Rangers join rare company with Game 2 ALCS win over Astros

4 of the previous 5 earlier groups reached the World Sequence and two received the title. 

The Astros grew to become the fifth crew in league historical past to realize the feat solely a season in the past en path to the franchise’s second World Sequence title.

Houston swept the Mariners and Yankees earlier than dropping Recreation 1 of the World Sequence to Philadelphia, ultimately profitable the sequence in six video games.

Earlier than them, the Atlanta Braves started the 2020 postseason 7-0, sweeping a best-of-three wild-card sequence, the NLDS, and profitable the primary two video games of the NLCS over the Dodgers. Nonetheless, Los Angeles received 4 of the subsequent 5 video games within the sequence and would go on to win its first World Sequence since 1988.

The 2014 Royals maintain the longest win streak to start a postseason, profitable their first eight video games earlier than dropping within the World Sequence to the Giants, 4-3.

The Rockies grew to become the second crew to win their first seven video games within the postseason in 2007 in opposition to the Phillies and Diamondbacks earlier than being swept within the World Sequence by the Crimson Sox.

The 1976 Reds had been the primary crew to realize the feat when MLB solely had two postseason rounds, a best-of-five LCS and a best-of-seven World Sequence.

That Reds crew is the one crew to complete undefeated within the playoffs because the league expanded the postseason in 1969.

Nearly as good because the Rangers should really feel, this sequence is much from over. Houston received the common season sequence 9-4 and was among the many greatest highway groups this yr, ending 51-30 away from Minute Maid Park.

A seven-game win streak to start the postseason is sweet, however profitable the subsequent six can be nicer.