SEATTLE — Chris Woodward said he’s a firm believer in the concept of making your own luck.
Even before the Rangers’ manager watched his team lose 4-2 to the Mariners on Wednesday night at T-Mobile Park for their fifth consecutive defeat, he was talking about this often-baffling, occasionally exasperating and ultimately very-baseball conundrum.
He mentioned a slew of hard-hit balls off Texas bats that seem to always find leather of late. He also said that it wasn’t an excuse for the team’s recent funk. The Rangers simply need to execute better in all phases of the game.
“It’s a little frustrating when guys are having quality at-bats, and there were some hard-hit balls today, for sure,” Woodward said. “But that’s out of our hands. There’s nothing we can do. But it is frustrating when we feel like we do things right and don’t have anything to show for it.”
Surely a few breaks here and there would be welcomed. On Wednesday, the Rangers once again couldn’t get the ones they needed and cemented Woodward’s point for him all over again.
Of the team’s 20 balls in play off starter Logan Gilbert, 12 were classified as hard-hit (exit velocities of over 95 mph) by Statcast. Six were over 100 mph, which typically results in a hit, but three of those were outs.
There also were 11 batted balls that had an expected batting average of .300 or higher, and only six of those went for hits.
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