This just in: Elvis Andrus just committed another error.
Mercy! I was having flashbacks to the Oriole-Dodger Series back in about 1965 or 6. I was in Baltimore, and working with recording equipment while listening to the radio cast of one of the games. LA had an outfielder named, I think, "Agee.” He committed four errors in one game, and the announcer said, “It’s a record - a dubious record - for a World Series game.” I happened to record that in the background while I was making a loop of magnetic tape which had to be played over and over to analyze the data on other tracks. So I heard that exclamation over and over . . .I was beginning to think last night that that Rangers shortstop was going to break that record in a single inning!
As a (sob!) Phillies fan, I was rooting for Cole Hammels - albeit also for Ben Revere - and the title, Rangers Beat Rangers, struck me as exactly right. It could have said, “Rangers Beat Hammels” and been just as accurate; the first three batters in the seventh inning should have produced outs - and Hammels was “responsible” for all three of them as baserunners when he left. He was the losing pitcher - beaten by the Rangers themselves.