August 12, 2024 • 7 mins
The MLB season is getting closer and closer to the postseason and one Texas team is making a push and the other is getting farther away.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's The Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way. I
mentioned earlier that jareddurn is suspended for two games for
using an anti gay slur, so he will not be
in the Red Sox lineup tonight or tomorrow night, and
(00:27):
they'll be at home at Fenway Park and they're playing
host to the Texas Rangers. The Rangers can use a
break because it's been a tough ride for them lately,
and they're kind of falling from contentional first of all,
or seven and a half back in the American League
West now, and that was after they had closed to
within what was two and a half two and a half. Yep,
(00:49):
they've only they've lost seven of their last ten. They're
eight below five hundred and they're seven and a half
back of the Asteroids and Mariners are really staging and
all out wards, on and on it. It probably will go
on into September. Now, if you're a Rangers fan and
your interest in what's going on with a wildcard, it's
(01:09):
even worse there. They're ten back in the Wildcard. That's
because you have teams like the Yankees, the Twins, the Royals,
the Mariners, even the Red Sox, who are all playing
really pretty good baseball. But the problem is is that
the teams ahead of them in their division are playing
(01:30):
stellar baseball. Now the Yankees are tied for first in
the American League East with Baltimore, even though the Orioles
had gotten the seventy wins faster than any other team
had done this year in baseball, but they lost yesterday.
Baltimore did a Tampa Bay, but they're both seventy and
forty nine. The Guardians had really been in a bad way.
(01:54):
They had lost I believe it was seven in a
row and including the first two games of a double header.
Maybe it was eight in a row, first two games
of a double header in Minnesota in a division showdown series.
But Cleveland came back and they won the next two.
So they're back up by three and a half on
the Twins, but the Wheels are only four back. And
I mentioned in the West, the Astroids and Mariners are
(02:15):
tied for first. Houston actually holds the division league by
one to one thousandth of a point percentage point one
one thousand. Now they do have one more series against
each other Houston in Seattle. It's late next month, so
that'll be going to be down the stretch and then
Nash League. It has been a really weird last ten
days for the Phillies, who dropped six of their last ten.
(02:38):
Two of the four losses that they had. Two of
the four wins that they have during that time were
in La over the Dodgers, but they had a rough
road trip overall, but through Division race is largely unaffected
because the Atlanta Braves are in a complete free fall
and a collapse. They've dropped seven of the last ten.
They I think ended up splitting this year or dropped
(02:59):
two out of three to the Rockies. Yesterday's thing was
just terrific. They're up eight to two, going to the
bottom of the eighth and give up a seven run
bottom of the eight to lose to the Rockies. The
Rockies who are forty four and seventy five, and then
the Mets, who were climbing the ladder and had pulled
within I think five of the Phillies now have fallen off.
They've dropped six of their last ten, so they're eight backs.
(03:21):
So Atlanta technically would still be in a wild card
spot if this season ended today. Milwaukee has been pretty steady.
They're up seven and a half in the Central and
the West. The Dodgers had stumbled a bit, they bounced
back with a sweep of the Pirates, but they've lost
River Ryan, the outstanding freshman pitcher. He's added to this
disabled list or the injureless now. They activated Mookie Bets
(03:42):
today for the first time in nearly sixty days ago,
and Walker Buehler is going to be back this week
and not a minute too soon because they're playing the
Brewers in Milwaukee. It's a big series there for those
two first place teams, because the Dodgers and Phillies are
actually tied for the best record in the National League,
and only by a game and a half on top
of Milwaukee. So and then if the playoffs in the day,
(04:03):
the two teams that have been the hottest or the
Diamondbacks and the Padres and the Potter's had a seven
game winning streak snap yesterday. But both Arizona and San
Diego have won eight of their last ten, and even
the Giants, who won seven of their last ten, are
in contention for a wild card spot. So the way
it looks right now. If you look at the wild
(04:25):
card standings in the American League right now, it would
be the Yankees, the Twins, and the Royals who would
be in it, although the Mariners are red Stocks are
just two and a half and three games respectively back,
so there's still an even Tampa Bay at five and
a half, Backs not totally out of it, and the
nationally the Diamondbacks and Padres would be tied for the
(04:45):
top spot in the Wildcard, follow by the Braves who
are up a half game on the Mets, the Cardinals
and Giants only a game and a half back, Cubs
only three, Reds four and a half, Pirates five, So
there's still ways to go. And that gets back to
that that whole business again of just find a way
to get in As a Rangers, the Rangers problem is
(05:06):
is that it's a tougher road to climb to get
a wildcard spot this year than it is to win
the division. And that might seem unfathomable except for the
fact that the Astros and Mariners are playing well enough
to hold a seven and a half game lead on Texas,
so the walls are kind of closing in on the
Rangers seven and a half back in the Division, ten
(05:27):
back in the wildcard race because there's too many really
good teams they are gonna have to climb over if
they're gonna grab one of those three wildcard spots like
they did a year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, the sun is starting to set on the season,
unfortunately for the Rangers, and it's just they hadn't really
shown any signs that they could turn it around. I mean,
we thought for a moment maybe after the All Star
break when they had that four game win streak and
swept the White Sox, but then you know, it was
a Chicago White Sox and we you know, kind of
saw that that was Full's goal. This Rangers team is
(05:56):
what it is, even with Scherzer and the and Molly
all coming back. It's just the bats have really let
Texas down this season. The offense is not producing at
the same clip as it was last year. Guys like Adulas,
Garcia and Joonah Him and Joan Kowski just not having
good good years. And it's just been the bats and
Seeger and Simeon have not had fantastic seasons either. They've
(06:20):
been they've been all right, but they haven't really They're
not batting above three hundred, they're not being the difference
makers of the Rangers really need them to. And then
of course injuries to Josh Young and Evan Carter. It's
just been a tough year. And the same thing with
Atlanta Braves. You know, a year from hell and real quick.
On the Braves, I know they won the World Series
in twenty twenty one, but since twenty eighteen they have
(06:41):
what five NL East pennets. Right at what point do
you go from saying, you know, a tenure if you
go from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty four, because the
Braves they're not gonna win the NL East the season,
even though they were favorites with the Dodgers Kamal of
the NL, do you consider that a disappointment, Craig, going
back to the last six years that you've only had
(07:01):
one World Series and even though you were considered maybe
the best team in the National League since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Let me put it to you this way, there's enough
hold of us older guys who remember when the Braves
won thirteen consecutive Division titles thirteen in the nineties into
the two thousands, they had one World Series to show
for it. When they beat the Indians in six games.
In ninety five one, they got beat by the Blue Jays.
(07:30):
They got beat by the Yankees. Of course they ran
into the Yankee machine and Derren jun Or in his
prime and everything. But yeah, and then they got upset
in the playoffs. Some year they got upset by the Marlins.
They got upset by the Padres, they got beat by
the Astros. They had some years what they definitely had
the best. So this is kind of reminiscent, It is
(07:51):
of that of those days for Atlanta. We'll be back
to wrap up today's program on Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred Zone
It's The Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way. I
mentioned earlier that jareddurn is suspended for two games for
using an anti gay slur, so he will not be
in the Red Sox lineup tonight or tomorrow night, and
(00:27):
they'll be at home at Fenway Park and they're playing
host to the Texas Rangers. The Rangers can use a
break because it's been a tough ride for them lately,
and they're kind of falling from contentional first of all,
or seven and a half back in the American League
West now, and that was after they had closed to
within what was two and a half two and a half. Yep,
(00:49):
they've only they've lost seven of their last ten. They're
eight below five hundred and they're seven and a half
back of the Asteroids and Mariners are really staging and
all out wards, on and on it. It probably will go
on into September. Now, if you're a Rangers fan and
your interest in what's going on with a wildcard, it's
(01:09):
even worse there. They're ten back in the Wildcard. That's
because you have teams like the Yankees, the Twins, the Royals,
the Mariners, even the Red Sox, who are all playing
really pretty good baseball. But the problem is is that
the teams ahead of them in their division are playing
(01:30):
stellar baseball. Now the Yankees are tied for first in
the American League East with Baltimore, even though the Orioles
had gotten the seventy wins faster than any other team
had done this year in baseball, but they lost yesterday.
Baltimore did a Tampa Bay, but they're both seventy and
forty nine. The Guardians had really been in a bad way.
(01:54):
They had lost I believe it was seven in a
row and including the first two games of a double header.
Maybe it was eight in a row, first two games
of a double header in Minnesota in a division showdown series.
But Cleveland came back and they won the next two.
So they're back up by three and a half on
the Twins, but the Wheels are only four back. And
I mentioned in the West, the Astroids and Mariners are
(02:15):
tied for first. Houston actually holds the division league by
one to one thousandth of a point percentage point one
one thousand. Now they do have one more series against
each other Houston in Seattle. It's late next month, so
that'll be going to be down the stretch and then
Nash League. It has been a really weird last ten
days for the Phillies, who dropped six of their last ten.
(02:38):
Two of the four losses that they had. Two of
the four wins that they have during that time were
in La over the Dodgers, but they had a rough
road trip overall, but through Division race is largely unaffected
because the Atlanta Braves are in a complete free fall
and a collapse. They've dropped seven of the last ten.
They I think ended up splitting this year or dropped
(02:59):
two out of three to the Rockies. Yesterday's thing was
just terrific. They're up eight to two, going to the
bottom of the eighth and give up a seven run
bottom of the eight to lose to the Rockies. The
Rockies who are forty four and seventy five, and then
the Mets, who were climbing the ladder and had pulled
within I think five of the Phillies now have fallen off.
They've dropped six of their last ten, so they're eight backs.
(03:21):
So Atlanta technically would still be in a wild card
spot if this season ended today. Milwaukee has been pretty steady.
They're up seven and a half in the Central and
the West. The Dodgers had stumbled a bit, they bounced
back with a sweep of the Pirates, but they've lost
River Ryan, the outstanding freshman pitcher. He's added to this
disabled list or the injureless now. They activated Mookie Bets
(03:42):
today for the first time in nearly sixty days ago,
and Walker Buehler is going to be back this week
and not a minute too soon because they're playing the
Brewers in Milwaukee. It's a big series there for those
two first place teams, because the Dodgers and Phillies are
actually tied for the best record in the National League,
and only by a game and a half on top
of Milwaukee. So and then if the playoffs in the day,
(04:03):
the two teams that have been the hottest or the
Diamondbacks and the Padres and the Potter's had a seven
game winning streak snap yesterday. But both Arizona and San
Diego have won eight of their last ten, and even
the Giants, who won seven of their last ten, are
in contention for a wild card spot. So the way
it looks right now. If you look at the wild
(04:25):
card standings in the American League right now, it would
be the Yankees, the Twins, and the Royals who would
be in it, although the Mariners are red Stocks are
just two and a half and three games respectively back,
so there's still an even Tampa Bay at five and
a half, Backs not totally out of it, and the
nationally the Diamondbacks and Padres would be tied for the
(04:45):
top spot in the Wildcard, follow by the Braves who
are up a half game on the Mets, the Cardinals
and Giants only a game and a half back, Cubs
only three, Reds four and a half, Pirates five, So
there's still ways to go. And that gets back to
that that whole business again of just find a way
to get in As a Rangers, the Rangers problem is
(05:06):
is that it's a tougher road to climb to get
a wildcard spot this year than it is to win
the division. And that might seem unfathomable except for the
fact that the Astros and Mariners are playing well enough
to hold a seven and a half game lead on Texas,
so the walls are kind of closing in on the
Rangers seven and a half back in the Division, ten
(05:27):
back in the wildcard race because there's too many really
good teams they are gonna have to climb over if
they're gonna grab one of those three wildcard spots like
they did a year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, the sun is starting to set on the season,
unfortunately for the Rangers, and it's just they hadn't really
shown any signs that they could turn it around. I mean,
we thought for a moment maybe after the All Star
break when they had that four game win streak and
swept the White Sox, but then you know, it was
a Chicago White Sox and we you know, kind of
saw that that was Full's goal. This Rangers team is
(05:56):
what it is, even with Scherzer and the and Molly
all coming back. It's just the bats have really let
Texas down this season. The offense is not producing at
the same clip as it was last year. Guys like Adulas,
Garcia and Joonah Him and Joan Kowski just not having
good good years. And it's just been the bats and
Seeger and Simeon have not had fantastic seasons either. They've
(06:20):
been they've been all right, but they haven't really They're
not batting above three hundred, they're not being the difference
makers of the Rangers really need them to. And then
of course injuries to Josh Young and Evan Carter. It's
just been a tough year. And the same thing with
Atlanta Braves. You know, a year from hell and real quick.
On the Braves, I know they won the World Series
in twenty twenty one, but since twenty eighteen they have
(06:41):
what five NL East pennets. Right at what point do
you go from saying, you know, a tenure if you
go from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty four, because the
Braves they're not gonna win the NL East the season,
even though they were favorites with the Dodgers Kamal of
the NL, do you consider that a disappointment, Craig, going
back to the last six years that you've only had
(07:01):
one World Series and even though you were considered maybe
the best team in the National League since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Let me put it to you this way, there's enough
hold of us older guys who remember when the Braves
won thirteen consecutive Division titles thirteen in the nineties into
the two thousands, they had one World Series to show
for it. When they beat the Indians in six games.
In ninety five one, they got beat by the Blue Jays.
(07:30):
They got beat by the Yankees. Of course they ran
into the Yankee machine and Derren jun Or in his
prime and everything. But yeah, and then they got upset
in the playoffs. Some year they got upset by the Marlins.
They got upset by the Padres, they got beat by
the Astros. They had some years what they definitely had
the best. So this is kind of reminiscent, It is
(07:51):
of that of those days for Atlanta. We'll be back
to wrap up today's program on Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred Zone
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