deGrom’s Unexpected Strategy Shakes Up Rangers’ Battle Against Yankees—What’s Behind the Bold Move?
Whenever you get a matchup between two teams that represented their league in the past two World Series matchups, you expect there to be fireworks. Well, maybe not whenever, considering the turnover in baseball and the way that certain teams sell off their team after they make it to the World Series. Either way, we have two teams that should be good this season with the Rangers and the Yankees battling now as a potential playoff preview.
The Rangers enter today’s game over .500 and need to find a way to get consistently over the mark. There are issues with the team that probably need to be addressed, but the biggest thing is that they need to start winning regularly. We are 50 games into the season, and I’m starting to believe this is a .500 club that got lucky to win the World Series a couple of years ago. Their offense just clicked this year, and not quite as well this year or last year. The pitching staff has two top-of-the-rotation guys who can make them competitive with any team they face in any series. But, they could waste it if they don’t start playing better. The Rangers are sending one of those guys, Jacob deGrom, to the mound tonight to face the Yankees. deGrom is 4-1 with a 2.29 ERA for the season with a 0.98 WHIP. The biggest thing for him is trying to stay healthy. The only issue is that on the road he has a 4.40 ERA as opposed to his 1.47 home ERA. He has allowed at least two earned runs in each of his three road starts, and has given up four of his seven homers on the road. Yankees hitters are only hitting .176 against deGrom in 51 at-bats.
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