Look, nothing’s been easy for Texas since the middle of August. Not even the good things. Entering Sunday’s series finale vs. the Oakland Athletics at Globe...
So, when the Rangers eked out a one-run win over the A’s on Saturday by way of a wild pitch, the phraseThe Rangers’ bats bashed their way to a 9-4 win over Oakland on Sunday to clinch the team’s first winning series since Aug. 28-30. It was the Rangers’ highest margin of victory since a 12-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels nearly one month ago on Aug. 12. The team’s top hitters swung like world-beaters. The bullpen posted zeroes across the board.
Regardless: Sunday was a good day for the Rangers to look a bit more like their first-half selves again.“We won the ballgame, we scored a lot of runs, we kept the lead,” second baseman Marcus Semien said. “We just want to build off that. What happened in the past happened in the past. We can dwell on it, or we can focus on what’s ahead. I think that we can focus on what’s ahead.”Thank Semien for a good chunk of those runs.
“He doesn’t really have bad at-bats,” Seager said of Semien. “Even when he’s not going his best, he’s out there grinding, seeing pitches and just trying to move the lineup along.”