Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Texas Rangers World Series Preview
The 2023 World Series does not feature the matchup that anybody expected. Last season, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers combined to lose 182 games. Two seasons ago, they combined to lose 212 games. But, this season, one team will be immortalized as a World Series champion.
Arizona is 1-0 in previous World Series, as the expansion team in 1998 needed only four seasons to get to and win baseball’s ultimate prize on Luis Gonzalez’s walk-off single in Game 7 of the 2001 Fall Classic.
Texas, who actually started as the Washington Senators in 1961, didn’t even make the playoffs as a franchise until 1996. They are 0-2 in the World Series, losing in 2010 to the Giants and 2011 to the Cardinals. They hadn’t been back since up until this year and are the favorites to win the Commissioner’s Trophy and break a 62-year drought.
The World Series begins on Friday and Game 7 would be on Saturday November 4 if necessary.