Rangers 3, Orioles 2
- Playoff baseball...it can be a little bit nerve-wracking.
- Especially when you’re on the road, facing your opponent’s best pitcher, and you’re going with Andrew Heaney as your starter.
- This was, for all intents and purposes, a bullpen game. Heaney had pitched out of the pen for most of September, and it seemed likely Bruce Bochy was going to have a quick hook, with Heaney not likely to go through the lineup more than twice before giving way to Dane Dunning.
- Dunning, of course, was the expected Game One starter, up to the point where the Rangers did a head fake the night before and said Heaney was the guy.