Thoughts on a 9-2 Rangers loss
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: MacKenzie Gore #1 of the Texas Rangers points while pitching during the game between the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, May 7, 2026 in New York, New York. (Photo by Michael Urakami/MLB Photos via Getty Images) | MLB Photos via Getty Images Yankees 9, Rangers 2 Well that sucked. I’m going to cut the offense some slack on this one, though.
The Rangers had a number of hard hit balls that ended up finding gloves, starting with the first batter of the game, when Brandon Nimmo ripped a shot to deep left that Jasson Dominguez made a great play on. Dominguez crashed into the left field wall and had to leave the game, resulting in Ryan McMahon coming into the game and the Yankees doing a bunch of defensive shuffling. The Rangers followed things up in the first with an Ezequiel Duran walk, an Ezequiel Duran caught stealing, a Corey Seager walk, a Josh Jung HBP, and a Joc Pederson ground out.
What one would have thought would’ve, could’ve, been a productive inning resulted in nothing. The bottom of the first featured two triples by the Yankees, both to right field, where Joc Pederson was getting his first start in the outfield since 2023. The first triple was by Paul Goldschmidt.
It was his sixth triple since the start of the 2019 season. This was the second of the two triples: View Link See, a reasonable person would have seen how the first inning shook out and said, nope, it ain’t happening today. We aren’t reasonable people, though.
We’re Rangers fans. Still, the Rangers stayed in it for a while. They took the lead, even, putting one up on an Ezequiel Duran homer and getting another run on a Duran RBI ground out.