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The Texas Rangers scored eight runs and the Houston Astros scored four runs.
That’s all folks!
Rougned Odor bashed his way to a couple of dingers and the Rangers ended their season on a three-game winning streak which saw them even up their season series with the Houston Astros.
Unfortunately, the run differential tiebreaker goes to the Astros so the Silver Boot will remain in Houston. A devastating blow, no doubt, but the weekend wins also means that the Astros will go into the postseason with the indignity of a below .500 record courtesy of the Rangers.
It was a short — but somehow long? — unusual, trying, difficult, unpleasant, weird, and an incredibly Texas Rangers as a adjective on a franchise macro level kind of season. The Rangers weren’t good but it was the Rangers and it was baseball and it won’t be around for a long time again and I will miss it.
Player of the Game: Shin-Soo Choo’s time with the Texas Rangers is more than likely up. It’s possible that his baseball career will have reached an end as well. If so, Choo went out in a way that exemplified his time with Texas as he led off the game by reaching base just as he did so many times during his seven seasons with the Rangers.
If this was Shin-Soo Choo's final at bat as a Texas Ranger, what a heck of a way to go out. As always, playing the game hard. #TogetherWe pic.twitter.com/NEToxpSAqJ
— Smiley Pool (@SmileyPool) September 27, 2020
Thanks for the memories, Choo!
Up Next: The cold dark.