For the first time since the season’s 10th day, Texas isn’t in control of the division lead.
“We are going to find out what we’re made of,” second baseman Marcus Semien said in an otherwise sullenly silent clubhouse. “It is anybody’s division. We’ve got to play our best baseball in the last month. Whoever does that is going to be standing at the end. We have to figure it out and get it rolling.”The bullpen has been this team’s biggest weakness since the first physicals of spring training, and it is now not even a coin flip to close out leads.
They had runners thrown out at second, third and home on Saturday. On Sunday, they didn’t take a base when they needed to.With no outs in the seventh, Ezequiel Duran wandered too far off second on Marcus Semien’s deep fly to center field. And then he couldn’t tag up. Corey Seager followed with what would have been a perfect sacrifice fly.
And, hey, if we’re passing out blame let’s not leave out the offense, which also appears to be fighting itself under pressure. The Rangers were 2 for 17 with runners in scoring position on Sunday. One of them was a big hit —They went 0 for 15 with RISP the rest of the way. Over the current 10-game stretch, they are 11 for 82 in those situations.
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