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ARLINGTON — The Texas Rangers won their fifth consecutive playoff game Tuesday, winning 7-1 and completing a sweep of the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Division Series. The five straight wins match the longest postseason winning streak in franchise history.
The Rangers advanced to the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2011 where they await the winner of the ALDS series between the in-state rival Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins.
The Astros took a 2-1 series lead over the Twins with a 9-1 victory Tuesday. Game 4 of that series is set for Wednesday.
The Rangers would host Games 3, 4 and 5 of that series regardless of opponent.
Walk him if you dare
After hitting a solo home run with one out in the bottom of the first inning, the Orioles opted to intentionally walk Corey Seager to load the bases with two outs in the second inning.
Mitch Garver made the Orioles pay for the decision, lacing a double down the left field line and driving in two runs.
It wasn’t long before Garver and Seager touched home plate, too. Adolis Garcia blasted a 3-run homer to left field just a couple pitches later, putting the Rangers up 6-0.
Seager ended up with two walks in the game, giving him nine for the ALDS – an MLB postseason record for three games.
Playoff Eovaldi
Nathan Eovaldi again proved he’s a big-game pitcher.
He developed the reputation during his time with the Red Sox, and it has carried over through two postseason starts with the Rangers.
While Tuesday’s start wasn’t on the level as his Game 2 performance against the Tampa Bay Rays, Eovaldi used a mid-90s fastball coupled with a deceptive splitter to limit the Orioles to one earned run on seven hits and no walks in seven innings pitched.
Coming into Tuesday, Eovaldi held a 5-3 record with a 2.90 ERA, 49 strikeouts and eight walks in 49.2 postseason innings pitched. That comes across 12 appearances, including seven starts.
In two postseason starts with the Rangers, he's stuck out 15 and walked none in 13.2 innings pitched. According to Stathead, he is just the third pitcher in MLB postseason history with 15-plus strikeout sand no walks over a two-game span, joining Cliff Lee, who did it twice — once with Texas in 2010 and again with Philadelphia in 2011 — and Josh Beckett (2007, Boston).
Reinforcements coming?
The Rangers have gotten phenomenal work out of starters Jordan Montgomery, Eovaldi and the combination of Dane Dunning and Andrew Heaney. But baseball is a continual arms race, and the Rangers may have reinforcements arriving for the ALCS.
The team put Jon Gray on the DL with forearm inflammation during the final weekend of the regular season believing he’d be available for the ALCS. Gray is reportedly on track to rejoin the team.
Max Scherzer was pushing to rejoin the team for the ALDS and threw 92 to 94 miles per hour in a live batting practice session Friday, then had a rough bullpen session Sunday, partly due to a stomach bug.
The Rangers held Scherzer off the roster, thinking they could only get an inning or two out of him and hoping he’d be ready to pitch more in the ALCS.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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