I'm a fan of Interleague play in baseball. I attended the first ever interleague game in 1999 featuring the Rangers and the Giants at The Ballpark. As a baseball fan, I enjoy seeing National League teams like the Cubs, Dodgers and Mets that we wouldn't normally see unless the Rangers played in the World Series. The Rangers have an overall record of 112-118 in ten years of interleague play. This isn't the most impressive record- in fact its toward the bottom of the league but one team the Rangers love to play are the Houston Astros. The Rangers lead the all-time series 28-26 but they have won the season series now four years in a row after going 5-1 this year. Their first meeting of the year was a crucial 11 inning victory in which Nelson Cruz hit a go ahead homer in the 11th inning to snap a three game losing streak.
The next two games were really not even close with the Rangers winning 6-3 and 5-0 respectively. Brandon McCarthy threw his first career complete in the series finale to give Texas a three game sweep.
The following series was also won by the Rangers 2-1 at home this time. Ian Kinsler led the Rangers with two home-runs in the first game of the series. Home-runs have been a common occurrence against the Astros over the years. Texas has set major league records with two games with eight homers or more over the years. In 2009, the homers haven't quite come that easily but they have outscored the Astros 28-13 in the season series which is pretty impressive.
I have a lot of friends that are Astros fans and most of them don't have much respect for the Rangers. Their argument is that Rangers have never been to a World Series(I guess that's true but we've also never been swept in the World Series either) let alone win a playoff series. They can have the title of worst team to get a fall classic because we've got the Silver Boot. It's really all about what you've done for me lately,right?
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