{"id":347609,"date":"2025-09-28T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/347609\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:42:43","slug":"cleveland-guardians-clinch-as-texas-rangers-falter-finale-prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/347609\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Guardians clinch as Texas Rangers falter finale prelude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Texas Rangers scored two runs but the Cleveland Guardians scored three runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Congratulations to Austin Hedges! Clearly Hedgie was the cog that made this thing go for that magical month a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hedge\u2019s team will play in October again. His old team, meanwhile, just lost on a walk-off hit by pitch to force them to need a win in tomorrow\u2019s finale to avoid a .500 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ah well. At least it was a funny way to end Houston\u2019s reign!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Player of the Game: El Bombi homered in what is surely his last weekend with Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Up Next: The end begins tomorrow at 2:10 pm CT from champagne soaked Progressive Field. Come check out Patrick Corbin and the Texas Rangers for a final time in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers scored two runs but the Cleveland Guardians scored three runs. Congratulations to Austin Hedges! Clearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,38560,4,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-347609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-game-day-threads","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-rangers","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-rangers","14":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115281746059874375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}