Needing a miracle, the Rangers had vowed to fight to their final gasp as they opened a last-stand four-game series against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim here Monday night. They never dreamed the Angels wouldn’t even give them room to breathe.
It wasn’t painless, but at least it was quick.
The Angels clinched the AL West championship by burying the Rangers, 11-0, forcing them to watch glumly from the visitors dugout as they celebrated in front of more than 40,000 fans at Angels Stadium.
In the Rangers’ postgame clubhouse there was no talk about the strides the team made this year, no satisfaction over staying in the race until the final week of the season.
“To be honest with you, the first thing that crosses my mind is just being [hissed] off,” said Michael Young, who returned to the Rangers’ lineup at third base for the first time in two weeks and only the second time this month. “I don’t care about the future or what our team shapes up like next year. I don’t care about that. I care about winning now.
“In the big leagues you either go to the postseason or you go home. We didn’t get it done and that’s not a good feeling.”
The Rangers began this final seven-game road trip knowing they had to win all seven games and then get some help from the A’s. Instead, they never had a chance.
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