Everything is certainly bigger deep in the heart of Texas this baseball postseason, with a showdown in the Lone Star State with the winner earning a spot in the…
Defending champions hope to return to the World Series while the Rangers hope to make their first trip back since 2011Everything is certainly bigger deep in the heart of Texas this baseball postseason, with a showdown in the Lone Star State with the winner earning a spot in the World Series.
“There's a lot of intensity. … I'd say we're rivals,” first-year Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said Thursday. “That's the way baseball should be, I guess. They're your opponent, so I don't think it should be a lovefest out there.”This will be only the 10th postseason series featuring teams from the same state in baseball’s divisional era .
“They are the reigning champions, so you have to give them a respect for that,” Rangers catcher-designated hitter Mitch Garver said. “I’d say we have equally as good a chance to win as they did.” The Rangers became a wild card and had to fly across the country — going over North Texas on the way — before sweeping the AL's winningest teams from the regular season, Tampa Bay and Baltimore.Houston, which won its ALDS over Minnesota in four games, had the division tiebreaker because of its 9-4 record against the Rangers this year. The Astros had clinched the season series even before their obliterating three-game sweep with 16 homers and 39 runs in Arlington from Sept. 4-6.
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