Tag: ALDS

Rangers fans embraced team’s Creed MLB Playoffs soundtrack by singing along to “Higher”

The Rangers are taking fans higher with an MLB Playoffs Creed sing-a-long.

The Texas Rangers have embraced Creed during this MLB Playoffs, and the fans are getting in on the grungy fun.

After the Rangers used Creed music to loosen up ahead of the ALDS series with the Baltimore Orioles, the team invited fans to sing along to the 1990s/2000s rock band’s hit “Higher” as the Rangers returned home to Globe Life Field for Game 3 of the series.

The Creed vibes have clearly worked, as the Rangers led the Orioles by the sixth inning on the way to a possible 3-0 series lead.

Rangers fans are clearly in on Creed, as this is a great reminder of how electric playoff baseball environments can be when your team is playing well. [anyclip-media thumbnail=”undefined” playlistId=”undefined” content=”dW5kZWZpbmVk”][/anyclip-media]

 

 

Creed has fully embraced the moment as the Rangers use their music to fuel playoff success.

If you’re the Orioles, well, it’s your sacrifice to endure this during what has been a disastrous playoffs so far.

If Creed really can take the Rangers higher to a World Series victory, we’re betting the band will get played at Texas games for years to come.

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Randy Arozarena’s steal of home was even cooler from up close

This angle is amazing.

There’s so much to love about baseball.

[Places fedora upon head.]

It’s the thinking person’s game. Strategy is everything! But also skill! Nothing is harder than hitting a baseball, except perhaps throwing one in such a way that nobody can hit it.

Can’t you smell the fresh-cut grass? The Cracker Jacks? The sticky stale absurdly expensive beer that some guy spilled in the 3rd–

[Removes fedora quickly.]

Sorry about that. Wait, do they still make Cracker Jacks?

Anyway, baseball’s great. It’s just that, compared to the free-flowing sports, displays of dramatic, world-class athleticism are relatively scattered.

Which makes Rays rookie Randy Arozarena’s daring steal of home in an ALDS game against Boston all the more thrilling, especially from this angle:

My favorite part of this video is that you can see the quarter-second of hesitation in Brandon Lowe when he thinks, “Wait, uhh, is Randy running at me? He is, right? Yes, yes, he’s trying to steal home, better step out.”

Honestly I just want to watch every angle of this, over and over.

According to Rays manager Kevin Cash, Arozarena had been begging to steal home for a while now, pleading by saying, “Verde, verde, verde.” Basically: Green light?

Thankfully he got it, scoring the final run in a 5-0 Game 1 victory. Arozarena became the first player ever to steal home and homer in a playoff game.

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