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And with that 5-2 loss, the Rangers have completed one of the most frustrating, fun, hair-pulling, and crazy seasons we’ve ever seen. Game 163 was the end for this group, and in a sense, the Elvis Andrus bunt into the 2nd out in the 8th inning of what was then a 2-run game pretty much summed up this season.

This ball club is talented, but this season, just didn’t have the execution quite down to perfection and left too many plays out on the field.

Furthermore, regardless of where you stand on the issue, Jon Daniels has come out and said that Ron Washington will definitely be returning in 2014. For my part, I can’t help but hope it’ll be as a bench coach, but that would be silly because we all know that won’t happen. Perhaps most frustrating is that we’re less than two years removed from the Rangers being so close to the whole enchilada, and we want it so bad that it’s hard to accept anything else.

It was overall a great season, but man, it left me wanting more. I just hope next year is “the year”. Or maybe the one after that.

Or maybe this is all a dream and Game 163 is actually tomorrow when I wake up.

But probably not.

The Rangers, left for dead as little as a week ago, earned a chance to stay alive.

Wow… Baseball.

I know the GIF is from yesterday’s game, but it seemed fitting nonetheless. Tomorrow, we’ll see if the Rangers have another win up their sleeve, as Nelson Cruz will presumably return to the lineup to face David Price.

A win in Game 163, once again, earns the chance to play one more game.

After 161 games, we are no closer to knowing the fate of the 2013 Rangers. Win tomorrow, and the ball club is guaranteed at least one extra game. For the first time in awhile, the Rangers control their own fate. Let’s do this.

Yeah, I’ve been gone a little while. To be honest, between my real job and everything else, the Rangers have left me somewhat speechless since the start of the month. To do much writing when they’re punchless as they’ve been much of the month seems to be an overreaction, while overreacting to each win seems to be just that.

Yet, here we are, with three games to go, and the Rangers find themselves within striking distance. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but I know that Jurickson Profar, who by all counts is much more reliable than David Murphy despite the playing time saying otherwise as of late, vaulted the Rangers to a win. Had the Rangers lost, their postseason chances would have been all but lost; not mathematically of course, but theoretically.

This ball club, with the way it has pitched, hit, and managed this month, doesn’t deserve to be in this position… but baseball.