Last night was the same as the other two games in this series. They got good enough pitching from Wandy Rodriguez and the bullpen, but the offense and defense were terrible once again. It has become a theme for this first month of the season. One that I am afraid will come to define this team if it continues. Last night they lost 4-2 to drop their overall record to 7-14 and their home record to 2-7. They are last place in the division and sinking fast. With they way that they have performed it should be no surprise that they only have won 7 games. Their infield defense leads the league in errors, their team BA is worst in the league by .013 points, and their bullpen has been good except for games when they have been needed to close it out. I will give credit to Jeff Banister, he is trying everything he can to change it. He has used I believe about 19 different lineups and has been more urgent in his bullpen usage, but to this point nothing has worked. Every game looks and feels the same. They get runners on base but cannot get enough hits to get them home. Prince Fielder will get on base with a single, but in the process kills the rally because he cannot go more than one base at a time. The Rangers will come close to a big home run but the ball will die on the warning track. Every game the same things happen. This could be just one of those transition seasons where the best players are all in the minor leagues, but are not ready to be promoted yet. Players like Joey Gallo, Jorge Alfaro, Nick Williams, and Lewis Brinson. They will be ready next season, but for this season they don’t want to waste their service time on a team that will likely finish last regardless of what those players would do. I know this is late anyways. That is all I will say about last night’s game. Hopefully May will look a lot better than April. At least we have a Josh Hamilton return to the Rangers to look forward to. No game today, they get back in action tomorrow night against the Oakland A’s at 7:05 p.m.

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