It is the morning after the night the Texas Rangers won the 2023 American League pennant, and it still doesn’t seem quite real.
This team? This is the team that swept the Tampa Bay Rays, swept the Baltimore Orioles, then won two elimination games in a row on the road to knock off the hated Houston Astros to advance to the World Series?
I am still having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I mean, this club was dominant early in the year — 40-20 to start the year and all that — but it also rolled into the playoffs with two starting pitchers and a house of horrors bullpen, as well as an offense with a troubling tendency to go quiet at inopportune times.