Lol of course that ball is a few inches short of being out. Can't help but laugh.

CJ really is pushing his new homerun call.

That's gone in most other parks

Gallen has a damn horseshoe up his ass tonight

These bloopers are comical at this point

Welp. Turning it off. Hopefully it brings them some luck and they come back from this *****

Man, there's some salt in the air on this board tonight.

This is what baseball is. It's why we still watch after all these years. The love and hate. If we lose the division lead, who cares. We'll keep playing. Tampa lost the lead but has started to get going again. Arizona was 16 over .500 and went on a massive 7-25 skid. 2017 dodgers had an 11 game losing streak.

Get into the playoffs and figure it out later. Playoff seeding is absolutely meaningless. We aren't going to fall apart.

Grant Anderson might as well start every count 2-0.

Absolutely some truth to this. Just get hot at the end of September, get in and go on a run; but it does suck to be staring down the barrel of losing the division lead when you've led it all season.

South Platte said:

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Man, there's some salt in the air on this board tonight.

This is what baseball is. It's why we still watch after all these years. The love and hate. If we lose the division lead, who cares. We'll keep playing. Tampa lost the lead but has started to get going again. Arizona was 16 over .500 and went on a massive 7-25 skid. 2017 dodgers had an 11 game losing streak.

Get into the playoffs and figure it out later. Playoff seeding is absolutely meaningless. We aren't going to fall apart.

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It almost feels like the baseball gods are ****ting us, then they're running out of toilet paper, so they rub their *******s on us, then they get some bloody diarrhea for good measure, and need to wipe on us again to clean up.

Astros won

Mariners won

Blue jays won

Can't get a break anywhere. Nothing positive.

It is an approach.

I know many of you keep talking about how hard we're hitting the ball.

There is an approach that sasy, "take what the pitcher gives you." If you keep hitt 100+mph right at players, maybe another approach might be to focus more on where the defenders are NOT, rather than knocking the cover off of it.

This goes back to the 3-outcome approach and Gallo... and likely why we have so many SO.

It is who Milwaukee is... it is how we've lost many of our games.

When we slow it down and "chip away" we have had success.

DallasAg 94 said:

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It is an approach.

I know many of you keep talking about how hard we're hitting the ball.

There is an approach that sasy, "take what the pitcher gives you." If you keep hitt 100+mph right at players, maybe another approach might be to focus more on where the defenders are NOT, rather than knocking the cover off of it.

This goes back to the 3-outcome approach and Gallo... and likely why we have so many SO.

It is who Milwaukee is... it is how we've lost many of our games.

When we slow it down and "chip away" we have had success.

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I actually looked up some of our chase-rate stats today and somehow they aren't as bad as I thought. Maybe they've been worse lately. I don't see how we don't rank near the bottom of the league. We are hacking away. Even in hitters counts we are swinging at anything near the zone.

It's our whiff rate on balls in the zone that is concerning. We have quite a few guys who just flat out miss balls in the strike zone, and that is less than ideal and concerning to me. That means balls are there to be hit and we're missing them all together.

alright, time to rough up their bullpen

The Rangers have now scored 6 runs over the past 34 innings (3 1/2 games).

Damn CJ. That was Dave Raymondesque on the excitement over Garcia's fly out to left that didn't even reach the warning track.

I know Garcia and Taveras have really cooled off. That being said, losing two all stars in the 5 and 6 hole in your lineup really hurts. Obviously Jung is out right now, but Heim might as well be also.

Any chance Jung is ahead of schedule?

Semien ropes it. Of course an amazing catch for the out.

Tough one. Garver missed 2 hanging sliders. Can't miss those

And now a needed day off to hit reset and to refocus.

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And now a needed day off to hit reset and to refocus.

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We just got one Thursday. I don't think fatigue is the problem.

Scoring only 3 runs total on 13 hits is actually very impressive, I don't think most teams could score that few amount of runs if they tried with that many hits.

Current offensive skids for Rangers:
García: 3 for 27 (his last 7 G)
Heim: 2 for 16 (6G)
Jankowski: 3 for 19 (7G)
Semien: 5 for 26 (6G)
J. Smith: 3 for 24 (9G)
Taveras: 3 for 22 (6G)

Lotta guys skidding at once.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) August 22, 2023

It's going from infuriating to comical pretty fast.

Not that I'm a super firm believer in some guy's inspirational talk in the clubhouse being the difference -- but it is worth noting that this is a team that it's been pointed out many times doesn't actually have a vocal leader. Seager/Semien are quiet leaders, and Scherzer basically likes to be left alone. Then you got a bunch of younger guys.

Basically you gotta hope Nate Lowe is gonna read everyone the riot act?

Grapesoda2525 said:

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Current offensive skids for Rangers:
García: 3 for 27 (his last 7 G)
Heim: 2 for 16 (6G)
Jankowski: 3 for 19 (7G)
Semien: 5 for 26 (6G)
J. Smith: 3 for 24 (9G)
Taveras: 3 for 22 (6G)

Lotta guys skidding at once.

— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) August 22, 2023

It's going from infuriating to comical pretty fast.

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Two things to this: 1) Seager isn't immune to this either, he's comes back hard from his heater a week+ ago; 2) these numbers are SO bad they aren't sustainable. Guys like Garcia might not get to his May level but it's not going to be this bad forever.

Proposition Joe said:

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Not that I'm a super firm believer in some guy's inspirational talk in the clubhouse being the difference -- but it is worth noting that this is a team that it's been pointed out many times doesn't actually have a vocal leader. Seager/Semien are quiet leaders, and Scherzer basically likes to be left alone. Then you got a bunch of younger guys.

Basically you gotta hope Nate Lowe is gonna read everyone the riot act?

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Really good point. The other day when Emily asked Seager about Section 133 and Corey's Corner all he has to say was "I don't know I got nothing for ya" and I'm sitting there like really dude?! Had such a chance to just latch on to the fan base. We need a guy with some emotion bad

Bochy may have to break a TV again

Several batters hit the ball really well last night. I think we're close to turning this around. We don't need 5+ runs every night to win with this staff.