Texas baseball team(s) notes

Now in the same division, the American League West, for the 5th season last year both Texas major league baseball teams made the playoffs.

The Texas Rangers won a one eighth/A.L. West title for the sixth time.

Meanwhile Houston (Astros) made the post-season as one of the two American League wild card teams.

When the Astros defeated the New York Yankees in the wild card round/”play in” game of baseball’s post-season they became a team that had beaten the Yankees but lost to the Mets (in the far more significant 1986 NLCS).