{"id":187786,"date":"2025-07-19T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/187786\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:40:13","slug":"thoughts-on-a-2-0-rangers-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/187786\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on a 2-0 Rangers win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Thoughts on a 2-0 Rangers win &#8211; Lone Star Ball<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"sr-only link-skip\" href=\"#content\">Skip to main content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      clock<br \/>\nmore-arrow<br \/>\nno<br \/>\nyes<br \/>\nmobile<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"   alt=\"Detroit Tigers v Texas Rangers\" loading=\"eager\" data-upload-width=\"8115\" width=\"8115\" height=\"4851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2225014967.0.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Photo by Ron Jenkins\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"Jx5EWF\">Rangers 2, Tigers 0<\/p>\n<p>And the Texas Rangers are back to .500, baby!<br \/>\nThe Rangers had, by my count, lost their previous 7 games when they were one game below .500.<br \/>\nNow, I will admit, I would have hoped for a little more output offensively as part of getting back to .500.  That would have been nice.<br \/>\nBut we aren\u2019t going to nitpick such issues.  We wanted the Rangers to get back to .500, and they got back to .500, finally, and we are going to enjoy it, dammit, whether we want to or not.<br \/>\nPatrick Corbin continues to defy expectations.  5.2 IP for Corbin, and he allowed just three hits and two walks to the team with the base record in the American League.  He was at 92 pitches with two outs in the sixth when Bruce Bochy decided that he\u2019d rather have Shawn Armstrong face Spencer Torkelson, robbing Corbin of a chance at a Quality Start.<br \/>\nSpencer Torkelson.  The Tork.  Ol\u2019 Torkie.  Tork Tork Tork.<br \/>\nTorkelson.<br \/>\nThe Rangers had a whopping four hits on the day, half of them by Kyle Higashioka, who was DHing.<br \/>\nHigashioka\u2019s one out double in the bottom of the eighth set the stage for the Rangers\u2019 win.  He was lifted for Cody Freeman, who was making his major league debut, and Freeman scored on Corey Seager\u2019s two out double, as did Josh Smith, who had walked immediately prior to Seager coming up.<br \/>\nI may have mentioned this before, but Corey Seager is a bad man.<br \/>\nPatrick Corbin\u2019s sinker maxed out at 93.2 mph, averaging 91.3 mph.  Shawn Armstrong hit 94.9 mph with his fastball.  Chris Martin touched 95.6 mph with his fastball.  Robert Garcia\u2019s fastball reached 96.4 mph.<br \/>\nRowdy Tellez had a lineout to first base at 110.0 mph.  Corey Seager\u2019s double was 107.4 mph.  Jonah Heim had a 106.0 mph double.  Marcus Semien had a 103.2 mph ground out and a 100.8 mph fly out.  Kyle Higashioka had a 100.7 mph single.<br \/>\nNow lets get to above .500.  <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarball.com\/\" class=\"c-tab-bar__logo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/large_Lone_Star_Ball_Full.95930.png\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thoughts on a 2-0 Rangers win &#8211; Lone Star Ball Skip to main content clock more-arrow no yes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[196,2229,5,181,3243,4,967,149,3244,1567,69,3240,4644,2022],"class_list":{"0":"post-187786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-ball","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-lone","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-on","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-star","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-rangers","19":"tag-texasrangers","20":"tag-thoughts","21":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114879950027931204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}