The plan was to have Scherzer throw approximately 70 pitches, and had that figure been reduced by about 60 or so the Rangers would have been just fine.
“Look, in these situations there is going to be some bad in this,” Scherzer said after the game. “I get it.”The Rangers suffered their first loss of this postseason and lead this series 2-1; Game 4 is Thursday night in Arlington.“Yeah, I’d do it again,” he said. “He was ready. He’s one of our guys. No regret on that.”, which in the last few weeks have enjoyed their unofficial status as the official rock ‘n’ roll band of the Texas Rangers.
That was Scherzer’s second-worst start since coming to the Rangers at the trade deadline in a deal with the New York Mets. In his eight previous starts with the Rangers, his least-effective outing was Sep. 6 when heThis ALCS was never going be a broom fest. The Astros team that won the American League West with one of the best road records in baseball appeared on Wednesday night.
The Rangers did make things interesting, thanks mostly to a pair of home runs from third baseman Josh Jung. Don’t want to forget the spectacular over-the-wall catch from Leody Taveras to rob Yordan Alvarez of a long ball.