Thoughts on a 5-4 Rangers win
DENVER, CO - MAY 20: (L-R) Jacob Latz #67, Josh Jung #6, Joc Pederson #3 and Jake Burger #21 of the Texas Rangers celebrate their 5-4 win against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on May 20, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images) | Getty Images Rangers 5, Rockies 4 ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH, COLORADO! ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH, COLORADO!
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! The Rangers won. They shot the bb gun.
This is now two straight Wednesdays where the Rangers won due to a ninth inning comeback. And this game didn’t even involved blowing a lead in the ninth inning first. It did involve things going south for Jack Leiter relatively quickly in the middle innings.
But let’s focus on the positive aspect of things. The good things. Like Leiter’s first three innings, where he did give up a run in the first on a single, a stolen base and another single, but retired the other nine batters he faced, and struck out the side in the second.
Let’s not talk about the fourth inning, where, having just been given a 3-1 lead, he walked two consecutive batters with two outs, the second of which coming on a 3-2 pitch which was initially called a strike and then was overturned on an ABS challenge. It seemed like there was a fair amount of ABS activity in the game. I could be wrong.
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