Despite tension, Rangers’ creative pitching plan works to perfection in a Game 1 win

Pitching was supposed to be the Rangers’ undoing. So far in October, it has been their strength.

BALTIMORE — was missing, and the game was coming off the rails. The fascinating and fluctuating reliever had begun the eighth inning with two walks. At Camden Yards, Brooks Robinson’s No. 5 loomed over the stadium in ghostly fashion, plastered to the warehouse out on Eutaw Street. A Baltimore crowd in love with its team was loud and growing louder. Advertisement This story was all-too-familiar: The enter the game with a late-inning lead. Then they blow it.

In that game, though, he helped lead the Rangers past and the , Texas’ lone victory in its final regular season series in Seattle. As much as the move made sense, it also came with risk. What if Heaney struggled? What if the game was essentially over before the rest of the script could unfold? Heaney instead answered the bell. The left-handed Oklahoman mowed through the Baltimore order, retiring nine of his first 10 hitters. The plan was working.

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