79-67 - Rangers emphatically sweep Astros, take stranglehold on AL West

The 2015 Houston Astros are the 2009 Texas Rangers. It's not over for them in 2015, but they're the young, fun team with a lot of talent that tasted first place for the first time in a long time over the summer but are having a rough September.

These Rangers, I don't know who they are yet. All I know is they're fun. There's never been a Rangers team like this one. They're statistically lucky. They've been alternating between really bad and really good four times now this season alone.

Whoever this team is, they now have a 2.5 game lead in the American League West after sweep the Astros this week in a four-game series. The Rangers outscored the Astros 33-13 over the four games and generally just manhandled them. Maybe this team is just special.

Player of the Game: Second half Shin-Soo Choo is making it really hard to be mad about that contract. Tonight, Choo went 4-5, drove in two runs and scored twice while showing the Astros the value of on base percentage and bringing about chants of "SWEEP! SWEEP! SWEEP!" from the The Ballpark faithful.