The 29-year-old went on to hit .318/.451/.682 with six doubles, six home runs and 12 RBI in 17 games during the Texas Rangers run to a World Series title, and in the process became just the fourth player in MLB history to win World Series MVP honors twice in his career....
first as the American League MVP in 2010 and then just a pitch away from being a world champion a year later. David Freese’s game-tying heroics, which had taken the champagne out of the Rangers’ clubhouse in the bottom of the ninth with Texas a strike away from ...
an inning can last for just a few moments. If both teams pile up the runs, it can last far longer. The longest MLB inning occurred on May 8, 2004, when the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangerscombined for 18 runsin a 5th inning that lasted 68 minutes. ...
WORLD SERIES HISTORY Every World Series in Major League Baseball History |Baseball Almanac Each year, the primary focus in any professional sport is the race for a championship. Every sport has their pinnacle trophy, but none is as coveted as baseball's World Series; a best of seven contest ...
Unlike other MLB franchises, they do not have a long history dating back to hundred years. Instead, the club was founded in 1969 with the name of Seattle Pilots. After just one season in the American League, the team was relocated to Milwaukee. This precisely made their way to represent ...
Neither the champion Texas Rangers nor the Arizona Diamondbacks had finished first in their division. Also, placement assumed new status in the rules of baseball last season with the decree that two infielders must stay on either side of second base. Perhaps more than any sport, baseball is a...
his last chance to redeem a decade of blown opportunities that made him perhaps the biggest disappointment in the history of the MLB draft. He's not allowed to drive. He's not allowed to drink alcohol. Just one night earlier, the Rangers flew in his 12-step sponsor from San...
But once Corey Seager, who was later named World Series MVP, got the team’s first hit on an opposite-field single, the floodgates opened for the Rangers offense. Texas scored one run in the seventh inning and then four in the ninth, capped off by a massive two-run home run by ...
Hard to get a bigger fan than a president, even a former one. Both George Junior and his later father, George H. W. Bush, called themselves fans of Texas's AFC team. The Bush family has long-standing allegiances to sports in the area and were once ...
The last team move of this time period was in 1972, when the second Washington Senators moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and became the Texas Rangers. Baseball would not see another team move until Major League Baseball announced near the end of the 2004 season that the Montreal Expos wo...