Infeliz.
Who are Tim Beckham, Jarrod Dyson, Alcides Escobar, Mike Moustakas, Lorenzo Cain, Eric Hosmer, Kendrys Morales, Cain again, Hosmer again, Morales again, Lonnie Chisenhall, Michael Bourn, Brett Hayes, Jose Ramirez, Jason Kipnis, and Carlos Santana?
They are the last 16 hitters Neftali Feliz has faced.
He didn’t strike any of them out.
Maybe just as alarming: Feliz threw those 16 hitters 57 pitches.
And there were four swings and misses.
Four.
And that includes the first two pitches the .175/.229/.237-hitting Ramirez saw last night before he fouled off an 0-2 fastball and grounded another four-seamer to shortstop on the play that tied the game and brought Kipnis to the plate for the decisive, rug-pulling upper-tanker, again on a four-seam fastball, not long after which Adrian Beltre said to reporters what the rest of us were thinking:
“The way the game went, we expected to win. We kept fighting and had a lead in the ninth and somehow lost the game.”
For the first month of the season, the lead story as far as the Rangers’ slow start was concerned was the offense’s missing bats.
Now the thing I can’t stop thinking about is how infrequently the closer is missing bats himself.


