Game 3 opens new chapter at Globe Life Field

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ARLINGTON — Rangers common supervisor and Dallas native Chris Young got here to the group with the imaginative and prescient of bringing postseason baseball again to North Texas. 

Young was within the midst of his 13-year MLB profession in the course of the group’s finest years with back-to-back American League pennants in 2010-11. Now, again in his hometown after a short stint within the Commissioner’s Office following his retirement from the sphere, Young is prepared for a packed home at Globe Life Field for its actual postseason debut when the Rangers host the Orioles for Game 3 of the American League Division Series.

“I just remember seeing everybody wearing red and the Texas ‘T’ and the pride in the community and just how special it was for our fans,” Young recalled of his childhood in DFW. “I’m certainly excited to relive that. I skipped a generation when I was playing playoff baseball, but here we are again. I’m thrilled for our organization and especially for our fans, who have waited a while for this.”

Globe Life Field’s inaugural season, like many issues in 2020, was disrupted by the pandemic. Those 16 postseason video games (NLDS, NLCS, World Series) had been the one video games wherein followers had been allowed, in a restricted capability, till the next season.

Three years later, Texas drew 2,533,044 followers, probably the most since 2016, which is the final time the Rangers hosted a postseason sport.

“I really haven’t thought much about 2020,” Young mentioned on Monday. “I just know this is a new building. It’s a new era of Rangers baseball. Now to have a playoff game at home, I’m super excited for our fans. This is what I’ve envisioned so many times when I’ve walked in there and just looked around. Just to have a packed house full of 40,000 fans rocking and cheering on their home team, I think it’s just great for our community.”

The Rangers are returning residence from an 11-game, 14-day street journey, together with stops at Los Angeles and Seattle to finish the common season after which at Tampa Bay and Baltimore to start the postseason.

The paint has been freshly positioned on the turf in Globe Life Field, with 2023 POSTSEASON down each baselines, representing precisely what Rangers followers have been eagerly anticipating for years now. After a weekend at Camden Yards, the place the group and environment lived as much as the hype, its Texas counterpart is prepared for its postseason debut.

“For me, I’m looking forward to it,” first-year Texas supervisor Bruce Bochy mentioned. “For Ranger followers, hopefully they’re actually excited as a result of it has been a short while. It wasn’t all that way back once they had been having quite a lot of postseason video games. So to have the primary one right here at Globe Life Field, I’m honored to be a part of that, and to be a part of what is going on on proper now.

“It’s a tough journey getting here. But it’s good to be here, and I’m looking forward to just seeing the atmosphere. It’s going to be an exciting time.”

The Rangers had been 50-31 (.617) at residence in 2023, good for the fourth-best residence successful share in MLB, behind the Dodgers and Rays at 53-28 (.654) and the Braves at 52-29 (.642). 

The membership desires that home-field benefit to play in its favor. 

“That’s why we came here,” Marcus Semien mentioned in reference to, together with Corey Seager, signing with the Rangers in free company. “Our fans have been great all year. We’ve played great at home all year and we’re playing great now. We just need to continue what we have been doing.”