Pederson, in essence, explained that the Rangers needed to prioritize the small aspects of their offensive approach and establish better habits in an attempt to create large-scale changes. Hey, it\u2018s as good of a theory as any. <\/p>\n
It became a bit null and void, though, after Pederson fractured his right hand midway through Saturday\u2019s nightmarish 10-5 loss against the Chicago White Sox at Rate Field in which the Rangers fumbled that very minutia of competent baseball that he called for. It triggered a further fall from an escape from the ongoing funk that they\u2019re so helplessly trapped in. <\/p>\n
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The exit appears as far away as ever. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt sucks,\u201d left fielder Wyatt Langford<\/a> said. \u201cWe\u2019re at a pretty low spot right now I\u2019d say.\u201d<\/p>\n It may be their lowest. The six-game losing streak \u2014 the last of which was keyed by a hellacious sixth inning meltdown against a last-place team \u2014 has dropped them to three games below .500 and five games back of the Seattle Mariners in the American League West. They are only two-and-a-half games up on the last-place Athletics who, mind you, are housed in a minor league stadium. <\/p>\n Things are bad. <\/p>\n Bad, you\u2019ll find, can compound quickly. <\/p>\n Can a sense of panic do the same?<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not even thinking about it,\u201d Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to come out here and play the game. That\u2019s never going to change in our game.\u201d <\/p>\n He slammed his fist twice on the visiting manager\u2019s desk as if to emphasize the point. <\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to have games that suck and this one sucked,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re men. You tighten things up, put your big boy pants on and play.\u201d<\/p>\n Pardon the frustration. Saturday\u2019s game was ripe for it and the feeling has been in a state of escalation over time. Things unraveled in a miscue-laden sixth inning that was unequivocally one of the ugliest single frames of Bochy\u2019s three-season tenure. It included six runs, four hits, three walks, three pitchers, one official error, two unofficial errors and one disastrously blown lead. <\/p>\n Here\u2019s how it unfolded: <\/p>\n Left fielder Wyatt Langford and center fielder Sam Haggerty collided in left-center field to mutually drop a flyball from No. 9 hitter Austin Slater. Slater, a pinch hitter and the inning\u2019s first batter vs. left-hander Hoby Milner, reached third base on what was ruled a triple. \u201cWe ran into each other,\u201d Langford said. \u201cWe were both calling it. Neither of us heard each other.\u201d Third baseman Josh Jung bobbled a Chase Meidroth groundball and couldn\u2019t make his throw in time in the next at bat. Meidroth reached on an error. Six pitches later, second baseman Marcus Semien fielded a Mike Tauchman groundball and tried to tag Meidroth on his run from first to second. Semien missed the tag \u2014 which allowed Meidroth to reach second safely and Slater to score \u2014 and couldn\u2019t make his throw to first in time to get Tauchman out. It cut the Rangers\u2019 lead to 4-3 and left two runners on base. The Rangers replaced Milner (who did not record an out) with right-hander Jacob Webb. Webb let both inherited runners score on an Andrew Benintendi double before he allowed three of his own on three hits and two walks. It took right-hander Luke Jackson \u2014 the closer \u2014 to finish the inning. Even he walked the first batter he saw to load the bases before a Tauchman groundout mercifully ended it. <\/p>\n The White Sox, who\u2019ve scored the third fewest runs per game this season, led 8-4 when it was all said and done. Langford acknowledged that \u201cit really should\u2019ve been a 1-2-3 inning.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWe haven\u2019t done that,\u201d Bochy said. \u201cWe just couldn\u2019t get an out there. We gave them too many outs in that inning and that\u2019s one thing we haven\u2019t done \u2014 beat ourselves \u2014 and we did that inning.” <\/p>\n The self-immolation wasn\u2019t exclusive to that inning or the Rangers\u2019 usually stout defense. The lineup scored five runs on seven hits but left eight runners on base and was aided early by Chicago\u2019s own defensive miscues. The pitching staff issued 8 walks and allowed 14 hits. Right-handed pitcher Jack Leiter, who took a no-hitter into the seventh inning vs. the Houston Astros<\/a> in his previous start, walked five batters in five innings. <\/p>\n Bochy, before the game, warned and cautioned of a situation in which the team\u2019s offensive struggles bleed over into the defense and pitching sides. He doesn\u2019t believe that was the case in Saturday\u2019s loss. <\/p>\n \u201cThese guys won\u2019t lose their focus,\u201d Bochy said. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t happen. It just makes everything look worse when you have an inning like that.\u201d<\/p>\n There just isn\u2019t much good to observe at the moment. <\/p>\n He was struck by a 87.5 mph cutter from White Sox starter Bryse Wilson in the top of the fourth inning.<\/p>\n Carter was placed on the IL last Sunday after self-reporting his latest injury issue.<\/p>\n Find more Rangers coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Texas](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/35HC33WZMBHGLOXE3HVFIQBASU.jpg\")
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