Back to the Texas Rangers Newsfeed

How the Rangers are about to send a 2,500-year-old mathematician spinning in his grave

Staff Photographer

The Rangers celebrate their 3-2 win during the Los Angeles Angels vs. the Texas Rangers major league baseball game at Globe Life Park in Arlington on Monday, September 19, 2016. (Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News)

ARLINGTON -- The Rangers can clinch the American League West title as soon as Friday night, when they open a series at Oakland.

When the inevitable event happens, it will send Pythagoras of Samos spinning in his grave. The Rangers are making Pythagoras and his followers look bad.

Pythagoras was a good-field, no-hit Greek philosopher and mathematician, born more than 2,500 years ago.