Rangers take games 3 and 4

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    Sorry I hadn't posted about the Fall Classic when the games happened. I had a monster migraine and didn't feel to good. Anyway...

    On Wednesday and Thursday the Rangers played the Diamondbacks at Chase Field. 

    In game three Max Scherzer started against Brandon Pfaadt (love that man), and it was a very interesting matchup. Scherzer looked sharp through his three innings, but had a bout of back spasms and couldn't come out in the fourth. Jon Gray replaced him with a three run lead that came on a Semien double and a Seager home run.  The Diamondbacks could have stepped out to a lead if Christian Walker hadn't run through the stop sign at third base and right into the first out of the second. Jon Gray threw 3 scoreless to keep the game at 3-1. Aroldis Chapman came in to pitch the eighth for Texas, and the first two batters put Arizona on the board with an Emmanuel Rivera double and a Geraldo Perdomo single. Chapman ended up getting out of the inning with a 3-1 lead and Leclerc threw a 1-2-3 ninth inning to close out the Texas victory. Jon Gray took the win for Texas and Pfaadt the loss, going 5 1/3 while giving up the three runs.

    Though the Rangers won and took a 2-1 series lead, the victory came with a price. Scherzer's back spasms knocked him off of the postseason roster, and Adolis Garcia tweaked his back on a flyout, and he too is off the roster. 


    Game 4 was on Halloween and the pitching matchup was Joe Mantiply vs. Andrew Heaney. And boy was this game a scary one for Arizona's fanbase. The Rangers exploded with 10 runs through the first three innings, 5 in the second and 5 in the third, all with two outs. That set a postseason record, as the Rangers are the only team in World Series history to score five runs in two straight innings. The bullpen game failed miserably for the D-Backs, as Miguel Castro, Kyle Nelson, and Luis Frias all got clobbered. There were five unearned runs that the Rangers scored, all in the third, because of an error by gold-glover Christian Walker. 

    Andrew Heaney was tagged for only one run in his five inning start, getting the win. However, while the Rangers were up 11-1, the snakes proved that they were still alive, scoring 4 runs in the eighth and 2 in the ninth. But that wasn't enough as the Rangers went to an 11-7 victory and took a 3-1 lead in the series.

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