The Texas Rangers Go A Mind Boggling (11-0) On The Road In The 2023 ‘Offs And In Their 62nd Completed Season, Win Their First Title

The Texas Rangers won FIVE to 1 in game FIVE (that reversed the result of their first World Series in 2010, when their current manager Bruce Bochy guided SF to a FIVE game triumph vs them), raising their road post-season mark to an astonishing (11-0), which gave Texas their first title, doing so under Bochy (4th crown tying Walter Alston and Joe “Orhay” Torre behind only Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, who each managed 7 title winners and the legendary Connie Mack who guided 5 Series winners) in their 62nd completed season.

Corey Seager was named World Series MVP for the second time joining legendary greats, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson as the only players to do so.

In #5, five times once in each of the first 5 innings Arizona failed to score vs Texas starter and winning pitcher (5-0) in the ‘offs), Nathan Eovaldi, with a runner or two in scoring position. (In the tilt, Texas would fail 5 times (that # again) in runner at third less than 2 out(s) situations, normally a bad sign–finally getting runs after that situation, when Marcus Semien, who had FIVE rbis in the ease #4 win, made it FIVE-nada, with a 2 out 2RHR vs Sewald, who though not the losing pitcher in either, really hurt ‘Zona, yielding Seager’s game tying homer 1 out after walking Taveras in #1 and giving up 4 runs T9, as Texas extended a (1-0) lead to (5-0) in the series clincher.

Texas had no hits vs tough luck losing pitcher Zach Gallen, through 6 innings before Seager broke up the no-hit bid leading off the 7th with a single. Evan Carter doubled him to third, from where he scored on Mitch Garver’s (he was 1 for 18 in the series before), hit up the middle.

The Rangers despite 3 at bats with the aforementioned runner on third less than 2 outs “sitch,” failed to add but Chapman and especially Josh Sborz (0 runs, 1 hit, 2 and one third innings and the honor of K’ing Marte to wrap the first ever Texas Rangers title and end a 20 for 20 hitting streak that Marte had before #5 last night.

In the aforementioned Texas 9th vs Sewald, the “law firm” of Jung and Lowe, Josh and Nathaniel respectively singled and each scored on Jonah Heim’s single and same play error by “Az” center fielder Alek Thomas. Heim at third but again 2 failures with less than 2 outs before Semien truly iced the title with a 2RHR.

Many more notes to follow, the incredible Bochy now (51-24) starting with the Giants (51 and 24 truly great Giants’ #’s, the ’51 Pennant and Willie Mays respectively) in P.Season play, after winning but one third of his 24 post-season tilts as P-Pads manager (Padres (0-2) in W.S. Rays the same in W.S. Brewers and Rockies each (0-1) and the Mariners the only one of the 30 baseball teams in the so called “bigs” without even a W.S. “app, are the 5 of 30 sans title as Texas, again in their 62nd completed season –(they actually were in ‘offs position with a losing record when the ’94 season was cancelled–another example of wild card presence ill) got off that list).

As stated so many times, I think the wild card presence has ruined baseball, certainly for me, however hail each of these teams, 90 wins Texas and 84 wins Arizona for winning the games needed to get to what was a low rated World Series.

The “bleeps” (sorry, but I lived it, ate it slept it and in many ways still do as memories of great had to finish first pennant races of ’64,’67 among others float in my memory) who run it might change it a bit based on 2022 and especially 2023 but they as usual do not get it!!

El problem (did not want to start a second straight paragraph with “the”) is not the result that yielded a 5 seed vs 6 seed World Series but that the format with the utterly horrible wild card presence, in its just completed 29th season in one form or the other, allows the not such a long shot possibility of such occurring.

Now 2 Time W.S. MVP, Corey SEager pictured above.

Most important his tying 2RHR vs SEwald in #1 was the biggest play in the entity.

He also hit 2RHR’s yielding (3-0) at ‘Zona, Texas leads in #’s 3 and 4 before breaking up Gallen’s no hit bid with a T7 leadoff single, (Gallen would have been lifted, another real problem) and scoring the W.S. winning run in the #5.

Quite a series for Seager and playoffs run for first time title winning Texas (Rangers).