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Diamondbacks not hanging heads after falling short of World Series title
The 5-0 defeat in the deciding Game 5 was full of missed opportunities for the home team, which lost all three games at Chase Field, but even that outcome didn’t put a damper on the D-backs’ magical postseason run. “At the end of the day, I feel like we shocked the world, for the most […]
Continue readingRangers take out D-backs for franchise’s 1st World Series title
PHOENIX — The Texas Rangers spent seven months of this season terrorizing opponents with a menacing offense that feasted on home runs and hardly ever let up. The first night of November showcased the other aspects that make them dominant — gritty starting pitching, sound defense and a lineup versatile enough to manufacture runs when […]
Continue readingRangers’ Corey Seager wins second World Series MVP award
More Teams. More Games. 2023 MVP Corey Seager reacts to Texas Rangers clinching their first-ever World Series crown. (0:46) PHOENIX — If the regular-season version of Corey Seager is firmly established as one of the game’s best players, the playoff version is fast becoming a postseason legend. The Rangers’ star shortstop was named World Series […]
Continue readingWorld Series Game 5 live updates: Can Rangers drop D-backs?
After a Game 4 romping of the Arizona Diamondbacks — in which Texas was ahead 10-0 at the end of the third inning — the Rangers hold a commanding 3-1 lead in the 2023 Fall Classic entering Game 5 at Phoenix’s Chase Field on Wednesday night. We’ll have all the action from the potential Series-clinching […]
Continue readingWorld Series 2023: Do the D-backs have another miracle left?
More Teams. More Games. The Rangers take a 3-1 World Series lead after beating the Diamondbacks 11-7 in Arizona. (3:45) PHOENIX — If the Arizona Diamondbacks can live up to the Answerbacks moniker that they’ve adopted throughout October as the calendar flips to November, what happened in the final innings of their Game 4 loss […]
Continue readingRangers on brink of World Series championship after Game 4 romp
More Teams. More Games. Marcus Semien gives the Rangers a staggering 10-0 lead in the third inning with a three-run home run. (0:42) PHOENIX — The Texas Rangers were dealt a devastating blow, then did what they seem to do every time adversity strikes this season: They dominated in the face of it. Moments after […]
Continue readingHow the D-backs’ young stars got them to the World Series
More Teams. More Games. Gabriel Moreno hits his fourth home run of the postseason to give the Diamondbacks a 1-0 advantage. (0:20) PHOENIX — Tonight, under the roof of Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, a scene few predicted months, weeks or even days ago will play out: The Arizona Diamondbacks will host Game 3 of […]
Continue readingMerrill Kelly silences Rangers bats as D-backs roll in Game 2
More Teams. More Games. Ketel Marte extends his hit streak to 18 straight games, breaking a tie with Manny Ramírez, Derek Jeter and Hank Bauer for the longest in MLB postseason. (0:31) ARLINGTON — Pitching in front of his grandmother for the very first time in the big leagues, and just five years removed from […]
Continue readingGarcía’s 11th-inning HR caps Rangers’ rally to doom D-backs
More Teams. More Games. Adolis Garcia keeps up his hot postseason as he crushes a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning in Game 1 of the World Series. (0:27) ARLINGTON, Texas — Adolis García hit an opposite-field homer in the 11th inning, after Corey Seager‘s tying two-run shot in the ninth, […]
Continue readingThe case for the D-backs as World Series contenders
More Teams. More Games. Jeff Passan tells Scott Van Pelt about the “clash of styles” between the Rangers and Diamondbacks ahead of their World Series showdown. (1:27) IN THE SEVENTH inning of the game in which the team he built clinched a World Series berth, Mike Hazen repaired to the visiting clubhouse at Citizens Bank […]
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