After the ALCS victory over the Houston Astros, a season of triumph and heartache stirs long-suffering Texas Rangers fans.
ALCS MVP Adolis Garcia of the Texas Rangers celebrates with his teammates after defeating the Houston Astros in Game 7 to win the American League Championship Series.makes sense. That is exactly why, after 51 long years and more than 8,000 games, they might mess around and finally win a World Series.After only six starts and 30 innings of the regular season, they lost pitching ace Jacob deGrom to a season-ending arm injury.
Add it all up and — somehow, some way — all that losing has earned the Rangers home-field advantage in the World Series for the first time in franchise history. The team that hasn’t won diddly squat in the last 11 years is suddenly the favorite to win the title, starting with Friday’s Game 1 against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Arlington.
On the heels of watching his outfit go 60-102, by Thanksgiving 2021 majority owner Ray Davis had seen enough. At the winter meetings the following week, the Rangers shocked the baseball world by spending a half-billion dollars to sign free-agent middle infielders Corey Seager and Marcus Semien. But the investment improved the team by only eight games in 2022, and that’s when the real upheaval commenced.Said Davis at the time, “The bottom line is that we are not good.
“This is an amazing team,” Montgomery said. “We try not to think too much about stuff and just keep playing good baseball.” The post-grunge ’90s band, led by Scott Stapp, had some hit songs, but mostly became the poster boys for guilty-pleasure rock with its simple guitar chords and hollow lyrics. Creed played the Dallas Cowboys’ Thanksgiving game in 2001, but otherwise found its niche as the band that was cool to loathe.
I’d been to Turnpike Stadium in Arlington to watch the minor-league Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs, but in the spring of ’72 I encountered big-boy baseball. This, on the night of April 21, 1972, was the Texas Rangers. I sat with Dad in right-center field of the newly christened Arlington Stadium and watched in awe as slugger Frank Howard whistled a homer to the green seats in center in the first inning of a 7-6 win over the California Angels.
During the day we played Wiffle ball, or sometimes with a “ball” fashioned out of paper snow-cone cups. If my friends weren't available I’d take my scoresheets in the backyard, construct an imaginary opponent for the Rangers and play a game founded upon me throwing a tennis ball off the walls and roof of our house.
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