I'm not asking for more home runs; I'm asking for hits with runners in scoring position. This team is batting .242 with RISP--which is good for 21st in MLB.
Inconsistency.
The Rangers are 7th in the league in Batting Average and 8th in On Base Percentage, which should show that they put men on base with ease. In fact in one out of every 3 batters, a Ranger player gets on base.
The problem is that they don't go anywhere!
Look no further than the 18 inn..yes 18 INNING loss last Saturday 6/8/2013 to see an example of the struggles here. 30 men were left on base, and two players, I won't say any names here but we will just call them Lance B. and Nelson C, went a combined 15 at bats without a hit. As a 3 and a 5 spot hitter, your job is to drive in runs. With 15 at bats, neither of those gentlemen could get so much as a single.
You'd figure one of them would come up with some kind of hit. It defines statistics! If a player is even batting an embarrassing .200, they would still likely get at least one hit every 5 plate appearances! But in 18 innings--two full ballgames worth of baseball--they didn't "put out". No, sir, they simply got out.
