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00:03 Jack, the Rangers have only won two of their last 11 games.
00:06 What has been the biggest issue for Texas?
00:09 It's been pitching and it's been the offense not firing on all cylinders like they have previously.
00:15 So that offense was inarguably the best offense in baseball for the first several months of the year.
00:21 Marcus Simeon was awesome. When Seager was healthy, he was amazing.
00:25 Adonis Garcia is among the league leaders in RBIs.
00:28 Nathaniel Lowe was incredible at first base. Jonah Hine was playing like an all-star.
00:33 Now, you start to see these guys come back to earth and that offense has still been good,
00:38 but over the last 10 days, they're bottom 10 in baseball and Team OPS.
00:43 That's okay. You just need pitching to step up when your offense hits some flows like it is right now.
00:50 And the pitching isn't. Over this 10-game stretch where they're 2-8,
00:55 their staff, I think, is a 5-7-5 ERA. Noe Iovaldi at the front of that rotation is a really tough eat.
01:02 And I saw that he just had a setback. So September 1 looks like it's a non-possibility.
01:09 We'll see if they have enough power at the front of that rotation, man, but Hine's going to have to step up.
01:14 Martin Perez had a solid outing yesterday, but it's not sterling by any stretch.
01:19 Dane Dunning, you know, he had a horseshoe somewhere for the first half of the season.
01:24 Now we'll see if he can keep it there.
01:26 It's going to be very interesting to me to see how starting pitchers in Texas fair,
01:33 especially with Iovaldi out for a little bit longer.
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