2024 Texas Rangers Recap: The Final Week

The last one

2024 Season Record: 78-84

2024 Series Record: 22-29, 1 split

The 2024 season has come to a close for the reigning World Series Champions.

While not exactly the fun and celebratory season we were all hoping for, the upside is a lot of our players are going to get a full offseason to recover from injuries most of them had since this time last year (Adolis Garcia’s knee) or at the very beginning of the season (Corey Seager’s sports hernia and Josh Jung’s wrist) as well as just getting a normal off season training (Jacob deGrom).

Hopeful outlook is majority of our returning players need this time to recover full before next season but that we also still have Bruce Bochy, who knows who to win a World Series every other season, and how to bounce back from an off year (in-between winning the 2012 and 2014 seasons, the San Francisco Giants had a 76-86 record in 2013).

And of course Wyatt Langford managed to grab one last history moment, he was voted MLB’s September American League Player of the month and Rookie of the month, the first Ranger to nab both honors in the same month

Game 157: 4-5 Loss @ Oakland Athletics

Game 158: 5-1 Win @ Oakland Athletics

Game 159: 2-3 Loss @ Oakland Athletics

At the very least, the Rangers had an interesting final week. First, being part of the final home series for the Oakland Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum.

And this was the one and only time I was happy the Rangers lost a rubber game. The Oakland fans don’t deserve to lose their team and therefore deserved a good final game.

As a Rangers fan, I remember not being able to stand hearing the Athletics’ fans through the broadcast. Hearing the horns, the drums, with fewer fans in the stadium, the instruments were that much louder and annoying. But after a couple years, I cam to appreciate that atmosphere, it’s the closest MLB had to to the atmosphere in Japan.

It makes it more of an experience and yes you could argue all baseball games have the potential to be an experience, theres 82 home games a year, if you go to all them, they’re not all going to be exciting. Oakland fans found a way to have fun at games that were not always so fun for their teams and that atmosphere is going to be missed. They were truly the most fun and exciting fan bases this sport has and because of a greedy owner, we’re not going to see that again.

Game 160: 5-2 Win @ Los Angeles Angels

Game 161: 9-8 Win @ Los Angeles Angels

Game 162: 8-0 Win @Los Angeles Angels

Not only did the Rangers sweep their final series of the season and shut out the Angels in the final game, they also managed to get one more player their MLB debut and they managed to perform!

Dustin Harris played in two games but got his first career walk, hit, and home run out of the way in those two games.

Oh and of course we got one last Beltre sighting of the season!