The Texas Rangers are having fun again — and it's led to their hottest start in over a decade
Skip Schumaker's group of 'veterans, super veterans and younger fellas' has come together faster than expected.
Texas Rangers third baseman Ezequiel Duran (20) and first baseman Jake Burger celebrate their team's victory over the Baltimore Orioles in a baseball game, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP) BALTIMORE — The word of the day, kids, is “fun. ” Now, use it in a sentence please.
Or 10. On Tuesday, after the Rangers put Baltimore away 8-5, nobody in the clubhouse could utter a sentence without using it. Can you blame them?
It’s a relatively new concept around these parts , at least it seems. And, well, they are having fun with it. Why not?
The Rangers, at 4-1, are off to their best five-game start since 2012, which started great, but we won’t mention the ending. They have won all these games on a season-opening road trip, only the second time they will complete a season-opening road trip of at least two series with a winning record — and the first since 1992. They are scoring runs, if not by the bush, then at least by the pecks.
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