Normally these About Last Nights are reserved for joyous occasions, to revel in a moment or small storyline within a win. It lets us float the joy just a little further downriver, till the next game starts.
But last night they lost. To the Texas Rangers, who could’ve unified warring nations based on the unequivocal assessment that they are Not Good. They lost to the Rangers and, as much as baseball is a team sport, Marc Rzepcysnki, with an assist by Scott “Stand by Your Man” Servais, wears this loss pretty resoundingly. I’m not one for hot takes, or targeted negativity towards a clearly struggling player (that one time I tweeted a sassy thing about Stefan Romero and, three months later, he liked it really left an impression), but it’s time to DFA Rzep.