I really didn't want the Mariners to win (so, yay!) but it does kind of stink for M's fans that they have actual baseball trauma now rather than their usual cloying, borderline arrogant brand of obnoxious self pity. That baseball trauma stuff scars your heart for a long time.

A, frankly, annoying Rangers season ended and I took some time to write about how it made me feel. It ended up feeling differently than I expected.

Leiter showing tonight why it will be cool to see the Rangers in October again someday.

At least I won't be forced to be dragged kicking and screaming into liking the 2025 Texas Rangers.

Jonah, Jonah, Jonah...

That felt quite playoff-esque which just goes to show my heart ain't postseason ready yet.

Jeff McNeil is going to be real embarrassed when he gets back in the clubhouse and sees that pitch was a strike.

Is it too late for Michael Helman to win the MVP?

My conclusion about this Rangers team being in a playoff race is that there are too many playoff spots. (which, yes, it will still amuse me if they get one)

Game so long my cable box hit me with the "You still there?" Thankfully the Rangers won.

Since Monday, the Rangers are zero for 27 with runners in scoring position. With an opportunity to score with a hit, the Rangers have had a no-hitter tossed their way.

The scouting report for Josh Smith reads: "If you throw any fastball letter high center of the plate you will get a swing and miss 100% of the time. His helmet will explode off his head in a fashion that will amuse everyone but Texas Rangers fans."

Heck of a win for the Rangers. I guess the key is to lose all of your best players?

Ketel Marte is so mad about that World Series, man. He's hit three home runs since August 2, all against Texas.

Joc Pederson had six RBIs total this season coming into the month of August. He has five tonight alone.

Nathan Eovaldi is the only thing I'll remember fondly about the 2025 Texas Rangers.

We didn't get the championship film we deserved, but this is even better www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVn2...

The only thing the 2025 Rangers do well is win Nathan Eovaldi starts and I kind of like that (and nothing else) about them.

The 2025 Texas Rangers when Beltre, Choo, and Elvis enter The Shed.

Nathan Eovaldi is at 130 innings as the Rangers play their 130th game, meaning -- for tonight at least -- his 1.73 ERA qualifies as the best in baseball by almost half a run.

A Beltre video package right into Shin-Soo Choo on the pregame? I miss those guys.

points at sign

Games like today just leave you wondering why it's been so so so so so so so so difficult for this lineup. You see Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Wyatt Langford, and Evan Carter all homering today and remember how talented they are but the lineup struggles to score more than two runs six times a week.

The Rangers are 3-8 since Vox Media switched over the Nu Lone Star Ball. :(

We're starting to reach "I feel bad for Sebastian Walcott" territory.

I miss the 2021 Texas Rangers.

For the first time this season, the Rangers hit a home run with runners on base.

As noted in the PGT: The Diamondbacks scored more with two outs in the ninth than the Rangers scored in six of the nine games during this homestand.

Yeah, your team has normal productive rallies and scores runs. Big whoop. They've done that for centuries. Baseball on baby mode. The Rangers, meanwhile, cook up every possible permutation of hits and baserunners in the exact sequence that strands as many as possible every inning. A work of art.

That was an insane at-bat from Rowdy Tellez.

Nathan Eovaldi has allowed one hit. The Rangers have had one inning total in which they haven't had a runner in scoring position. It's 0-0.

Those are the kinds of wins that keep you wired and watching highlights all night.

Redemption Night in Arlington

I would estimate that the Rangers have failed to do damage against around 20 pitches directly center square in this game tonight.

JOC JAMZ

It took Luis Curvelo, a longtime former Mariners farmhand, to finally finish off the Mariners. To beat the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park, you must become the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park.

Luis Curvelo has made me a fan for life.

Every time I've hear Rangers fans through the years like "oh the Mariners are so quaint and quirky those scamps I don't even see them as AL West rivals" when I've known all along that they're by far the most evil team in the division.

I'm honestly still more mad about those games in Anaheim. You can just straight up schedule baked in losses in Seattle.

While that sucked you'd be crazy to ever believe the Rangers would actually win a game there.

It really can't be overstated just how impressive Jack Leiter's raw stuff is. He's got a little Yu Darvish in him.

Joc's redemption!

The ump scorecard for this guy tomorrow is in danger of being brutal.

They're really out here trying to make me root for Merrill Kelly and Phil Maton? Well, I've done worse.

AJ Preller on the last day of the month every July.

Now I get that a Rangers starter with a 1.49 ERA into August sounds like laughable fiction, but I promise you, MLB, Nathan Eovaldi does actually exist.

That was a butt un-pucker-er from El Bombi.

The Rangers have scored a run(s) to tie or take the lead in the top of an inning five times in this series. The Angels have scored to tie or retake the lead in every single bottom of the next half inning. Every time. Most of them with two-out rallies. Infuriating.