The Texas Rangers are back in the World Series for the first time since twice being within one strike of winning the 2011 title.
“We’ve had some hard times recently. Those are over,” general manager Chris Young declared soon after Texas won its third AL pennant.
When Texas hosts Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Friday night, it will come exactly 12 years to the date after Game 6 at St. Louis in the Rangers' second consecutive World Series with manager Ron Washington. They lost in five games to San Francisco in 2010, the first of three titles in a five-season span for that Bochy-managed club.
Swept in three games at Oakland in the final regular-season series of 2012, the Rangers finished one game behind Oakland after leading the division all but six games that year. Texas started ace Yu Darvish in the AL's first one-and-done wild-card game but lost to visiting Baltimore. That 2016 division title is still the last for the Rangers, one of six big league teams without a World Series title. They traded Darvish the following summer on way to 78-84 record that started their string of losing seasons, and dealt Hamels midway through 2018.
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