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<\/p>\nSeason Record: 2-1Week Record: 2-1Series Record: 1-0GAME One: 3-5 Loss @ Philadelphia PhilliesGAME Two: 5-4 Win @ Philadelphia PhilliesGAME Three: 8-3 Win (10) @ Philadelphia Phillies<\/p>\n
It\u2019s once again baseball time in Texas!<\/p>\n
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With a new manager, pitching coach, and a few important lineup pieces, this could be an interesting season.<\/p>\n
Especially getting their first series win in a relatively hostile stadium to start the season. Everyone wants to win game one but even with Nathan Eovaldi on the mound, but with a really strong Phillies team and a very vocal crowd, a loss wasn\u2019t all that surprising.<\/p>\n
My biggest take away from game one is the Rangers being able to score late in the game. We saw over the last few seasons, the Rangers get into a tendency of looking more complacent at the end of games. Not necessarily intentional, but if they weren\u2019t score early, they weren\u2019t going to score.<\/p>\n
Game two? Game two felt like the bullpen we were used to and once again the nostalgia of a Joe Nathan closer spiked once again.<\/p>\n
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I must admit, I was over the Robert Garcia Closer Experience last season and thought maybe we would see something different with Skip Schumaker calling the shots, alas, we did not. However, color me impressed when he got Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper out pretty quickly. But he did not have the same luck with the next two batters.<\/p>\n
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And so the way of baseball.<\/p>\n
But thanks to another new Ranger in Andrew McCutchen, the Rangers did not fully Ranger and they continued to battle through to win the game.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s rubber game included another new Ranger, MacKenzie Gore. Gore looked great in his Ranger debut, going 5.1 innings giving up two runs on two hits, three walks, and seven strikeouts. In fact, it wasn\u2019t until the first batter of the sixth inning that. he gave up a hit to the Phillies.<\/p>\n
The Rangers held the lead the entire game and while it did get a little shaky in the 7th inning for rookie Carter Baumler\u00a0who walked the first two batters he face, he managed to get out unscathed.<\/p>\n
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Next the Rangers will go to Baltimore where hopefully Jacob deGrom will make his season debut after being scratched for a stiff neck in Philly.<\/p>\n
And while we may just be three games into the season, we never miss an opportunity to celebrate a first place Texas Rangers team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season Record: 2-1Week Record: 2-1Series Record: 1-0GAME One: 3-5 Loss @ Philadelphia PhilliesGAME Two: 5-4 Win @ Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[1151,143,5,1207,63677,9636,403,5191,81,771,4,394,492,144,25,4216,40,69,3825],"class_list":["post-652762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-baltimore","tag-baseball","tag-bryce-harper","tag-carter-baumler","tag-icon-sportswire","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-joe-nathan","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-rangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116319101872652676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652762","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=652762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}