{"id":699358,"date":"2026-05-15T05:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699358\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:48:19","slug":"rangers-finally-find-the-magic-in-series-with-diamondbacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699358\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Finally Find the Magic in Series with Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/rangers\/onsi\/the-free-agency-signing-rangers-should-be-quietly-celebrating\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a>, for perhaps the first time all season, have positive momentum on their side. And it\u2019s all because of a little magic against the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Some things never change.<\/p>\n<p>After falling in the series opener in what was one of the most depressing baseball games the Rangers have played in years \u2014 and that\u2019s saying something given the disappointment of 2024 and 2025 \u2014 the team reeled off two magical victories. <\/p>\n<p>Neither was constructed in the same way, yet both contributed the same dramatic flair that was necessary to instill a little life into a squad that seemed to be teetering on the edge of mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>MacKenzie Gore Delivers Exactly What Texas Needed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers, for perhaps the first time all season, have positive momentum on their side. And it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":["post-699358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-diamondbacks","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116577023027565040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699358","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=699358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}