The Texas Rangers trounced the Tampa Bay Rays in the Wildcard round but now take on the Baltimore Orioles in the ALDS.
Fresh off a Wild Card sweep, the Texas Rangers will try to stand toe-to-toe with the AL East champion Baltimore Orioles in Game 1 of the ALDS.With Billy Joel playing next door at M&T Bank Stadium later in the evening, the Baltimore Orioles volunteered thein two games in the Wild Card round, while Baltimore hasn’t played a game since Oct. 1 after their 101-win season granted them a bye and the top seed overall in the AL.
Baltimore, on the other hand, has collected a core group of homegrown talent, having played through two 100-loss seasons during a long and rough rebuild. They’re weathered from their time together, with veterans from other teams carefully selected to bulwark their young stars. The excellence of the Orioles’ players who have graduated from Baltimore’s lauded farm system will be on full display with many regulars all over the diamond.
The Rangers, meanwhile, in a bit of a surprise, are sending Andrew Heaney to the mound in the opener. Although it technically falls to Dane Dunning’s spot in the rotation at this point, everyone except Jordan Montgomery and Nathan Eovaldi was rested enough that anyone else could have been a choice. He's also a guy that wants to be out there and contribute in the big moment. He'll get the chance tomorrow.Heaney getting the nod in Game 1 doesn’t necessarily mean that the Rangers expect length from him. With it being Dunning’s regular turn, Heaney may be asked to only go once through the lineup and he might even be used for a shorter stint than that if the plan is to get him to match up against the potential lefties at the top of the Orioles’ lineup.
With their top two starters expended before Game 1, a shorthanded Rangers squad is opting for strategy from manager Bruce Bochy by naming Heaney their starter, and it may go beyond just the idea of merely matching up.In the three games that Texas played at Camden Yards in late-May, the Rangers slashed .278/.371/.472, hitting three homers and scoring 19 runs. In 81 games at Camden Yards, the Orioles slash .250/.315/.411.
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