Eleven years in the making, the Texas Rangers began their playoff run today. Everything seemed to go right. Cliff Lee did what Cliff Lee does. He had some first inning trouble and then shut down the Tampa Bay lineup. Ten strikeouts, less than 110pitches. I had a feeling things were going to be okay when Josh Hamilton got a hit in his first at bat. And Nellie Cruz launched a moonshot over the center field wall on a 3-0 pitch was good as well. But the wonderful thing was where the real hitting came from: Jeff Francoeur and Bengie Molina. They combined for four of the Ranger hits, including Molina's home run to left field. And they were the bottom of the order. One down, ten to go.
Texas fans are due for a little success. The Rangers are the only team in Major League Baseball never to win a playoff series, a dubious honor. Rangers fans heartbreak goes back nearly forty years. My own goes back a little further. Being born in Washington D.C., I knew them as the Senators, so I have suffered with the Senators/Rangers all my life.
THE TIME IS NOW.
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