Corey Seager and the Texas Rangers wasted too many chances again over the weekend, going 3-for-20 with runners in scoring position in a series against Detroit and finishing 0-for-11 in those situations on Saturday and Sunday.
The Rangers managed their only three hits with runners in scoring position in the game they won, but the overall numbers were a blunt reminder of where Texas stands 34 games into the season: in the bottom four in the majors for hits, in the bottom three for runs scored and last in the American League in both categories. If the trend holds, the club will spend another week trying to survive with an offense that has not found enough steady production.
Josh Jung has been the one bat giving Texas something consistent. He is fourth in the majors with 12 doubles, and his work has kept him from being swallowed up by a lineup that otherwise has little margin for error. That matters even more now because the Rangers are set to face the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs this week, two division leaders that can punish clubs already struggling to put runners across.
The problems on base are not new. The Rangers fired their hitting coach earlier in the season, and the current slump with runners in scoring position looks like a continuation of the same pattern that has followed them from the early part of last season. Too often, Texas has delivered one good offensive game and then gone flat in the next one, a cycle that has become difficult to ignore.
That repetition is what makes the standings feel less like a temporary dip and more like a warning. A team that keeps missing chances, keeps sitting near the bottom of the league in hits and runs and keeps leaning on one or two hitters can still compete in stretches, but not for long. At this pace, the Rangers look less like a contender in waiting than a very average team trying to avoid being defined by the same failures again.
