Angeles Angels: starting pitchers are Jon Gray for the Rangers and Patrick Sandoval for the Angels. Texas starts their final road trip of the regular season, and begins a three game set in Anaheim against the Angels. Bruce Bochy has gotten a little wacky with the lineup, dropping Nathaniel Lowe to 7th and putting the Gross Man in the #3 spot against the lefty Sandoval. The lineup: Semien — 2B Seager — SS Grossman — LF Jung — 3B Garcia —...

Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Round Rock advances to the playoffs Round Rock beat Tacoma by a score of 11-6. That, combined with a Reno loss, means that Round Rock is the Pacific Coast League second half champion. They will play Oklahoma City, the first half champ, in a playoff series, with the winner going up against the International League champion. Zak Kent started for Round Rock and went 4.1 IP, allowing five runs, walking one, striking out two and giving up two home runs. Marc Church walked two in 1.2 scoreless innings. Justin Slaten...

Photo by Ron Jenkins/ Rangers 9, Mariners 8 Rangers 9, Mariners 8 A win! And a sweep! Woo hoo!!! An exciting, nerve-wracking win. And not to complain, but it would be nice if Texas could put up a couple of not so exciting wins. The type where there’s a big lead and the big lead is sustained all game. One or two of those early this week would be a good thing. Nathan Eovaldi’s velocity was down all day by about 2.5 mph on his pitches compared to his season average. He was not real sharp, but he managed to strike out six batters in five innings, due in large...

Photo by Ron Jenkins/ Be seein’ ya, The Shed Texas Rangers scored nine runs while the Seattle Mariners scored eight runs. *exhale * It didn’t have to be that difficult but the Rangers managed to secure the final outs required to finish off a sweep of the Mariners to elevate themselves to a 2.5 game lead in the American League West. The Rangers struck first on a lead off dong by Marcus Semien and then just kept hitting bombs. Six of them, in fact. That’s the most for Texas at The Shed since the building opened in 2020. But even with the fireworks and leads of 1-0,...

Photo by Ron Jenkins/ Saying sayonara to The Shed (for now?) Seattle Mariners @ Texas Rangers Sunday, September 24, 2023, 1:35 PM CT (KRLD 1080 / BS Southwest) The Shed RHP Bryan Woo vs. RHP Nathan Eovaldi Today's Lineups MARINERS RANGERS J.P. Crawford - SS Marcus Semien - 2B Julio Rodriguez - CF Corey Seager - SS Cal Raleigh - C Nathaniel Lowe - 1B Teoscar Hernandez - RF Josh Jung - 3B Jarred Kelenic - LF Adolis Garcia - RF Eugenio Suarez - 3B Jonah Heim - C Mike Ford - DH Mitch Garver - DH Ty France - 1B Leody Taveras - CF Josh Rojas - 2B Evan...

Photo by Roger Viollet Collection/ Jack Leiter makes his AAA debut Round Rock is currently tied with Reno for the best second half record in the PCL. Whoever has the best second half record plays first half winner Oklahoma City in the playoffs. Reno has the tiebreaker, so Round Rock needs to win Sunday and have Reno lose in order to advance. Jack Leiter made his AAA debut on Saturday. Leiter allowed three runs in 3.1 IP, striking out four, walking two and allowing a pair of homers. Grant Anderson struck out three and walked one in a scoreless inning. Alex Speas...

Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports Rangers go for the sweep Texas Rangers lineup for September 24, 2023 against the Seattle Mariners: starting pitchers are Nathan Eovaldi for the Rangers and Bryan Woo for the Mariners. Texas goes for the sweep against Seattle in their final regular season home game of 2023. Bruce Bochy rolls with the same group that won the first two games. The lineup: Semien — 2B Seager — SS Lowe — 1B Jung — 3B Garcia — RF Heim — C Garver — DH Taveras — CF Carter — LF 1:35 p.m. Central start time. Rangers are -125 favorites.

Photo by Ron Jenkins/ Rangers 2, Mariners 0 Rangers 2, Mariners 0 Ah, the stresses of a playoff race. And of close games in a playoff race. Jordan Montgomery was matched up against Logan Gilbert and was masterful, going seven shutout innings. Just five hits and two walks allowed by Montgomery, who struck out six. Montgomery mixed his pitches well, using his sinker, change and curveball in roughly equal amounts, while mixing in his four seamer from time to time as well. Seven swings and misses on his change, five on his curve, three ln his fastball. A terrific...

Photo by Ron Jenkins/ That’s a series win The Texas Rangers scored twice while the Seattle Mariners scored zero runs. There wasn’t a lot of hard hit balls from the Rangers tonight but they made ‘em count when they needed to. A two-out, cue shot off the bat of Mitch Garver in the bottom of the 2nd and a bloop from Jonah “The Kyle Seager of Rangers” Heim to plate a run in the bottom of the 4th were all Texas mustered off Logan Gilbert and the Seattle staff. The Rangers RBI singles were 65.8 mph and 63.2 mph — softest hit balls of the game for the Rangers—...

Photo by John Williamson /MLB Photos via A big game on David Dellucci day Seattle Mariners @ Texas Rangers Saturday, September 23, 2023, 6:05 PM CT (105.3 The Fan / BS Southwest) The Shed RHP Logan Gilbert vs. LHP Jordan Montgomery Today's Lineups MARINERS RANGERS J.P. Crawford - SS Marcus Semien - 2B Julio Rodriguez - CF Corey Seager - SS Teoscar Hernandez - DH Nathaniel Lowe - 1B Cal Raleigh - C Josh Jung - 3B Eugenio Suarez - 3B Adolis Garcia - RF Ty France - 1B Jonah Heim - C Dylan Moore - RF Mitch Garver - DH Sam Haggerty - LF Leody Taveras...