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Hi and welcome to another edition of Right
on Rangers Live coming at you after a
6-2 victory, Texas getting the series win
against the Toronto Blue Jays.
We now roll into Sunday's game looking for
a sweep with none other than Jacob deGrom
on the mound just like we all drew
it up at the beginning of the season.
Of course, oh my goodness, good to be
hanging out with all you guys.
A game that definitely had a familiar shape
to it.
The Rangers getting some good fortune from the
Blue Jays early on with a defense that
was not very good yesterday or today.
You had an errant throw allowing Texas to
put up some early runs, a wild pitch
as well.
You had Paul Sewald, man is he haunted.
I'm sure he's haunted by this place.
Paul Sewald hits a batter.
You absolutely had a little bit of help
from the Toronto Blue Jays today but the
Rangers late, tacked on and they earned it
with the bats.
You had Wyatt Langford with a big hit
really allowing the Rangers to pad that lead
and after Cal Quantrill goes down with an
injury early in the second inning, you have
Jordan Montgomery, you have the Rangers bullpen really
step up to hold this Toronto team to
two runs.
Jordan Montgomery saving the bullpen tonight.
I 100% agree with that sentiment.
Absolutely.
Good stuff.
Wow.
And by the way, you just had the
Astros lose to the Atlanta Braves.
This day just keeps getting better and better.
You had Ronald Acuña Jr. hitting a grand
slam and now the Texas Rangers sit in
first place.
Hard to believe.
It really is hard to believe with where
this team has come from that we now
sit in first place.
Can't even believe it honestly.
Can't believe it.
This Rangers team has been an up and
down roller coaster ride throughout 2026 but they
find a way and they are now 78
and 77 and they sit atop the AL
West.
The only thing that maybe weighs on you
a little bit after a game like today
is Cal Quantrill.
What the heck happens with Cal Quantrill?
Didn't look good.
He was injured obviously in that game that
he last pitched and then you had him
coming in saying that he felt good but
clearly some ailments still bothering him.
They talked about a couple of different things.
Didn't know we got the full report necessarily
but lat tightness.
I forget exactly what the terminology was.
Right lat tightness.
His final four-seamer was only 88 miles
an hour and he was averaging about 94
on the season so I mean that was
a pretty big clue right there that something
was not quite right.
We have a chance.
We have a chance.
You got pretty much a brand new season.
You now fully control your own destiny.
That is the beautiful thing about this win.
You're in full control.
You no longer have to count on the
Astros.
You no longer have to count on anybody
else.
You are in full control here and I
love that.
Absolutely love it.
The Rangers for so long have been scoreboard
watching and chasing certain teams.
We're always having to look what are the
White Sox doing?
What are the Blue Jays doing?
What are the Guardians doing?
I'm so glad we now are in a
position and look you got to win tomorrow.
You got to keep winning but I'm so
glad to be in a position where you
can say to yourself with seven games left,
seven games, you control your own fate.
You keep winning.
You stay in first place.
You drop games.
Well, we know what the alternative is.
What a great day to be a Texas
Rangers fan.
I am almost in disbelief that this is
where we stand after all that we've been
through with these Texas Rangers in 2026.
Hard to believe this is where we stand
but I'm loving every minute of it.
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Drop a question.
We want to get to as much as
we possibly can tonight.
Thought Quantrill had back issues.
Well, I mean, that technically counts as a
back issue, right?
Hopefully, it heals up, man.
You need Cal Quantrill for the home stretch.
You really do.
Absolutely.
deGrom is pitching tomorrow, yes.
Hey, you just have to find a way
to keep stacking these victories.
You should sweep tomorrow.
You got Jacob deGrom.
You got one of the best pitchers in
the game on the mound.
You should sweep tomorrow.
John, I totally agree with you.
We need vintage deGrom.
You need to finish off this sweep.
You know Houston is going to be digging
deep.
You know they're going to be gunning.
You got to keep your foot on the
gas pedal.
Cannot give this one up.
You have control.
You don't have the tiebreaker.
And you've got your best pitcher, your $38
million man on the mound tomorrow.
Let's go.
We got to do a job.
Got to figure this one out.
Let's keep on rolling.
Appreciate all you guys hanging out.
Toronto season, I mean, look, I guess they
could probably go on a run and somebody
could go in the toilet.
You never know.
Robert Garcia scared me for a minute.
I know that I have become like the
resident Robert Garcia apologist here, but I will
say this.
Robert Garcia to me is essentially a lefty
specialist at this point.
He is a guy that you like and
feel very comfortable against lefties.
So Skip Schumaker, bringing him into a situation
where you had to face three righties in
a row.
Not necessarily my most favorite decision.
Now, I mean, are there worse?
Sure.
Yes, there are worse decisions, no doubt.
But Robert Garcia finds a way to get
out of it.
He gets the double play ball after giving
up the home run.
To me, I am just constantly advocating.
Just put him in good positions.
Put him in good positions, man.
There's no reason to make him this catch
all guy.
Put him in spots where he's going to
succeed, and in my humble opinion, that is
against lefties.
Wish they'd figure it out.
Swolger liked the comment.
It says deGrom wanted to stay.
Now it's time for him to show up.
Amen.
It is most certainly time for him to
show up.
You have got to figure out a way,
have to figure out a way to get
into the playoffs at this point.
There's no excuses.
There's no zero excuses.
You're in first place.
You've got your best pitcher on the mound
tomorrow.
Cal Quantrill, we can worry about that.
What does it mean?
What are the chances?
Have to shelve that for now.
You just have to find a way to
get in.
I told you guys, I didn't know if
it was going to make a ton of
sense, but I felt confident, felt very confident
that you would have an opportunity.
And I said, it definitely is up in
the air, but I just think the Rangers,
for whatever reason, are going to find a
way into October.
I have not been proven right yet, but
I do think that the Rangers seem to
have figured something out here.
And I don't think there's a whole lot
of analysis to be made into the winning
streak, why things are the way they are.
I think the team has found a bit
of a click.
I'll knock on wood for them, but they're
just playing with a little bit of a
different energy.
And it's an energy that is reminiscent of
2023.
I don't think these are the same teams.
I think the 2023 team, when you really
say it out loud, you had two guys
that finished top three in the MVP.
I mean, you had Corey Seager and Marcus
Simeon behind Shohei Ohtani in the MVP voting.
You don't have two MVP candidates on this
team.
The 2023 team is distinctly different from this
team, but the vibes are similar.
The vibes are similar.
It feels like this team has resolved.
And when they go down or when they
meet a little bit of adversity, at least
over the last week, week and a half
of baseball, you've just felt more hopeful with
this team than you have all season long.
That's where I'm at.
And Josh Jung is a huge part of
that.
I see some of you are talking about
Josh Casey.
What's good, man?
Josh, he came back and the Rangers are
now, I believe, six and one since Josh
Jung came back.
JN, you're saying the same thing.
They are six and one since Josh Jung
returned.
They've won two games against Arizona.
They won two games in the last set.
And now you win two games against the
Blue Jays.
You lose the one heartbreaker.
They are six and one.
I mean, I guess you could make the
argument they're six and one since Eovaldi came
back.
And I think you have to give Eovaldi
some love too, don't you?
He has been very, very good.
Very good.
I am very much encouraged by the different
series that the Rangers have had over the
past week.
You definitely have not seen perfection.
And I think we've been pretty upfront with
that.
You definitely would like to see a little
bit more out of the bats, no doubt.
Rangers benefited from some bad defense today.
They benefited from some shoddy pitching today.
You'd love to see the offense be slightly
more in sync.
But the reality is you're in first place.
Austin, totally hear you.
I know there's some people that are still
not convinced about the team's offense.
I would just say, if you're not going
to be happy with a game like this
and a result like this, I'm not sure
beyond a World Series victory, what's going to
do it for you.
I think this is a night to enjoy.
You're not going to hear me cracking down
on a lot of things this evening.
We're in first place.
I don't think that that's the right tone
read on the evening.
And by the way, Austin, not getting on
you, man.
There's plenty of people I think that have
valid concerns about the offense, myself included.
But I don't want to turn this into
a negative session, man.
There's a lot to be positive about, a
lot to be thankful for.
Are they winning the World Series?
Who knows?
Who knows?
I don't think we need to worry about
that.
I don't even think we need to worry
about how confident we are in this team
yet.
Were you confident they were going to be
in first place last week?
And I'm talking to everybody here, not just
Austin, right?
Were you confident they were going to be
in first place Saturday night, September 19th?
I would probably say no.
I wasn't.
I wasn't.
So for me, I'm going to enjoy this
game and I am going to bask in
the glory of being over the Astros for
at least one night.
At least one night.
And we definitely will have some things to
break down and analyze as the show goes
on.
You know we'll get into it.
But over 500 in first place.
Can't ask for a whole lot more.
Appreciate the gift, real estate agent.
Thank you so much.
I don't think they ever did put Joc
on the ILJN.
Comment from TikTok here.
Go Rangers.
Yes, sir.
Rangers, Brian says, just need to keep on
keeping on one game at a time.
They want it.
That's the mantra.
One game at a time right now.
Let's see what else we got.
Seagate.
Yeah, look, we we've got that mentality locked
right now in the next one.
And I am 100% down for a
wild ride to the World Series if they
want to take us on one.
But I'm going to take these gifts as
they come.
And right now, Texas, giving us first place.
Season ended today.
You're in the playoffs.
Everybody that was was so pushing back on
anyone being negative is probably taking some victory
laps right now.
Anybody that was constantly clapping back at the
negative accounts out there.
And this this is your turn to dunk
on some people, I guess.
I mean, to be fair, there are some
people if you utter even the slightest negative
criticism, you're going to get some crap.
But I know there's many people that consider
my account to be overly negative.
But the reality is for much of this
season, the Rangers have been a losing team.
And tonight, you can't say that, can you?
They are a winning ball club.
And we have to enjoy this evening.
Dr. Mark, I'm with you.
Thank you, Ronald Acuña.
Thank you.
Might have just become a big time fan,
especially if he goes off tomorrow as well.
Good stuff.
That Ronald Acuña, Matt, that got me so
hyped when I saw him hit the Grand
Slam.
That got me so hyped, man.
I have to say, when he hit that
home run, I just thought to myself, this
is the magic, right?
Like, this is the magic.
You had Montgomery come in, has to do
his whole warm up session out there on
the mound.
He throws up a bunch of zeros.
The Rangers have Cal Quantrill, their best starting
pitcher this year go down and they still
find a way to win.
This is October type magic, man.
And I said it as much, I posted
a couple of different times.
That's how you know, this is how you
know moments like this, that it's meant to
be.
I feel that way.
Now, is anything guaranteed?
Absolutely not.
But I'm just saying, these are the moments
you look back on, magical, man.
Montgomery comes in, 2023 legend that he is,
has to warm up entirely on the field
and you have him throw up a bunch
of zeros.
Montgomery tonight, he goes three and two thirds,
gave up one base runner.
One.
That's insane for a guy that had a
five plus ERA for most of this season.
That is insane.
But those are the kinds of performances you
need to have a special ending to your
season.
You have Eovaldi come in.
Yes, he gave up a run, but nevertheless,
he got us onto the next one.
So Silseth came in, made it a little
interesting, got us onto the next one.
Latsy slams the door.
Not a save situation, but still Richard, not
six in a row with the loss on
Thursday, right?
But I mean, they've won six of their
last seven, six of their last seven, man.
Special.
I keep saying that.
I keep saying that Matt says, where is
this level of play been all season?
YouTube comment here.
Yeah.
This level of play has not been consistent.
It has been up and down.
They have shown it at times, but they
have not shown it a ton.
This level of play has not been very
consistent.
You have a really good opportunity here though,
with seven games left to give us the
best week of baseball we've seen in 2026.
They appear to be hitting their stride at
just the right time.
And that is all you could ask for
a man.
It's all you can ask for comment from
TikTok.
Your injuries have kept them inconsistent ish.
I don't know if I'm all in on
that, Jay.
I appreciate the comment.
My guy, I don't know if I'm all
in on the injuries have kept them inconsistent.
Maybe Josh Jung.
It'd be interesting to see what would have
happened with the rest of the season.
If Josh Jung had not gotten hurt for
a month and a half, that to me,
it would have been an interesting thing to
go back in time and see the Rangers
still offensively, just not quite hitting their stride.
They got it done today though.
They scored just enough scored just enough.
And you know who I'm thinking about more
than anybody else?
Really?
I'm still thinking about that Trevor Williams outing
last night.
I don't know if any of you had
that thought during the game today.
I'm still thinking about Trevor Williams and what
that man did last night, throwing you for
scoreless dominating and essentially saving the entire bullpen
for today's game.
I think about how perfectly that worked out
considering what happened with Cal Q and you
didn't know Cal Q was going to go
down in inning two, but how valuable is
what you got from Trevor Williams who the
Rangers brought on board?
What less than a month ago, wild.
It all worked out, man.
I guess skip has a crystal ball after
all, man.
Yes, they have got a crystal ball after
all, because you sure needed a healthy bullpen
for tonight's game.
You absolutely did.
Uh, Nate says YouTube comment.
I hope Nicky is okay as well.
Say, man, he has been so invaluable and
he did more work out there.
They were, they're intentionally walking Nicky Lopez at
this point, intentionally walking the man.
He's nearly getting the Barry Bonds treatment out
there and rightfully so Nicky Lopez, man, if
they do not re-sign them, I posted this
earlier.
If they do not re-sign Nicky Lopez, we
riot, we get the pitchforks, we get the
fire, we get the torches and we riot
outside of Globe Life.
We have got to get Nicky Lopez back
at a Rangers uniform next year.
Come on now.
He can play multiple positions.
He gives you quality ABs.
He can bunt.
He gets on base.
He's striking fear into the hearts of opposing
teams and pitchers.
They're intentionally walking this guy.
Come on now.
Love it.
Greg, what's good.
Evo and Monty tonight.
These guys are inspirational.
Skip had got nothing to do with it.
Uh, you know, skip, I think he definitely
has had his ups and downs skip.
Uh, the interesting, most interesting decision for, from
skip tonight, probably for me was the Evan
Carter, not bunting or not taking him out.
I know that Evan Carter didn't do great
in his first bunt attempt, but, and I
don't really understand.
There was a runner on second, nobody out.
We know Evan Carter can't hit worth a
lick this year.
And that is accurate.
I didn't understand why you're not going back
to him a second time there.
We get it.
It didn't look great the first time around,
man.
I did not understand letting him swing away
after you had the lead off double in
front of him.
If he can't bunt legitimately, there is not
a great reason to play him in center
field.
I get the defense is great.
He can still be a defensive replacement, a
defensive substitution.
The back to me, you have to at
least be able to bunt man.
If you can't do that, we're in trouble.
We're in big trouble.
You got to at least be able to
do that much.
Uh, I know by the way, a lot
of you guys are, uh, are hitting me
up about Texas right now, Texas playing UTSA.
They are up 23 to six at the
moment.
Yeah.
Not the game.
You really wanted to see going into Knoxville
next week.
I will be doing a show later on.
I don't know if I'm going to do
a live show.
I'm definitely going to record a Longhorns
pod though one way or the other at
minimum, but not going to do one right
after the game.
Didn't really expect this game to be that
close.
If I'm being honest, I mean, look, the
Longhorns are up by three possessions.
I understand.
We'd like to see things a lot crisper,
but at the end of the day, I
think Texas is going to get this wind.
No, no problem.
No issue.
But yeah, arch not looking the sharpest defense
playing well, but the offense just not looking
sharp.
And I have to say, and we'll get
back to Rangers in a second here for
all of the hype that Sark gets, you
know, offensively.
And this is not going to be me
saying, you know, get rid of Sark or
anything like that, but it's just odd to
me.
I'll say that I don't want to go
too far with this conclusion, but it's just
odd to me that you've got this much.
I don't know.
Unrefined at this point with some of the
continuity with arch, with some of the big
names that they have offensively.
You just like to see it sharper.
That's all.
I'm not saying get rid of Sark.
He's terrible.
He sucks.
I know some Longhorns fans are on that
page, but it's just odd to me that
it continues to kind of be inconsistent up
and down.
Not totally sharp from game to game.
We'll talk more Longhorns.
I don't know.
Maybe I'll do a live.
It'll be late y'all.
If you're up late, you want to talk
football.
Maybe I'll think about it either way.
At minimum, I'll do a pod and I'll
post that pod early tomorrow morning so we
can get all of the Longhorns talk all
of the Longhorns points to after today.
We'll get it out there for you guys
one way or the other.
UTSA has won two games, but I'm not
trying to gas up UTSA.
No disrespect to them, but I'm not going
to sit here and pretend like, hey, this
is actually a really good opponent.
It's just not what I want to do.
Back to Rangers.
All right, back to Rangers.
I want to keep this focused.
I decided this year, last year, I would
do the split pods, but I decided this
year, man, I wanted just to try and
keep it a little bit focused from pod
to pod.
I'm doing a lot more cutting individual clips
from each one of my shows, and I
wanted to try and keep it a little
more separate.
Plus, I know some people, not Longhorns fans,
but Rangers fans and vice versa, so just
a little bit of the insight if you're
wondering what happened to the hybrid shows.
Decided to kind of go a little bit
more separate this year, depending on what's going
on.
That being said, we don't have a lot.
We don't have a lot more Saturdays, I
should say, where we're going to have to
worry about it.
Hopefully into November, though, that'd be great.
Into October, wouldn't mind that at all.
Let's keep rolling.
Appreciate all you guys hanging out.
Everybody hanging out on Instagram.
What's good?
Drop a comment, drop a question.
JSDentRepair says, deGrom has to be lights out
tomorrow and the offense be the same.
I have to agree.
We are heaping the pressure on Jacob deGrom
right now.
deGrom has got to be that dude for
you.
Has to be.
Absolutely has to be.
No excuses for Jacob.
You have a failure tomorrow.
It's massive.
It's massive.
Got to have prime vintage Jacob deGrom.
Going six, going seven strong, and the offense
has to give some margin.
Five hits tonight.
You took advantage.
You got the job done, but you've had
Ezequiel Duran having a little bit of a
tough time up at the dish.
Duran right now, just to throw the numbers
at you, hitting .190 over his last 15
games.
That is not ideal.
Duran fading a little bit here and not
at the greatest of times.
Corey Seager, one for four on the night,
had that base hit up the middle.
Corey Seager, he has been a rock for
the offense, man.
345 over his last seven games, hitting 300
nearly over his last 30 games.
Corey's been solid.
Josh Jung, we already know about.
Brandon Nimmo, he did have a hit tonight.
Nimmo hitting .169 over his last 15 games.
So you've got two guys that have been
middle of the order, slumping a little bit
right now.
I do agree with what Gerald is saying
here.
YouTube comment, Duran has done a lot for
us, needs someone to pick him up now.
Yes.
I'm not going to go in hard on
Ezequiel Duran.
He has been everything and all things for
this team.
So you're not going to catch a lot
of Duran criticism from me.
I'll tell you the numbers and they're not
great over his last couple of weeks of
baseball here.
I mean, you're batting below the Mendoza line
at this point over your last 15, but
Zeke's just been so valuable the entire season.
It is going to be hard for me
to go in on him.
But as we go up and down the
rest of the lineup, so you've got Zeke
and you've got Nimmo under 200 in their
last 15 games.
Wyatt Langford, huge hit tonight, but he's under
200.
Wyatt Langford, .188 in his last 15 games.
Man, do I hope that that double over
the left fielder's head tonight leads to something
special.
I really hope we got our 30-30
slugger back.
He is a game changer for this lineup.
Just makes everything look better.
I'm 1000% cheering for him to get
back on track.
It would be phenomenal if his heater can
coincide with this last week of the season
and into October.
Wyatt Langford with a great display of athleticism
as well.
You had an Evan Carter shallow fly ball
to center field, being a little aggressive, which
I liked sending Wyatt.
He leaps over the catcher, overshoots home plate,
and scrambles back and is able to get
in there safely.
That was an awesome play.
And look, Wyatt immediately before that had doubled
in a run.
That's good stuff.
You'd love to see this version of Wyatt
show up over the next three, four weeks.
Wyatt definitely has been on base more the
last two games.
Comment from YouTube there.
Appreciate you.
You've definitely seen him getting walks, taking walks.
That's huge.
If you're not able to get on base
via the hit, at least you're doing that
and using the speed.
Let's keep rolling.
Gerald, I agree with you.
I got the game, by the way.
I'm watching the Texas game in the background
here.
Yeah.
Our arch is having trouble.
He did drop a dime to Cam Coleman
in the back of the end zone on
that teddy, but yeah, he's having a tough
time with the wide open ones.
He is having a bit of a tough
time tonight with that.
Let's keep on rolling.
Hey, Victoria, thank you so much for the
rose.
I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
All right.
What do we got here?
Let's check it out.
Tonight, he had a lot to discuss.
Thought the game was going to go a
little bit sideways when Cal Q exits with
the right lat tightness.
Instead, after one and a third innings, you
have Jordan Montgomery come in and man, did
he do a job.
Jordan Montgomery was phenomenal tonight.
We've already talked about money.
He was outstanding.
Outstanding.
You have another guy.
You had Nathan of all the going in
this middle relief role.
You had Cody Bradford, you had Trevor Williams,
and now you have Jordan Montgomery, right?
Uh, Williams went four innings last night.
Cody Bradford went four and a third the
other night.
Nathan of all the went four innings a
few nights back.
And then you get this additional outing from
Jordan Montgomery tonight.
This is a ridiculous long relief run that
the Rangers are on right now.
Ridiculous.
A lot of credit needs to go to
some of those guys out in the pen,
especially Trevor Williams, who really set things up
nicely for this evening.
And then Jordan Montgomery follows it up.
I did not know that this game was
going to go as well as it did.
I'm not even going to lie to you
guys.
Just did not feel like it was going
in a positive direction, but that is the
mark of a team that's ready for October.
They have adversity strike and you figure out
a way to win.
Anyways, you overcome it.
That's what Texas did tonight.
And that I think does have to give
you, we're talking about confidence levels with this
team that has to give you at least
a little bit of confidence for the rest
of the season and potentially into October into
the playoffs.
You had a pretty bad scenario tonight unfold.
Almost a worst case scenario with Cal Q
going down.
He's been your best pitcher, even better than
deGrom all season long.
And you still find a way to win
anyways.
Jordan freaking Montgomery, baby.
And that is where I agree with what
Matt's saying here on YouTube.
It is a good decision by Skip.
You have, I know some people that aren't
the biggest Skip Schumaker fans.
Maybe you could argue he didn't have a
choice.
I don't know.
You could have gone some different directions.
I do think going right away to Monty
there was huge.
I think Skip has had an uneven season
with his decision-making, but I will say
you got to give him some credit for
how he managed along with Jordan Tiegs, managed
the bullpen tonight.
It was great.
Cam Cauley just doubled, by the way, in
the bottom of the eighth to runner score.
If you didn't catch it, they promoted Sebastian
Walcott to AAA, by the way.
Walcott joining Round Rock after the Frisco season
comes to a close.
And we'll go to the Round Rock game
right now.
You have Cam Cauley, like I said, driving
in a run already.
Walcott is up to bat right now.
We might get this game on.
I might put this game on and check
out Walcott batting.
Feels like a good decision.
Feels like the right call here.
Let's see if Walcott can go deep or
something.
All right.
We got that on the background.
I'll keep you posted.
Leiter or Macko in case deGrom can't go
six.
Is Jack Leiter back?
Leiter, help me out.
Is he supposed to be back?
I didn't even think he was throwing yet.
How is the Round Rock game going?
It is six to two.
And I believe Walcott, he just broke a
bat.
He's DH-ing tonight.
Walcott, by the way, is one for four.
And I believe that was a single.
One for four with a single.
Leiter, at last I heard, was not throwing.
But maybe that's changed.
I don't know if I got an update
before the show today.
But I did not really think Leiter was
going to be a guy the Rangers were
counting on moving forward.
I'll go to my injury report.
Yeah, don't have anything on Leiter.
Nothing on Leiter.
Oh, Tanyas, man, that was a short stint
with the majors, wasn't it?
Got sick the day after he gets called
up.
Goes on the IL.
Short little stint for Otañez.
Hope he gets better soon, man.
Really do.
Hope he finds a way.
All right, Walcott, up to bat right now.
Cam Cauley on second base.
It's a two-one count.
Gracefully forgiven.
Our division has been so garbage this year,
waiting for my M's to be knocked out.
Appreciate you, man.
Thanks for hanging out.
Yeah, you're feeling like we were, Rangers fans
were, for the past couple of years.
Like, can you end us?
Can you end the misery?
Put us out of our misery, please.
I think that's how a lot of Rangers
fans were feeling the last two years.
Even some this year.
Walcott is going to take a walk here.
So Round Rock has first and second two
outs.
And you are going to see Michael Helman.
Mike Helman, by the way, is three for
four tonight.
He is rehabbing.
I don't know if the Rangers have a
plan to bring up Mike Helman, but Mike
Hellman is rehabbing.
And he is having a pretty good night
tonight at the ballpark.
Looks like he has a double and two
singles.
Double and two singles tonight.
And there you go.
Yep, we got by the way, I know
we got some some horns fans hanging out
in the chat.
I will be doing a show later on
tonight.
I'm not sure if I'll go live or
if I'll do recorded.
If you guys if I get enough people
telling me that that you want to hang,
I'll definitely do a live.
But if it's late night, I just kind
of figured out most people probably moved on
at that point.
But the next day, you know, you check
out the pod, you check out some of
the clips I post from it, you call
it good, but we would have to do
a little bit later.
I'm going to go and do dinner and
hang out with the fam a little bit.
And then I'll get back into the content
stuff a little bit later on in the
evening.
But yeah, not looking sharp.
I posted a video today.
And I basically said, you'd love to just
see some things get cleaned up from the
Ohio State game before you go to Tennessee
before you go to Knoxville.
I mean, the good news is in this
UTSA game, I would talk some people off
the ledge, the defense has given up 100
total yards of offense.
And the offense for Texas does not look
super sharp to me.
But the defense is on point.
Double steal here, by the way, you have
Walcott and Cauley executing it.
Cauley steals third Walcott steals second.
How about that?
This is the dream.
I don't know if you've been on the
show if you've been on the lives when
I've talked about this, but Cam Cauley and
Sebastian Walcott to me, that is the dream
pairing up the middle.
I know that they've got Zeke.
I'd like Zeke to probably go play some
third base Walcott playing short Seager DHing eventually.
I've talked about so much like I can't
wait for this team to get a little
younger, get a little more athletic.
And you're basically seeing the future right there.
Sebastian Walcott and Cam Cauley executing a double
steal.
Give me more of that, please.
Please.
Mike Helman up to bat right now.
He takes a ball for.
Looks like actually, let me see.
Let me go ahead to go on forward.
Looks like he is going to pop this
one up, unfortunately.
All right.
Round Rock still up six to two.
We'll update you if anybody else of note
comes into the game or makes an appearance.
For now, we keep on going and we
have got much more to talk about with
this Rangers 6-2 victory over the Blue
Jays.
Let's go back to the game.
Let's go back to some of the big
performances.
We've talked about Josh Jung leads off the
game, not technically speaking, but basically starts off
Texas with that home run, immediately giving some
margin.
That was just so huge.
Bottom of the first inning, you got a
couple down and then Jung goes oppo taco.
Just set a great tone, I thought, for
the rest of the game.
And sure enough, Josh Jung now on the
season hitting .298 with an .817 OPS.
He's been so good.
And the Rangers, they would be in trouble
without him.
I know I've given Jungster, I know I've
given the Jungle Cat some crap with the
glove, especially, but I've definitely given the man
his flowers when it comes to the stick.
He has figured out something in a major
way this year.
You think about 24, yes, he dealt with
some injuries.
You think about 25, he had some pretty
major slumps and some injuries.
This year, a click has been figured out.
And Josh is one of the best hitters
in the American League, and I would say
in all the baseball right now.
You love to see it, really do.
Cheering for him, hoping that he gets to
do this in October.
Who could have predicted, comment here from YouTube,
who could have predicted that Monty and Eovaldi
would be pitching out of the pen to
get us into first place?
I know, it is so ridiculous.
I mean, we said it.
Who would have thought?
I didn't feel confident this team was going
to be in first place on September 19th.
You would have told me a week ago
we're going to be in first place.
I mean, I don't want to pretend like
it was an impossible feat, but nevertheless, you
just didn't feel awesome with all the back
and forth that the Rangers have been doing
over the last 155 games.
It has been so up and down, Jekyll
and Hyde, insert whatever metaphor or figure of
speech you need to.
There wasn't a lot of evidence that Texas
was going to do something like this.
You always have faith.
You always have blind hope.
And that's the beautiful thing about baseball fans
and baseball in general.
But yeah, I have to agree.
I'm not putting money on it.
Like, I always bet the Rangers to win
the World Series at the beginning of every
year, but I wouldn't have put money on
them making a first place run with some
of the low lows that they have experienced
over the course of this season.
Jay says, I thought they were stretching Evo
out to join the rotation again.
I think that that is the plan, but
obviously you had a dire situation tonight and
I think they adjusted.
Jared texted, he tweeted out that he thinks
Evo probably went to skip.
I don't know if that got confirmed by
the way, but Jared mused that Evo probably
went to skip and said, hey, I'm available,
throw me.
Which is awesome.
Evo's a dog.
We already knew that.
But I do think the plan is going
to have to be to get Eovaldi back
into the starting rotation, even if he can
only give you five innings or so.
I think you've got to figure out a
way to get that guy back.
You do not know what Cal Q status
is.
If Cal Q is out, you need Eovaldi
back in the mix.
You really do.
Absolutely.
Let's keep on rolling.
Yeah, this is a good point about Eovaldi
again.
TikTok comment here.
I think he has to join the rotation
in the postseason.
There's no one you trust more.
I think deGrom has had some good runs
in the postseason, even with the Mets.
I know we don't think Mets postseason a
lot.
You probably don't think Rangers postseason a lot
if we're just being real, but deGrom actually
has performed well in October.
So there's that.
But I would agree that Eovaldi is the
guy that I probably at this point, just
with the track record, if Cal Q is
out, he's the guy I trust the most.
Rob says from YouTube here, I think they
finished him first.
Hopefully they can go far into the playoffs.
I'm just enjoying this stretch.
I still have my theories and unless they
prove me wrong, I'm just enjoying.
Yep.
Day at a time, enjoying the wins, enjoying
this nice positive run that they're on.
Who knows how long it's going to last,
but you enjoy it.
You have fun with it.
I think that is 1000% the place
to be.
Matt says YouTube here, it's been floated out
that we could get into the second seed
and get a buy.
That is wild.
That could happen.
You're going to have to have Cleveland dropping
some games.
And right now, as you look at the
standings, which we'll do, we'll kind of give
you a little bit of an update here.
As you look at the standings, you've got
Cleveland at 80 and 75.
Cleveland is streaking right now.
They have won four in a row, seven
of their last 10.
The Rangers are 78 and 77.
So you're two games behind Cleveland.
Rangers do have the tiebreaker over Cleveland.
So if the two teams finished with the
same record and they were both division leaders,
Rangers would get the two seed.
That is helpful.
And so it is a very, very possible
outcome that the Rangers may still host a
division series and skip the wild card round
altogether.
Home field advantage would be so huge.
It would be so incredible.
And look, the fact that even if they
don't get this to the two seed, they
will have a wild card series hosted at
Globe Life.
If you are the number three division winner,
you get to host the three game wild
card set.
That's big.
So I'm definitely not at all saying, hey,
we don't need that two seed.
But if you win the division, you're hosting
a playoff series.
And so that's huge for a team that's
been so much better at home than on
the road.
So much better.
It's big.
So even if they only make the wild
card round, I still feel pretty good about
their chances hosting a three game set.
First one to two games wins, just like
it was when we were in Tampa Bay
in 2023.
I feel good about it.
I really do.
Let's keep rolling.
It's been a great show so far.
Always love talking when we're discussing victories.
I mean, we're here rain or shine.
You guys know this, but I always love
talking about the wins a whole lot more.
Even if sometimes there's a little bit more
eyes and ears on the negativity, you guys
will be shocked to see like when, when
the Rangers lose and it's like a bad
loss, like what was that on Thursday night?
Like the Thursday night lost the next morning
at like the most podcast downloads I've ever
had.
It's too bad.
Sometimes, you know, the negative stuff does get
more attention.
Yeah.
I've never had more downloads of my podcast
than what I got after the Rangers dropped
that heartbreaker on Thursday night.
It is what it is.
Hopefully there'll be some people excited about some
postseason baseball and we can top that
record.
I would much rather a big victory, have
more downloads than a crushing defeat, but such
is life.
It's how the world works.
Sometimes Rangers have control.
Now comment on TikTok here.
This is it feels good to have control
over your own destiny.
I'm a hundred percent with you on that.
100% with you comment question actually from
Jay here on TikTok.
What do I think the postseason rotation
looks like?
Well, Jay, it gets a little bit interesting
because right now the Rangers are setting this
up for Jacob deGrom in game 162.
If they clinch, you can postpone Jacob deGrom
to the playoff series, whichever series you're in,
whether it's a divisional series because you're the
two-seed, whether it's hosting a Wild Card series
at home.
You definitely have deGrom though lined up right
now to be the guy if the season
comes down to game 162.
And that's a good place to be.
That's if you just had your pick of
whoever you want and you can line it
up however you want.
I think game one is going to be
deGrom.
I think game two, if Evo is healthy,
they'll probably go Evo game two.
And then you go Cal Q game three.
I think that is how they'll line it
up.
I don't know what they're going to do
with the Eovaldi and they keep having bad
luck like tonight where you kind of have
to get Eovaldi off of the schedule.
If they were building him up, maybe you
can argue today would have been a bullpen
session or a side session of some kind.
I do think that is legitimate, but I
think if everything is perfect and everybody's healthy,
you probably go deGrom, Evo, Cal Q, one,
two, three.
If they are not able to line it
up, you got to be flexible.
Here we go.
Casey says, YouTube here, if Quantrill is healthy,
top three of the rotation would be dope,
but if he's hurt, we might need Gore.
Yeah, get the antacids, get the Pepto out
for that, baby.
If we don't have Cal Q game three
and game four, if we're in a divisional
round, obviously it only goes to game three
if you're in the wild card round, but
let's say you're in the divisional round and
you don't sweep three-oh.
That would actually be the dream scenario for
the Rangers.
If you've got Quantrill, deGrom, and Evo, can
we just sweep three-oh in the divisional
round and not have to deal with game
four?
Throw in MacKenzie Gore and throw in Kumar
Rocker.
God bless both of them.
I'm rooting for them, but I think we
can all be real.
It's been extremely up and down with those
two pitchers.
Very much up and down.
I think if you're a Rangers fan and
the Rangers are in the divisional round and
it's a five-game series, you are praying
hard for a Rangers three-oh sweep.
Can we just sweep with deGrom, Evo, and
Cal Q?
Please and thank you.
I really want to believe that Mackenzie and
Kumar are going to flip a switch in
October and just be these lights out, swing
and miss guys that they can be.
1,000% can be.
I just don't have a lot of confidence
in it.
It's like we said a week ago, you're
thinking about, is this team going to make
the playoffs?
I definitely don't know that there was a
lot of evidence for you to soundly say
yes.
I feel the same way about Gore and
Rocker.
I don't think there's a lot of evidence
to suggest that they are going to crush
it in October, but it's weird, man.
Daniel, you might have a point.
Facebook comment here, those guys are John Gray
of 23, Monty takes the four spot.
Yeah, you might have those guys as your
big-time bullpen options.
You remember John Gray in 23?
He had some very good outings out of
the pen.
That could be interesting.
I don't know that I love either one
of those guys as pen guys, just because
they do have the ability to get wild.
They don't always throw strikes, and that is
a big no-no when it comes to
October baseball.
But if those guys could be big-time
swing and miss, get you some big strikeouts
and big moments come October, that's the dream.
Jordan Montgomery may have solidified himself though as
the number four guy.
Daniel, I think you have a point there.
I do think what Montgomery showed you tonight,
and plus the credibility that he has with
the organization and what he did for the
org in '23, it wouldn't shock me at all.
And maybe it's knee-jerk, maybe it's prisoner
of the moment, but Jordan Montgomery, with what
he gave you tonight coming into this game,
give you the stat line one more time,
three and two thirds, one walk.
He allowed one base runner in nearly four
innings.
He wasn't getting a lot of swing and
miss, but there was some soft contact.
A couple of baseballs got hit hard, but
I just think he is absolutely inserting himself
into the conversation.
Game four starter if you need it.
A couple other comments here.
We've got one from YouTube here.
I'm worried for the series in Target.
Yeah, Minnesota, last weekend, last three games.
You're in the friendly confines right now.
I know that's Wrigley, but you're in the
friendly confines of Globe Life.
And I definitely am worried when the Rangers
go on the road.
You hope that they build up enough margin
where you don't have to worry too much.
They've still got one more game and then
they've got three more against the Mets.
If you can win tomorrow and sweep the
Mets, I know I'm making this sound easy,
right?
When tomorrow sweep the Mets, just go on
a six game win streak.
Like it's nothing.
Come on now.
If they can do that though, maybe Houston
gets beat up a little bit and you
go into that Minnesota series, maybe only needing
to win one game.
We know how that went in Seattle in
2023.
I mean, it all worked out in the
end, but that didn't necessarily go great with
an opportunity to clinch the division in Seattle.
Nevertheless, we know how things ended in early
November in 2023.
That being said, you would love to have
a similar opportunity though.
Just like in 23, the Rangers, they had
to win two games out of four to
clinch.
Just to leave no doubt, right?
They were only able to win one, but
they were able to clinch a playoff spot.
That's the opportunity that I would love for
the Rangers to have in the final weekend.
Win one game and you clinch.
You don't have to sweep.
You don't have to even win two out
of three.
In fact, maybe you win the Friday night
game and you get to rest everybody Saturday,
Sunday, you get to party Friday night in
Minnesota.
I'm just manifesting this by the way, right
now, if you can't tell, I'm going to
go ahead and just speak this into existence
for all you guys, sweep the Mets, finish
off the blue Jays tomorrow, win Friday night
in Minnesota, party hard, and go ahead and
take Saturday and Sunday where you're resting and
you're getting ready, maybe to have even more
time off hosting a divisional series in Arlington.
How quickly the tables turn in the game
of baseball.
Am I right?
The fact that we're talking about this right
now, it's hard to believe this kind of
stuff is coming out of my mouth.
I am going to knock on wood in
a major way, man.
I do not want to see anything go
sideways here.
You're still kind of holding your breath.
You're taking it a game at a time,
but man, this is fun.
This is what we have all been waiting
for.
Speaking of fun, Texas finally gets on the
board with the touchdown.
Mr. Brown, Relique Brown, taking it into the
end zone.
There you go.
30-6 now, Texas.
It's an easy game to be nitpicky about.
That wasn't Brown, excuse me.
Was that Cooper?
Who was that?
Yeah, I know they're trying out some different
guys right now.
All right.
Let's see if the margin can increase a
little bit.
Nine minutes left in this game.
All right, y'all.
Let's land this thing.
We have almost, let's see, 57 minutes of
show behind us.
Let's see if we can land this thing
and head into the rest of our Saturday
night.
Go enjoy some football the rest of the
way.
Then, like I said, I'll probably get on
later and do either a show or I'll
do a podcast of some kind and I'll
post it later tonight.
We'll see what we decide to go with.
Colin Simmons reportedly has a boot on.
Geez, not good.
Hope that's precautionary.
Really hope that's precautionary.
All right.
The rest of the way.
Let's go through some of the big takeaways
from this ball game.
I like to do this at the end
of every show as we finish up.
Tomorrow, by the way, deGrom Toronto has not
announced, but a lot of people are thinking
it's going to be Yesavage.
Definitely a quality arm out there.
We'll see what Toronto decides to go with.
deGrom tomorrow, 11-9, 3.79 ERA, 194 strikeouts.
deGrom has definitely pitched well of late.
I know he had the big time hiccup
in Chicago.
That was unfortunate, but deGrom has been really,
really good of late.
I think you have to feel confident with
his ability to go out tomorrow and get
a sweep for the Rangers.
This would be so huge.
Right now, again, start time 1:35.
deGrom in his last three games, he has
allowed four earned runs in 17 innings pitched.
It's pretty good.
3.53 ERA over his last seven games total.
He is coming off an outing against Boston
where he allowed two earned runs in five
innings, struck out eight.
Before that was Seattle 12 strikeouts, six innings,
one hit.
deGrom feeling himself a little bit right now.
Feeling good about deGrom's chances tomorrow.
Toronto, they are 76-79 now.
They're technically hanging around the wild card race,
but you wonder what this is going to
do to their psyche.
You really do.
I'm not sure how the mental fortitude is
holding up for the Jays, but they can
definitely win a ball game.
You just hope that deGrom has the ace
stuff and the Rangers can figure out a
way to keep on producing and putting pressure
on defenses offensively.
Now, I would say this.
deGrom's biggest thing that I'm watching for tomorrow,
can you give a little bit of length,
man?
At this point, you have deGrom really only
going five or six innings.
deGrom, to me, needs to give you at
least six, if not seven, especially after how
the bullpen was used tonight.
You do not want to see deGrom give
you a four or five inning, especially with
how many arms you had to use today.
That would be huge.
I think you have to be careful.
Springer, Guerrero, they've been a little quiet in
this series.
I'll be watching out for those two guys
as I look at the makeup for tomorrow.
deGrom against the Blue Jays, always like to
kind of roll through the numbers here.
We won't go through the whole lineup, but
I'll point out some notables.
You have, it looks like, very few guys
with actual ABs.
Guerrero is three for eight against deGrom.
Guerrero, kind of a guy to circle.
Everybody else, very much mixed bag.
Most guys, either 0 for 4 or 1
for 4.
All right.
Look, Phillip, what's good?
Good to see you.
Anything in this season is possible.
Agree with you.
Houston Analyst says the Rangers can win the
division as early as Thursday.
Oh, gosh.
I mean, I guess, but that's glooming and
dooming, right?
That's like Houston losing and us winning.
The magic number, let's see, is seven.
Magic number is seven right now.
So, I mean, even if you won the
next three and you had Houston losing the
next three, that would put you at one.
So I guess Thursday technically could be a
clinch day, but I think that it's probably
going to come down to Saturday or Sunday.
I don't think that this is going to
get wrapped up.
You'd have to have Houston taking a massive
dump for that to be true.
I just don't think that's going to happen.
That's just me, though.
All right.
As I said, final takeaways.
Tonight told me Texas, they are getting remarkably
good, especially over the last couple of weeks
here.
It's surviving some pitching chaos.
And the offense, although they only had five
hits, I think they're doing a better job
of at least putting pressure on defenses, putting
pressure on opposing pitchers.
You're taking walks.
You're putting the ball in play.
Is it sexy?
Is it out of this world?
Highlight real amazing?
No, but it's doing its job.
And that, I think, is something that you
have to be at least mildly satisfied with
at minimum.
I'm satisfied with it.
I'm enjoying it.
I think the Rangers, while they haven't been
hitting home runs out of the park left
and right, you watch them have some really
quality ABs, make pitchers work, stuff that you
wish they were doing all season long.
Definitely a little unsure about, you know, the
pitching staff with the Quantrill injury.
You hope everything's OK.
I just don't know how long this is
going to be able to stand up if
you have all of these injuries mounting.
And it feels like somebody's getting injured like
every other game at this point.
It might come to a spot, might come
to a where it's really hard to get
over and to overcome these kinds of things.
You hope the good news comes out with
Quantrill tomorrow.
You hope the bullpen can get a breather.
You know that's what deGrom has in his
mind.
I got to give this bullpen a breather.
Give the pen a game where it doesn't
have to invent nine innings or invent even
four or five innings.
Tomorrow, if there's a game where you could
get seven frames from deGrom, maybe even eight,
that is the name of the game for
sure.
Just like getting on base, like Casey said
in this YouTube comment here.
That would be phenomenal.
You hope that it can happen.
deGrom not very consistent in that department, but
I think it is time.
I think it is time to shine.
With that being said, we are going to
sign off for the night.
Like I said, Longhorns pod or Longhorns show
a little bit later on in the evening.
Looks like they are going to wrap this
one up.
Not the prettiest game, but Longhorns are going
to get a win tonight.
We will break it down and talk all
about it.
Appreciate you guys hanging out.
Rob, I agree with you.
AL West always comes down to the end.
Astros' next opponent is the A's.
I think, Matt, I thought the A's were
like the last series.
I thought they played the Mariners next.
Could be wrong on that, but I thought
they played Mariners next for whatever reason.
Let me take a quick peek at Tuesday's
matchup.
Houston is playing Mariners.
Actually, we had a couple of Houston accounts
hop on and say that last series with
the A's really worries them because the A's
have given the Astros some fits.
For what it's worth, all right, y'all.
I'm taking off.
We do have Monday off, by the way.
Then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday against the Mets.
Looks like Houston is off on Monday as
well.
Houston and Texas both have Monday off.
Both start their series on Tuesday.
Astros play the Mariners.
Rangers play the Mets.
I appreciate all you guys.
Thanks for hanging out, man.
Casey, appreciate the kind words.
We will be back a little bit later
on in the evening to talk Longhorns.
We'll be back tomorrow, 8th or 9th inning,
hopefully talking about a Jacob deGrom masterpiece and
a Rangers victory in series sweep of the
Toronto Blue Jays.
Oh, so good to be in first place.
I can't say that enough.
Rangers making a lot of people happy this
evening, and the Braves making us all even
happier.
Braves beating the Astros, doing us a solid,
getting us into first place.
Good stuff, Carter.
Thank you for the gifts.
Not needed, but very much appreciated, my guy.
And with that, as I always say to
end every show, God bless and go Rangers.