Colby Lewis News

The Texas Rangers had plenty opportunities to win. They had their leadoff man reach in the ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th innings of what had been a tie game but never capitalized.

What the Showalter, man. A couple of times a season you have a game that seems to make you run through every sports emotion you can feel within the span of just a few hours.

Roy Oswalt is without a doubt an accomplished big-league pitcher with a career 3.21 ERA with a .631 winning percentage.

On Deck will be here all season to provide you with everything you need to know about every Rangers series during the 2012 season.

Colby Lewis #48 of the Texas Rangers pitches against the Houston Astros in the 1st inning on May 20, 2012 during interleague play at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.

So, a day after I do a video about how the Rangers don't need Roy Oswalt , and won't need him unless there's a serious injury to a member of the pitching staff, Neftali Feliz goes to the disabled list with a sprained UCL, opening up all the Roy Oswalt talk in more serious fashion, and presenting a pretty significant issue in regards to what the ... (more)

They went 3-4 on a seven-game homestand, dropping three of four to Kansas City and Oakland.

C.J. Wilson, Colby Lewis, Derek Holland, Matt Harrison and Alexi Ogando may not have made up the best rotation in baseball last year, but they only missed five starts.

So the Rangers take 2 of 3, on the road, playing games with silly, imaginary rules that make pitchers go to bat.

The right hander actually said he felt better and was ready to return on Sunday, but manager Ron Washington held him out of the series finale with Houston as a precautionary measure.

Colby Lewis #48 of the Texas Rangers pitches against the Houston Astros in the 1st inning on May 20, 2012 during interleague play at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.

Randy Galloway had a column on Sunday on the Rangers not being the '98 Yankees , and among other items in there, Galloway's comments on Derek Holland caught my eye: Colby Lewis started strong but has drifted off into a ditch.

It's a good morning when you wake up and remember that the Rangers inched closer to retaining the Silver Boot for what may be the last time.

In the last 10 days, Colby Lewis, at times, looked unarmed. He pitched one game away by surrendering a barrage of home run balls.

Jonathan Lucroy homered twice and had a career-high seven RBIs, Zack Greinke pitched six strong innings to improve to 14-0 at Miller Park, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Minnesota Twins 16-4 on Sunday.

Regardless of who the opponent is, you can never feel bad about taking "only" 2 of 3 on the road.

Rangers starter : RHP Colby Lewis has allowed at least six runs in three consecutive starts and has seen his ERA rise from 1.93 in that stretch.

The happy-go-lucky left-hander with the goofy haircut and awful mustache resembled the happy-to-be-here rookie in 2009 who would routinely beat himself up after a bad start.

As the Rangers were leaving town Thursday I asked the manager his opinion on all the recent national opinions about his ballclub.

The Rangers get their first scheduled off day in 20 days on Thursday. They could use it to push struggling Colby Lewis back in the starting rotation.