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Hi and welcome to another edition of Right
on Rangers Live coming at you in the
bottom of the eighth inning.
Rangers lead this one 6-1.
Bats came to play today.
You have a number of positive things to
talk about from the offensive side.
You have Ezequiel Duran multi-hit, Danny Jansen
multi-hit, Alejandro Osuna multi-hit, Jake Burger
with a bomb against a righty.
A lot going well for Texas on that
side of the ball and pitching wise only
one earned run allowed.
Tyler Alexander getting into a little bit of
trouble here.
One out with a runner on third base
from Minnesota.
He is going to pump strike 193 right
at the knees to Clemens who is one
for three on the night.
Hope you're having a good Saturday.
We did a Rangers, excuse me, a Longhorns
Live earlier today.
We are back for round two, game 161.
Crazy that we started man back in honestly
February going through spring training games and here
we are late September.
Two games, less than two games left in
the season.
That has been quite the journey and it's
fun to see the Rangers in a spot
where no they don't control their own destiny
but at very least you have a shot.
You're playing meaningful baseball in September.
That has not been the case the last
two years.
I'm appreciative of the journey.
It hasn't always been what I would like
it to have been.
Could have done with a little less sweat,
a little less worry and anxiety, a little
bit more easy breezy.
That has not been the Rangers in 2026
but if they win today and Houston loses
tonight, the Rangers could be in first place
going into Sunday.
That is a crazy concept when you consider
some of the lows that this team has
had over the past two months.
Tyler Alexander two outs now.
He retires Cody Clemens.
Josh Bell stands in the way.
Strike one on the outside corner.
Appreciate all you guys hanging out.
Cosmic, I do like the Stars but just
very casual with the hockey.
I like watching hockey.
I enjoy hockey but just not a sport
I grew up with and so in terms
of deep analysis X's and O's, I'm probably
not the best guy for hockey.
I try.
I'm definitely trying to learn more and get
into it but I would say very casual
hockey fan at this point.
Love playoff hockey.
Man, the all-star, what was it, the
new all-star format they came out with
with the countries, that was fire and then
honestly you know anytime you got the countries
facing off whether it's the Olympics, whatever the
case may be, I think it's legendary.
So hockey fan but not on any kind
of expert level at this point.
Let's see, what do we got?
TikTok.
Doug Deuce, what's good?
Yeah, we were talking about the Cowboys playing
in Rio tomorrow and that field does not
look good.
Looks like they have got like the 24
-hour fertilizer out there just trying to make
something happen at this point.
Kind of crazy and it is good to
be hanging out with all you guys whether
you're watching on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok.
Thank you for the support of the show.
We are sure hoping the Rangers can finish
this one out.
Laser to center, Evan Carter can't quite make
the play.
Oh, it was in the glove it looked
like.
It's gonna go down as a single for
Josh Bell.
The twins do make it a 6-2
ball game.
Man, Evan Carter almost made an outstanding play.
Looked like he had it in the glove.
He kind of hesitated.
Did he stumble?
It was like a weird stumble hesitation.
I really thought he was gonna be able
to make this play.
Look, it was going to be a great
play.
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like
Evan missed out on something routine here.
That would have been a phenomenal play if
Evan would have been able to glove that.
Looked like a stumble, a hesitation.
Not sure exactly what it was but the
twins will add a run.
Now Jenkins comes up for a lefty on
lefty matchup.
Beautiful pitch by Tyler.
Yeah, let's get a little challenge DJ.
DJ with the assertiveness behind the plate with
the challenges today.
I know Evo challenged one earlier but that's
Evo.
DJ has actually been on it with challenges
and he wins another one.
For all the crap Danny Jansen gets with
his ABS yeses and no's behind the plate,
he is doing his thing.
A YouTube comment here says congratulations Texas.
Today, it's a good win today.
Thank you so much for the comment.
It's definitely congratulations for at least a few
hours.
Let's see how Houston does.
Man, would it be special if the A's
could just do us a solid and win
tonight?
Oh, I'm not gonna get ahead of myself.
We still gotta win this ball game here
in the top of the ninth, bottom of
the ninth but and I'm already starting to
dream.
I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
I'm already starting.
I know dumping.
I know.
I'm trying to hold myself back right now.
I'm trying.
Go A's indeed Carlos.
We keep going.
Matt, appreciate you man.
Can we get by without using Latz and
save him for three innings tomorrow?
Very ideal Matt.
Great minds think alike.
I had the same thought.
That's why I was a little bit disappointed
Evan wasn't able to get to that one.
Not because it was a routine play.
Just because and if you do make that
catch and you go to the ninth inning
up 6-1, I do think you feel
a lot better about the wiggle room not
using Latz.
Maybe in that case going Jordan Montgomery.
They might still go Jordan Montgomery anyways.
I wouldn't hate the move.
I do think a four run lead there's
going to be a lot more scrutiny if
it doesn't go well.
If you don't pitch Latz here.
Ah, yep.
I think it's going to be an interesting
call.
That's for sure.
Fresh Latz for tomorrow would be ideal.
Very ideal.
Ethan, what's good man?
Yeah, look, you know I'm going to be
talking about my boy Alejandro Osuna.
You know it.
A multi-hit performance from him tonight.
Almost had a home run.
Almost hit home run number two of the
season.
They realize they could have had that guy
in the lineup all year long, right?
They get that.
Just want to make sure we're all clear
here.
This guy could have been hitting for you
all season long, but I digress.
Alejandro Osuna with a 262 average.
Man, where is that on the leaderboard for
the Rangers right now?
Foscue is hitting 272.
You got Zeke Duran at 262.
Feels like he's top three right now.
Nimmo's at 260.
Now I know Osuna doesn't qualify, but man,
you might just think, you might have a
crazy thought that a guy with the top,
I would say top three batting average right
now on the team, you might think that
that type of player would be a little
bit more useful at the major league level.
For whatever reason, the Rangers don't see it
that way.
What do we know?
What do we know?
Look, Evan Carter having a great day today.
God bless him.
He needs it.
Two for four.
Had a bloop hit.
Had a laser that went into the gap
early on in this one.
That really got the party started.
Man, the doubles parade in that first inning.
That was very good to see.
Extremely good to see.
He actually had that, excuse me, in the
second frame.
That was the top of the second four
spot to go up four one after the
twins made it one nothing.
And we all know how the Rangers do
when they don't score first.
It's not an ideal scenario as Wyatt Langford
pops up here.
Wyatt had a nice base hit earlier and
then quickly took a step backwards with getting
thrown out at third base.
He kind of hesitated on the base paths
on a ball that was errantly thrown, that
caromed back all too nicely to Minnesota.
Still, Wyatt hesitates a little bit.
Makes the third out at third base.
Cardinal sin in baseball, of course.
Wyatt is having a tough time catching breaks
right now, that's for sure.
In his other ABs, he does have a
couple of strikeouts, a couple left on base.
Payton Gray throwing right now.
Okay.
He, I don't know.
And I love Payton Gray.
I don't know that I am interested in
Payton Gray throwing in this ball game.
Peyton, I love you.
No, nothing personal.
I don't know that I am wanting Peyton
Gray to come into this six to two
game at this point.
I'm okay with, with a lot of different
scenarios.
I don't know a Payton Gray coming in
is my favorite, but you know what?
He'll probably do just fine if he does
come in.
I'm probably just being irrational.
That is what late season baseball does to
you.
But I would have thought Montgomery or Lats
are kind of the two guys.
I'm not sure Gray coming off of the
IL.
I know he's been around for a few
days.
He's been activated.
Seager looks like he's going to go down
on strikes here.
Two down.
Not, not my favorite.
Not my favorite.
Let's see.
Comment from YouTube here.
I love Osuna.
It's so tough because Nicky feels like a
higher upside version of him.
I think we need some Osuna bats if
we want a chance at a series in
the postseason.
Like my biggest thing, and I don't want
to get on a crazy Osuna soapbox.
I mean, let's see how the game unfolds.
Let's see where the wind takes me here.
But I'll say this Chris Young went on
105.3.
And you know, he does that from time
to time.
Right.
And he said that the hot hand was
going to play essentially.
You're playing a lot of guys that aren't
hot.
I mean, look, if we're going to go
that direction, Wyatt Langford shouldn't be playing.
If you're playing the hot hand and you
could bench Wyatt and put in Alejandro right
now, it's not going to make a big
difference.
It's not.
If you play Wyatt Langford off the bench
tomorrow, you can still get them in the
game.
I don't think it's going to make a
huge difference with how poorly he's playing.
Looks like it's going to be Latzy coming
into the game.
Yup.
Latzy you'll be in.
Okay.
There's our answer.
Look in all seriousness, Latzy is going to
be available tomorrow.
Anyways, it would have to get really bad
today.
You know, you're hanging on by a thread
winning a six five game.
I'm not trying to speak this into existence
by the way, but you would just hope
that this is a fairly quick inning.
And I do think that you're going to
see him pitch tomorrow anyways.
So I don't think him pitching today means
he's unavailable.
Yeah.
I'm with you on this.
As long as we don't see a 25
pitch plus inning, we'll knock on wood.
I even hate to speak it out loud,
but at the same time, I do think
the analysis here is correct.
If you can avoid a 20, 25 pitch
inning, something like that, I think you're going
to be okay.
Hey, what's good, brother?
How are you?
Wyatt been bad comment from Facebook here.
Why it's been bad.
And him with Corey at the top of
the lineup, just terrible.
Like I said, I think you could bench
Wyatt Langford tomorrow and play Osuna and it
really wouldn't make a big difference.
Now that takes guts.
That takes a little bit of an uncomfortable
decision, but Wyatt Langford is not hitting right
now.
And he's not really playing amazing baseball either.
A lot of strikeouts, some questionable decisions out
there.
The mental side of it.
I don't think a lot of Rangers fans
would complain if you did it either.
I know there's some people that have gone
back and forth with me about Osuna nearly
all season.
I don't even know if they would be
complaining if we benched Wyatt Langford in the
last game of the season.
Not to say you can't bring them on
to pinch hit.
You can't bring them on later like the
Rangers do with literally every bench player anyways,
but that would be me, Ethan.
I would love to see it.
Comment from YouTube says a Langford banger incoming.
Sure.
Hope so.
Look, I have been so clear and some
people, you know, the, the casuals, the right
on Rangers casuals just don't get it.
If Wyatt Langford goes off, if he needs,
if he needs right on Rangers, harping on
him a little bit to go off, I
am more than happy to eat crow.
You guys don't even understand.
And a lot of the casuals don't understand
either.
I would gladly eat crow.
I don't shy away from any take.
We're not deleting bad takes.
You're not going to get them right.
A hundred percent of the time.
You definitely not.
But I will say this right now, why
it, and the numbers that he has given
you, you're not going to get a whole
lot worse play in Osuna than Wyatt Langford.
If at all, we keep rolling.
Appreciate all you guys hanging Latzy quickly.
Oh two on Martin here, Martin two 32
average.
And on the day, first day be here,
pinch hitting for road in the left fielder.
Lats.
He has asked, been asked a lot over
the last month of the season.
And with all the injuries mounting up, it
is definitely understandable.
Latzy going to get a big strike three
call here through a pitch middle in and
froze Martin.
That was a pretty good pitch to swing
at Martin, not ready for it.
Probably looking off speed pitch change up there.
Maybe instead he gets the heater Latz off
to a good start here.
We keep going.
Appreciate all you guys.
Hey, patience.
What's good.
Comment from X let's go.
Indeed.
Thanks for hanging out, man.
Appreciate all the support, all the comments, brother.
Thank you so much.
Seriously.
Every player is absolutely available tomorrow.
Comment from YouTube there.
Ethan totally agree.
It's all hands on deck.
You got to make it now tomorrow just
to all be on the same page here.
The Astros game tomorrow is at two Oh
five in the Rangers play at two 10.
So I love that you have them playing
side by side.
You don't have the Astros, you know, able
to really take any time off.
I love that.
You know, you, you don't have a case
where the Rangers play earlier than this and
then the Stroh's can kind of rest easy.
If the Rangers lose, I love that each
team has to play simultaneously.
Astros actually start a little bit before Texas
does.
That is an ideal setup for the Rangers.
I don't think that's an ideal beneficial setup
for the Astros.
I think it definitely benefits Texas that you're
playing at the same time and you're forcing
the Astros to actually have to win a
game there.
Absolutely.
Keep on going, man.
Drop a comment, drop a question.
We're finishing out the bottom of the ninth
inning here.
Two, two pitch from Latz is fouled off
by Royce Lewis.
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We're hanging out, talking ball, hopefully talking about
a Rangers win.
Latzy going to set and fire here.
Nice pitch by Jacob.
Pulled the string there.
Lewis able to go down and get it.
He fouls it off 99 off the bat.
Got a little beat on it.
Here we go.
Lats over his last several outings.
You know, it's definitely been a little bit
up and down for him lately.
Again, maybe the usage playing into that a
little bit, but not tonight as Latz gets
his second strike out of the inning.
He gets a foul tip.
Royce Lewis, nice change up pitch on the
outer edge and Lewis tips it right into
the glove.
That'll work.
Danny Jansen squeezes it and we are down
to the twins final out here.
Pitch one Latz quickly.
Oh one.
Hey, what's good Instagram.
Thanks for hanging out.
I see a bunch of y'all.
Let me get to the comments here.
He Latz is definitely CW.
Appreciate you.
Lats has definitely been a little over pitch.
He's pitching well tonight.
J40.
Who do I think gets the start tomorrow?
I think it is a Gore.
Isn't Gore lined up for tomorrow?
Maybe they haven't announced it.
I think they pulled back, but I thought
that I had heard rumblings.
It was going to be Gore, but in
all seriousness, it's all hands on deck tomorrow.
Like it could be Gore, but that doesn't
mean he's going to be lasting for very
long.
I mean, I think he is.
Anybody that pitches tomorrow is going to have
an extremely short leash, extremely short.
Lats one and two count Minnesota down to
their final strike.
Lats at 14 pitches so far, and he
is going to try and send Texas back
to the hotel happy tonight and an all
important ultimate game one 62 lined up for
tomorrow.
Man, it would be sweet if you could
get a little bit of help from the
A's tonight and then tomorrow you control everything,
everything.
There's a pitch, another foul, and we'll do
it again.
Yes, soldier.
I'm with you on this comment here from
YouTube.
I don't like not controlling your own destiny.
That's why it was just so painful.
What happened to them when they did take
advantage and they had the division lead towards
the beginning of the week?
I don't know how Caratini laid off that
man.
That was a very nice pitch by Latz,
a nice change up at the bottom below
the zone, just beneath the zone.
No fishing from Victor Caratini twins catcher Latz.
That's strike three fire up the I like
Texas music.
Hello, win column.
The Rangers pull ahead in the AL West
by a half game.
And we will now turn our attention to
the Houston a series to the A's game
later tonight, but for at least a few
hours we are in first place and the
Rangers hope to last through the night into
tomorrow with that first place lead going into
game one 62 tomorrow, the Rangers with a
massive response after an embarrassing loss on Friday
night, Texas gets the six to victory.
Jacob Latz slams the door and we have,
we're going to have a great post game
show for you guys, man.
We got so much good stuff to talk
about.
Always more fun to be hanging out with
y'all after a win like this.
No doubt, Garrett.
Yes, you do have to be happy about
this win.
Comment from X there.
Yes, you do.
Look, I definitely understand.
There are some mixed emotions about this team.
There's some mixed emotions about this team.
Y'all.
I totally get it.
I know that some of you guys have
been hurt way too many times by this
ball club in 2026.
I hear you, but look, we, we have
an opportunity here.
Everything in front of the Rangers.
You need a little bit of help.
You need a little help, but you win
today.
You seal it with the win tomorrow and
we're in business.
You never know what can happen when you
get into the dance Rangers one game away
from getting back to October for the first
time since 2023.
Can we please get an A's win tonight?
Please.
My goodness.
The A's terrorized us all season long.
Do us a little bit of a solid
tonight, please.
Please.
I can't even believe the Rangers are in
this spot.
I did tell you guys a couple of
weeks ago, a couple of people cornered me
a little bit on the show.
Are we making the playoffs or not Austin?
And I said, yes, I have no cutting
edge analysis, no cutting edge analysis to give
you this season has just been so incredibly
weird and nonsensical.
The Rangers are going to find a way
to make it in.
And so far so good.
We don't control our destiny, but the Rangers
doing their part, at least for one day,
who knows what could happen tomorrow, but at
least for one day, the Rangers do their
part.
We got to enjoy it.
Have to enjoy this one.
I will say this, some Astros fans that
stop by the show every now and then,
like, like I said to you guys about
a week ago, some fans that I, I
respect that can't be said of all Astros
fans, but I had a few Astros fans
stop by and tell me in so many
words, man, you guys have a shot.
We do not play well against the A's
and I, to which I said, we do
not play well on the road.
So it is not a foregone conclusion that
the Rangers are going to go up to
Minnesota and crush it either.
Hopefully those sentiments will come true tonight and
or tomorrow.
You don't know what this team is capable
of.
If they can just get it in.
I see a lot of people, a ton
of fans thinking they already know what's going
to happen when you get into October.
I dealt with it a bunch today.
Oh man.
Even if they make it, they don't have
a shot, the pitching, their injuries, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah.
Oh, did you not pay attention in 2023?
Did you not pay attention that this team
going into the 2023 playoffs?
Most Rangers fans said they were dead in
the water.
And if you didn't, you're not being honest
when this team lost three out of four
in Seattle, limping into the playoffs, got on
a cross country flight to play a really
good Tampa Bay team.
You did not have a lot of Rangers
fans inside.
I don't care what they were saying outwardly.
You didn't have a lot of fans expressing
a ton of confidence in the club, myself
included.
I was not sitting around in 2023.
After we dropped that game on Sunday and
you watch the Astros pop the champagne, celebrating
an AL West division title.
I was not feeling great about the chances
that the Rangers had to run it all
the way to the world series and win
it.
So everybody that thinks they've got it figured
out, Oh dude, it's not even worth it.
Why do you even, what are you even
going to do in October?
You don't have it.
You don't have any pitching, the injuries, Jung
is out.
What have you learned from 2023?
Apparently nothing.
Because if the Rangers find a way into
the playoffs, you don't know what is going
to happen.
Is it likely they win it all?
Probably not.
Can it happen?
Yes, absolutely.
Anything can happen.
I would love to see Texas just get
a shot and then don't let them get
hot.
Remember 2023, do not let this Texas team
get hot in October.
It doesn't make sense.
I'm not saying that it does, but do
not let this team go on a run
like they did in 2023.
We keep rolling Alex.
Yes, sir.
TikTok comment.
Oh, soon.
We love Alejandro Osuna on the show.
And you know, it's just a complete shock
that he gets a chance to hit in
the lineup today and coast two for three,
completely bewildering that a guy who has the
top three batting average on the team would
come in and be productive when given the
opportunity.
Absolute shocker.
Like I said, to open up the show,
they realized that they could have played this
guy in the lineup more than the 40,
50 games, whatever it is that they gave
him, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Could have for whatever reason they would rather
give it to guys that have been slumping
for the past month, month and a half.
And, you know, God bless Wyatt Langford.
God bless Evan Carter and all these, all
the other guys that are playing currently.
And it feels like Osuna probably could have
gotten a few more ABs with the amount
of struggles that we've seen out of certain
players down the stretch.
Brian, what's good, my guy.
Thanks for hanging out.
It's coming down to one 62.
Nothing like it.
Nothing like it.
I missed this.
I got to be honest with you guys.
The last two years, 24 and 25, just
painful.
I mean, some of you guys were hanging
out with me when I was doing my
lives and we did our live shows to
the bitter end in 2024 the whole month
of September.
We were talking about a for next year,
for next year, all September long in 2024.
Then in 2025, we actually had the little
rascals run and it felt like there was
a shot.
And then we got our hearts ripped out
in Houston with Merrill Kelly deGrom and company,
soiling the bed down at the trough.
Now maybe it was Daikin at that time.
Who cares?
You definitely did not have the season coming
down to game one 62, the last two
seasons.
And for that, I am thankful.
We might get our hearts ripped out tomorrow,
but that is why we love this game.
I'd rather get my heart ripped out in
game one 62, then watch a whole month
of basically meaningless baseball.
And I hope you can agree, or at
least appreciate the sentiment.
I'd much rather watch games where you actually
have a shot at something, then try and
figure out different angles of how we can
make a month of baseball.
That really doesn't matter for the purposes of
the post season.
More interesting.
Rangers giving themselves an opportunity.
A minute made.
Yes, sir.
Daniel, appreciate the correction on that.
Y'all always keep me sharp.
You keep me honest.
I know some of y'all translated.
I appreciate those that did.
Who pitches tomorrow?
I'm waiting for the notification.
I've got notice on.
So if one of the beats will drop
that news within the next 2030 minutes, that
would be much appreciated.
I think it's going to be all hands
on deck.
Zach, good to see you, by the way,
man.
TikTok comment there asking who pitches tomorrow.
I think it's going to be Gore.
And I would imagine Montgomery is going to
be in the mix.
I think even of all the they might
throw of all the tomorrow.
I think it's all hands on deck.
I really do.
Yeah, I don't think anybody is off the
table tomorrow.
Even Evo.
I don't think they want to have to
throw Evo, but I think they would throw
Evo if they had to.
You got to be careful there.
Clearly, if he's dealing with some kind of
issue and it's going to create more of
an issue, don't do it.
But I would say even the guys that
threw today, even of all the probably available.
Rob, appreciate that comment.
Comment here from YouTube.
I won't be heartbroken.
Regardless, I've just enjoyed ball of late for
the most part.
They've had some stinkers.
Don't don't get it twisted.
The Rangers have had some embarrassing games.
Look no further than 24 hours ago, an
embarrassing 10 to 2 loss.
But you definitely have noticed a little bit
of a shift over the last two or
three weeks.
Do they you know, does does the team
that we watched really kick it around rear
its ugly head from time to time?
Yeah, last night again, a great prototype of
that, but it feels like the vibes have
shifted a little bit.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend
and be disingenuous like it's some 180 degree
turnaround, but it definitely feels like the vibes
are a little bit different with the club.
They still have not taken the bull by
the horns quite enough for my liking.
But they're here.
They've got an opportunity.
We keep rolling.
Yeah, keep a keep Texas.
Yeah, we need the Astros to lose tonight.
Preferably if we can get the Stroh's winning
the Stroh's losing tonight, the Rangers would be
in first place.
And then you really want to win the
game tomorrow.
But if you both lose tomorrow, the Rangers
would still go.
Houston would need a win tomorrow if they
lose tonight in order to have a shot.
We keep rolling.
Thank you so much for all the comments
so far.
You guys already know I've got plenty of
ammo to unload here in our conversation over
the next 30 minutes or so.
Look, this game to me was an actual
response.
Yesterday, Texas got embarrassed, punched in the mouth,
never responded.
They scored those two runs early on and
then just went home with their tail between
their legs for the final eight frames.
Texas answered immediately tonight after Minnesota went up
one, nothing.
And it was a beautiful thing to see
the bottom of the order, the bottom of
the freaking order with the one with three
or four doubles in a row, whatever it
was like that.
That is the weird stuff that you need
in these crazy late season runs.
You need weird stuff like that.
The bottom of the order gets hot tonight.
You look at the box score.
The Rangers got six hits from the bottom
of the order.
Seven, if you include Nicky Lopez, who was
sitting in the six hole, when you get
seven hits from six through nine, you're not
going to lose a lot of ball games.
Seven, eight, nine, though, tonight were a combined
six for 11, six for 11 with four
RBI.
Is that good?
It's asking for a friend here.
Six for 11 with four RBI from the
bottom of the order.
Danny Jansen, Evan Carter, Alejandro Osuna doing a
job.
Osuna almost had his second homer.
They're showing the replay right now.
Man, he almost got that one.
I thought he did.
I thought that ball was gone and it
almost was good stuff from the bottom, man.
And now if we could just get the
top half doing their thing, imagine you could
just get Corey Seager and Wyatt Langford and
all these guys tearing the cover off the
ball again.
And you know what?
The thing I like as well about this
game, they didn't call it a day after
that four run second inning, right?
How many times have we seen them score
in the first or second frame and then
literally never score again?
It happened last night.
It's happened multiple games over the past two
weeks.
You had Texas tack on in the fourth.
They tacked on in the fifth.
That to me is the thing that I
like.
One of the things I like the most
about this win, I'll say that.
You had them continue to add and that
has been missing at times this season.
Look, I don't think we can go too
much further without showing some love to big
game Nate.
We talked about Nitro last night.
We needed at least four or five innings.
I said five.
I think I was getting a little greedy
talking about six innings from Evo, but we
got four innings of one run ball from
Eovaldi and that was huge.
We needed that length and four hits, two
walks, not as cleanest, not as sharpest performance,
but nevertheless, he gave us the length that
we needed in this one to get it
to the bullpen.
I think he might be available tomorrow.
I know he threw a number of pitches
today.
I think he'll be available tomorrow if needed.
I don't see them shelving him.
If you need Nathan Eovaldi to go in
and win you a game tomorrow, you do
it.
You absolutely do it.
Swoled your comment here right on cue with
the Evo discussion.
I saw some people complaining that Evo didn't
go longer.
Totally agree with you here.
Comment goes on to say, you have to
remember this is his first time starting.
Thank you.
Who's complaining that Evo didn't go longer, dude?
I mean, read the room here.
I don't even think he's supposed to be
starting.
I mean, I hear you.
Would we all have loved for Evo to
go six or seven frames today?
Yes, but the dude was going to be
in the relief, middle relief.
That was the plan.
I feel like this start today is probably
not what they wanted to do, but they've
got no choice with the season on the
line.
I think Eovaldi gave you exactly what you
needed.
You needed somebody to get at least four
innings, maybe five if possible, and that's what
you got from Evo.
I think we have to talk about Robert
Garcia though.
This is a guy that has absolutely been
criticized left and right, myself included at times.
I'm not going to sit here and I've
been Robert Garcia's hype man for his two
years as a ranger, but I have been
a very big time Robert Garcia truther in
that if you just put him in good
situations, he is going to flourish and succeed.
Now tonight, he actually got some right handers
out.
He had a huge double play ball.
Four pitches, he came into the game, first
batter, got a double play to end the
inning.
He's done that a number of times this
year.
That was against a righty.
Big time credit to Robert Garcia.
One thing I want to say about Garcia,
totally unrelated to his success on the field.
Man, do I love that that guy plays
with passion.
He is probably the most passionate player that
we have on the team.
Every time he records an out, it looks
like he's made one of the biggest outs
of his life in the middle of October.
For as much crap as we give this
Rangers team for being robotic, emotionless, lacking fire,
lacking passion.
And I've seen a lot of that over
the last two weeks.
Shoot, I've seen a lot of that over
the past 161 games.
Nobody needs to be questioning Robert Garcia's passion
for the game, man.
Dude cares.
Dude is pitching like his life depends upon
it every time.
I have a newfound respect for him in
that department.
I don't know why it took me this
long to realize it because I've seen this
from Robert.
We've all seen it from Robert, but you
know what?
The results really weren't there.
And so you said to yourself, yeah, I
like the passion, but man, I'd really like
for the guy to get outs.
Now he's getting the outs.
And now the passion becomes more evident as
a result of that.
Can't question that guy's fire for the game.
Love seeing that from Robert Garcia today.
And honestly, a lot of Rangers fans would
appreciate seeing more of that from a number
of different players.
Maybe October is going to fish it out
of them.
I hope so.
Game 162 surely should.
But I just can't appreciate enough seeing that
energy from Robert today as he walked off
the mound after that inning ending double play.
Good stuff.
Colby, yes, I will be up for the
game.
Not going to hop on a live.
A couple of people asked, will I go
live for the Astros A's game?
No, I'm not going to go live for
that.
I've already done two live shows today, Longhorns
and Rangers.
I will be posting.
So you want to hit me up.
I'll definitely be doing a little posting throughout.
I hope Jonah Heim hits like a walk
-off grand slam.
No, I don't want to see walk-off.
I hope he hits a grand slam like
in the second or third inning, just rip
the heart out of Houston right away.
That is what I would like to manifest
right now, please.
I will be staying up for the game,
though.
I'm sure I'll be posting about it.
So if you want to come hang out,
talk shop during the A's Astros, let's do
it.
If you don't follow me over on X,
I'm on Facebook.
I'm on threads.
I'm on pretty much everything.
So if you want a little bit of
that in-game right on Rangers analysis, it's
a little reactive, but we've talked about this,
man.
I tweet like I'm watching the game with
you.
We're out at a bar, getting a cold
one and enjoying ourselves.
I'm not sitting around mild mannered.
How can I give you the most politically
correct take here?
I'm tweeting like I am your best friend
cheering on the team that you love and
reacting in every moment like it matters more
than anything else.
That's how I tweet.
If you like that, then you'll probably enjoy
heading over to X Facebook threads and giving
a follow.
But that's pretty much how I support this
team.
I absolutely have my moments where I step
back and I try to give as measured
of a take as I possibly can.
But I've said so many times that I
don't mean to sound arrogant.
I feel like even the hot takes, even
the passion it takes most of the time,
end up working out.
Okay.
I'm not going to pretend like I'm batting
a thousand, but man, it's not as fun
if you do it any other way.
That's what makes this game special.
The passion for the game, the passion that
the fans have for it.
Who wants to sit around and make sure
that we just have the most objective, unemotional
conclusions given online about the Rangers?
Who wants that, man?
Nobody.
Nobody.
All right.
I digress.
Soldier, comment from YouTube here.
You think if Gore pitches great and gets
us to the playoffs, I'll change my mind
on the trade?
This is a great question.
This is an outstanding question about McKenzie Gore.
I have been a big time advocate.
If McKenzie Gore would just be locked down
for the last, however many starts of his
career, I think I started saying this in
August.
I'm like, McKenzie, if you can just give
us two solid months of baseball.
Look, I'll say it now.
McKenzie, if you could just give us two
weeks of really good baseball, look, maybe a
little longer than that, please.
Preferably you can give us four weeks of
really good baseball.
Everything that happened this year, negative surrounding McKenzie
Gore.
It all goes away.
And yes, I will say trade worth it.
That's the beauty of McKenzie Gore season.
He hasn't been very good.
He has not been very consistent, but he
has an opportunity to really change the narrative
in one month, five months of inconsistent black.
It's totally turned around.
If McKenzie Gore can figure it out for
his next four or five starts, I absolutely
think he changes the narrative on the trade.
If he can find a way to be
that lockdown arm that the Rangers thought they
were getting when they traded five prospects in
the off season to obtain his services to
grow.
Look, I surely hope he gets another opportunity
to show the Rangers fans, to show the
Rangers faithful, what he's got.
I don't want to see him go out
in 2026 on that note with the fans.
I know some fans are probably sitting around
Colby.
You might be one of them, but no,
I don't want to see to grow them
in a playoff game.
It's going to happen if the Rangers are
blessed to make it to October.
And I hope we get some redemption from
the Grom.
I really do truly.
Absolutely.
Skip talking right now.
Let me know if you got the RSN
broadcast in the background.
Let me know if Skip's got anything of
substance, anything of value for us.
We keep going.
Look, impressive response.
I think losing Josh Jung last night.
I feel like it would have been really
easy for the team as a whole to
kind of throw in the towel, get down,
feel sorry for themselves.
You lose your best hitter and then you
come out and your response is 12 hits
through the first seven innings.
Ultimately, the Rangers ended up with what, 13
hits on the night.
Great response losing Josh Jung.
It hurts.
I'm not sitting here pretending like it's going
to be a cakewalk without him.
I do think the Rangers can find a
way, but it's not going to be great.
You never want to go into battle, into
October battle, especially without your best bat.
And that is what is going to happen
sadly for the Rangers and Josh Jung.
But what a response from the offense and
from the team today really could have potentially
been a day where you saw Texas come
out deflated.
You saw Texas come out with a little
bit of their head hanging.
And instead you saw Texas really take control
of this game quickly, right away after giving
up the one run in the bottom half.
Great to see.
Love the response.
Yeah.
And now comes like the weirdest scoreboard watch
of the year, right?
You've got, you've got Houston and the A's
facing off at 840 Texas time tonight.
That game starts at about, in about 15
minutes or so.
If Houston wins tonight, it becomes a matter
of one game.
Texas has to win.
Houston has to lose, but you sure would
love to see Houston drop the game tonight.
And then you wake up tomorrow morning, game
162 with total control of your destiny, total
control.
Duran is definitely tick-tock common here.
Duran is definitely in a good place right
now.
The bat's been a little cold though.
That's the only thing I'll say about Duran.
I know.
I think he had a hit or two
tonight, right?
He had a couple of hits tonight, but
Duran has not been as hot as he's
been throughout the season.
You look at Duran's numbers, he's batting one
67 in his last 15 games.
Like Duran has not been crushing it, but
I think we've all come to the same
conclusion that Duran's been carrying this team at
a number of different points throughout 2026.
It's not ideal that he's doing this right
now, sliding slumping a little bit, but I
think we got to give Duran some grace.
He has been just about everything for this
team, literally playing almost every position.
Good to see him getting a couple of
hits tonight, and Duran is three for his
last seven.
That'll work.
Take that into game 162, baby.
Who cares about the last 15?
Last seven ABs for Ezequiel Duran, three for
seven with a walk.
Been on base 50% of the time.
Pretty good.
You hope Duran will find that swing once
again, and the Rangers will be able to
ride that to October and on a pretty
deep October run.
That would be the plan.
We're sticking to it.
Eric, what's good?
Appreciate you, man.
Thank you for at least beating up on
the Astros a little bit when you guys
were playing them, and hopefully the A's can
do the same tonight.
Comment from Facebook here, got to applaud Evo
too.
Really needed him to do well, and he
shut them down.
Hey, Garcia, appreciate you, man.
As always, man, all the comments, all the
support.
I just want to say thank you genuinely,
my guy.
Good stuff here.
We talked about Evo.
No slander on the amount of outs that
he got tonight.
Somebody was telling me earlier in the show,
man, people were getting on Evo because he
only went four and a third.
The dude's coming off the aisle.
I'm going to take whatever I can get
from him.
I'm glad that he nearly got us through
five frames.
You got to do what you have to
do at this time, and I just think
at this point, four and a third, one
run ball from Evo.
When you really thought that he was just
going to be in middle relief most of
the rest of the season, I'll take it.
I don't think there's any way anyone should
be turning Evo's start today into a negative.
It was huge.
Probably one of the bigger reasons that we
won the game, if we're being honest.
Yes, the offense, big reason for sure, but
the fact that you had a Eovaldi big
game Nate doing his thing, doesn't matter if
it was only for 13 outs.
I'll take all 13 of those outs, man.
That's almost half the game taken care of
right there.
You think about things a little bit differently
when it comes to this kind of year.
It's survive and advance.
You got to take what you can get
from certain players, and Eovaldi coming off an
injury, I'm taking what I can get, and
I'm appreciating, man.
We don't know how many more years we
got left of Nate.
Maybe he signs another contract.
It's possible that we're riding into the last
season here.
Got to appreciate every time Evo takes the
mound.
Special player, big game Nate showed up today,
and the Rangers win.
A lot of that has to do with
the 13 outs that he gave you.
All right, we're continuing to roll here.
You guys keep me posted.
You see anything in the post game?
You hear anything in the post game?
Like I said, I got the notifications on,
so I'm hoping if one of the beats
tweets something out, I'll be able to read
that to you live on the air, but
let's go ahead and let's talk about tomorrow's
game, game 162.
Minnesota is currently listing Dean Kremer, who you
remember the Rangers faced in the Baltimore Orioles
ALDS and roughed up a little bit, so
497 ERA for Kremer.
Texas starter is still to be determined, and
we got to win.
I mean, you can, I guess, get a
Houston loss tonight, maybe lose tomorrow, but man,
we don't want to even talk about that.
Win both games.
Win today, win tomorrow.
Houston, a loss tonight, I'll say it doesn't
take a lot of pressure off of you,
but at least you can do a little
bit of scoreboard watching, and you know, you
see Houston get down big early.
Sure, it can change how you play the
game a little bit, but you got to
win tomorrow.
All hands on deck, pedal to the metal.
Can't count on Houston.
You have to take care of your business.
Let's land this thing.
We are right at about the 50 minute
mark on the show.
This is great, and then I'll finish with
comments and questions before we sign off and
go watch some college football, go grab a
bite to eat with the fam, and hopefully
have a good eight watch of the Astros
lose into the A's.
We're manifesting that right now.
Today told me Friday and the disaster that
was Friday didn't carry over into Saturday, didn't
carry over into today.
The response from Texas that you got was
the kind of complete game that this situation
demanded.
You had great pitching.
You had great offense.
The mental mistakes were limited.
The defensive miscues were limited.
In fact, you had a couple of really
nice defensive plays.
Brandon Nimmo might have saved the season with
that diving catch, by the way.
I don't think we've talked about that yet
on the show.
I'm being so dead serious.
It was four to one.
If Nimmo doesn't catch that ball, it's four
to three, and the whole complexion of the
game changes.
Entire complexion of the game flips.
I'm still unsure about the offense without Josh
Young.
I'm not going to lie to you guys.
I like what we got today, but I
just am hoping and praying this offense can
get a couple more guys hot.
Seager and Langford would be huge.
I'd love to see Osuna get a few
more at-bats here and there.
I definitely think at this point it's just
about who's hot, who's not, and the guys
that are hot need to be up more
in the lineup.
The guys that are not, you either need
to be moving them down or thinking about
giving them a day.
I don't think anything is out of the
question.
It's all hands on deck.
It's whatever is going to help the team
win.
Throw the feelings out the window.
Whatever's going to help the team win.
That's what we need to do right now.
Then the next thing up, who's going to
be starting?
We'll see if we get an announcement on
that or not from Skip.
You are going to have a great day
of baseball in store tomorrow.
Game 162, always a special day.
Always a special day.
Zach, I agree.
Comment here, wonder what their record is with
Osuna starting.
They should probably start him either way tomorrow.
Somebody put it so well, so eloquently in
the comment section of one of my Osuna
posts.
It's like, he's doing too well.
We need to bench him tomorrow.
He's doing too well.
He went two for three today.
Bench him.
Can't be having all that good hitting and
success up in this lineup.
What are we doing here?
I mean, look, in all seriousness, I'm not
going to lie to you guys.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to
me why Osuna didn't get more playing time
this year.
It feels like every time he got a
consistent runway, was he going four for four
every night?
No, but nobody in this lineup is.
Osuna has one of the highest averages on
the team, one of the highest on base
percentages on the team.
Remember, he can't hit homers, so we can't
put him in the lineup.
Yeah, I mean, come on now.
Who doesn't hit enough extra base hits?
Newsflash, we don't have our big sluggers hitting
extra base hits right now.
Take whatever we can get.
Give me the guys that just get on
base.
Zach announcing, and now all of the notifications
are streaming in.
MacKenzie Gore is starting game 162.
Man, he has a chance.
This is going to be crazy for Gore.
Steve, appreciate you updating as well.
This is going to be wild for Gore.
Now, Swoljer YouTube comment asked me, Austin, does
your opinion of Gore change if he goes
out and shoves tomorrow?
I know I'm ad-libbing a little bit
there, Swoljer, if he's still hanging out, but
it was a great question.
Now, let's go to the flip side.
If MacKenzie soils the bed tomorrow, man, that
is just going to be the cherry on
top of a stinker, of a stinker of
a 2026, and a stinker of a trade.
If he goes out and really melts down
tomorrow, you are going to see Twitter on
fire related to MacKenzie Gore.
I definitely don't want to see that for
him.
Clearly, I don't root for anybody to not
do well, but I can guarantee you the
comment section, my comment section is going to
be on fire tomorrow if MacKenzie Gore gives
up a two or three spot immediately.
It's going to happen.
CY and Fenstermaker, all those guys that executed
the trade, you're going to be seeing them
get a lot of criticism as well.
I'm sure the Beats will talk about it
as they come to their exit conclusions of
the season.
I'll be harping on it.
You got to have a good outing from
MacKenzie.
What's a good outing?
I don't know if he's going to be
able to go five or six innings, two
earned runs or less.
That's what I would say, two earned runs
or less.
Steve, comment from X here.
Nicky Lopez said he probably hyperextended his ankle,
said it's sore, but he'll be ready to
play tomorrow.
Good stuff.
You can do stuff with a hyperextended knee.
You can do some STEM treatments.
You can obviously ice it, do the heat
treatments as well.
There's a lot that you can do, I
think, with something like that.
There's other injuries, the ankle and that kind
of thing where it's a little more dicey,
but the injury and what it looked like
he suffered, I did think to myself, I
wonder if they're going to take him out
of this game, but we'll see how he
responds tomorrow.
That will be, I think, curious to see,
did they put him in the starting lineup?
Is he going to be available off the
bench?
I'll be looking for that for sure.
Hey, Brayden.
Yes, sir.
Texas Rangers baseball, nothing like it.
Game 162.
Here we go.
Oh, man.
All right, y'all.
We are going to sign off for the
night.
I am going to go hang out with
the fam, have a good rest of the
Saturday.
Hope you do the same, whether you're hanging
with friends, family, or just chilling at home,
doing your thing, and I hope it's a
good one.
Tomorrow we will be back.
It will be during the probably seventh or
eighth inning.
I might hop on a little earlier tomorrow
for game 162.
If it's the last game of the season,
we got to make it count.
I hope it's not, but I'll probably try
and hop on seventh inning, eighth inning at
the latest, so we can at least get
two innings, if not three innings in, watching
the game together live, and then post-game
we'll do, no doubt.
We'll be keeping our eye on the Astros
game.
I'll probably have the split screen going, and
look, tonight, yes, Andrew, if we are keeping
our eye on that A's game, which most
Rangers fans should be, definitely come and hang
out.
I'll be posting about the A's game as
it goes along, probably not with the same
frequency that I post about the Rangers, but
man, I would love a Jonah Heim multi-home
run game.
Wouldn't that be legendary?
Former Ranger Jonah Heim with a multi-home run
game.
Is he even in the starting lineup?
Watch, he's on the bench.
I'm manifesting all this, and Heim isn't even
playing.
He might not be, man.
He really might not be.
We'll check out the box score right now
and see what's going on.
Wes Nesky pitching for the Astros, and on
the other side for the A's, you've got
Perkins going.
Heim is hitting in the nine spot.
There we go.
Heim time in the nine hole, baby.
Let's go.
If he hits two bombs, man, you're not
going to be seeing enough posts from me
if he goes off in this game and
helps the Rangers out.
That'd be awesome.
Be awesome.
We'll see what happens.
This is fun.
Need a little help, but the Rangers, nevertheless,
cannot be eliminated today.
They could be tomorrow, but they cannot be
eliminated today.
They live to fight another day.
They win this game against the Twins 6
-2.
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