#How baseball Twitter account ‘Would it dong?’ gets made

#How baseball Twitter account ‘Would it dong?’ gets made

“How baseball Twitter account ‘Would it dong?’ gets made” When Rangers manager Chris Woodward called Yankee Stadium a “Little League ballpark” on Sunday afternoon and claimed Gleyber Torres’ walk-off home run would have been “an easy out in 99 percent of ballparks,” there was only one place to turn for the cold, hard truth: The…

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#Lost Rangers dishonored themselves in loss to Penguins

#Lost Rangers dishonored themselves in loss to Penguins

“Lost Rangers dishonored themselves in loss to Penguins” PITTSBURGH — The Rangers dishonored themselves and their season with a total eclipse of the heart in Monday’s 7-2 debacle of a Game 4 defeat to the Penguins that leaves the club one loss away from ignominious extinction.  There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for the manner…

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#Power play lets down Rangers at worst possible time

#Power play lets down Rangers at worst possible time

“Power play lets down Rangers at worst possible time” PITTSBURGH — The Rangers could not have scripted it more to their advantage. Or maybe that should be, more than to their three advantages. Because following a first-period team-wide meltdown through which a perhaps flustered Igor Shesterkin allowed four goals on 15 shots before being pulled…

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#Banged-up Rangers get good contributions from subs

#Banged-up Rangers get good contributions from subs

“Banged-up Rangers get good contributions from subs” Both the Rangers and Penguins were shorthanded Thursday because 106 minutes of playoff hockey two nights earlier took its toll. It wasn’t surprising that Ryan Lindgren was sidelined with a lower-body injury, which caused the defenseman to come in and out of Game 1, but the Rangers were…

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#Rangers continue to have trouble handling Sidney Crosby

#Rangers continue to have trouble handling Sidney Crosby

“Rangers continue to have trouble handling Sidney Crosby” The Rangers were never going to hold Sidney Crosby to zeroes on the scoresheet, but through two games of their first-round playoff series, things could be going better. Much of the talk following the Rangers’ defeat in Game 1 centered on doing more against the Penguins’ first…

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#Rangers looking to sustain intensity beyond first period

#Rangers looking to sustain intensity beyond first period

“Rangers looking to sustain intensity beyond first period” The organizational mantra throughout the Rangers rebuild from 2018 to, well, last season, was to become harder to play against.  Every NHL team has coined somewhat different styles that make them difficult to contain, and the Blueshirts made a lot of progress this season in discovering what…

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