Former MLB and Texas Rangers utility man Curtis Wilkerson says that you have to have three things happen to win a baseball game: “good pitching, good defense, and timely hitting.” This was something that he stressed when I played for one of his teams. While it seems like an obvious checklist to win a ballgame, it is one that each of the Rangers’ last five games can be filed into while looking for a reason why they lost.
The Rangers recently faced three aces in three days and took two games of the three.