Mr Gigem said:

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WTF is Lowe looking at???? Take the ****ing bat off your shoulder

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Lowe ought to be benched for the rest of the game for that atrocious at bat. Watched three straight over the plate and dint even move the bat

There's no way Eckers makes it through the offseason. Whatever this hitting approach is this season is the hottest garbage

I'm old enough to remember when we made fun of Houston for trading for this pitcher.

Mr Gigem said:

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There's no way Eckers makes it through the offseason. Whatever this hitting approach is this season is the hottest garbage

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Was he here last year or is he new?

gigem1223 said:

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At the game so can't see the zone well. Is Urena being squeezed?

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He was wild, but the second pitch to Caratini was a low fastball that was completely in the zone. A low fastball to smith about 6 inches lower and completely out of the zone was called a strike on the 1-0 to Smith in the next half inning.

I think this is his third year

Mr Gigem said:

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Mr Gigem said:

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WTF is Lowe looking at???? Take the ****ing bat off your shoulder

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Lowe ought to be benched for the rest of the game for that atrocious at bat. Watched three straight over the plate and dint even move the bat

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It's hilarious because we attack the first pitch a lot and seem to pop up a lot of very hittable 1st pitch fastballs. But we'll also just watch 3 hittable pitches in another at bat. I don't know what the philosophy is.

Right there. Jung watching a change up, middle low for strike three. You never throw a change up there. That was a mistake pitch that should have been hit 400+

I don't get it. Last night we could have had 4-5 more walks by simply not swinging the bat. Today they won't swing at strikes.

My word Adolis....

His ass needs to be benched. For a while.

Robbie Grossman is so good against LHP…

We are the most un-clutch team of all time. Seems like we never have a guy just rip a ball to grap for 2-out RBIs.

Biggest series of the season and thru 4 innings of each game, we have 0 runs put up in all 3 games.

**** this offense sucks donkey dick.

There are so many things wrong with this team.

First, Donnie Ecker isn't the hitting coach. That's Tim Hyers. So the whole offensive approach falls on him, including the lack of aggressiveness on the basepaths. He absolutely has to go.

Adolis Garcia does so much more harm than good in this lineup. He has become such an easy out in general, but particularly with runners on. And it is the same thing over and over again with him. Either he refuses to change his approach or the coaches are fine with it.

If Robbie Grossman is consistently in your lineup, you will have a losing season.

Adolis is Roogie 2.0. That being said he deserves a standing O at the ballpark the rest of his life for his heroics last season.

I laughed. I also feel Grapesoda's despondency.

These bats are so bad. Poor decisions, poor swings, poor contact if any is made which can put a ball in play - and it's been this way the entire season. I find it quite odd that the drop off has been so steep from last season to this season, and I wonder if the batting staff has done any work since the world series?

It's beyond explanation. This was being talked about before the season as maybe the best Rangers offense ever. Then the season gets here, we hack at everything, weak contact everywhere, and we are the opposite of clutch.

Looks to me like there is a lot of guessing going on at the plate, which Garcia being the biggest culprit

Seems like we aren't hunting a specific pitch when we get into hitters counts. We get ahead in the count and swing at anything in/near the zone.

I've 90% given up on this season. I'd be pleased with a .500 finish right now. I'm gonna try to enjoy baseball while we have it because it's a loooong off season.

Boch is a damn moron. Not sure how many times he needs to see Leclerc shut it down for an inning just to get smashed the next. It's happened all year.

Dubon just pulled his hands in and ripped an inside fastball in the gap with 2 outs to score a guy from 1st.. Have we had one guy do that all year? Even on a pitch right down the middle?

This team never game up last season and someone always seemed to step up when we needed it. I'm sure this team is fighting as hard as they can but just too many unexpected things happening. No one expected Garcia to be this bad. No one expected Heim to go from an all star to one of the worst catchers in the league. No one expected Carter to be out for basically a whole year. No one expected Jung to miss 70% of the season. No one expected that both Taveras and Duran wouldn't improve at all. Langford playing okay for a rookie but I think we all expect just a little more. I believe we had the best defense last year and now it's average at best. Just too many things not going our way this year. It is what it is.

I'm ready to not have to watch Leclerc ever again.

He's good for 1 inning, nothing more.

CampingAg said:

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It's beyond explanation. This was being talked about before the season as maybe the best Rangers offense ever. Then the season gets here, we hack at everything, weak contact everywhere, and we are the opposite of clutch.

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We had guys have career years last year. It's really that simple. Now, are some of the guys in the lineup as bad as they've been this year? Probably not, but what the offense was last year is not the norm for this group of guys.

I guess I'm at the point where I see so many bad things with this team that I don't think they have a chance in hell of doing anything this season. It's possible that they could go on a hot streak and sneak into the playoffs, but they have shown zero indication of that for almost five months. And if they do get in, how they expect to get past the teams in the AL is beyond me.

And Bochy is one of the best postseason managers I've seen, but his regular season managing isn't that great. He's stubborn and slow to react. I'm sure most of that is intentional though.

Heim and Garcia qualify for that.

Taveras is the same. Lowe is very similar.

Seager and Semien are paid to do what they did. Jung has been out all season. Langford wasn't on the team, Carter wasn't until September and LF before that was a black hole.

There is no DH on the team. Like we don't have one.

I think the career year stance only applies to two guys. But that very well could be enough to completely disrupt the whole lineup when you also take out what Jung and d Garver brought last year.

I see why Yordan doesn't play the field.

Alright. A little life here.

But Bombi will probably just SO.

Here's our chance!

With 1 strike, Taveras fights off a pitch that would have been a ball to wipe out a sure steal of 2nd by Garcia. Sounds about right for this team.