At the moment it appears the Rangers are going to make the playoffs and possibly even win the division barring a major meltdown in Seattle this weekend. 

That’s all well and good but it’s very difficult to see us even getting out of the first round because we’ve proven all year we don’t win close games and very few playoff games are not close. 

Last night’s game where we blew a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the ninth was a perfect example. 

I could ask the Google machine how many MLB playoff games have historically been decided by 4 or more runs but I don’t need to ask the Google machine that question bc I already know it’s a very small percentage. 

Close games being the rule, it’s hard to imagine this team just magically turning things around and winning such games when they’ve been losing them all season with regularity. 

The only real hope we have is that someone in the bullpen rises to the challenge and performs at a higher level than they’ve been performing at to this point or maybe even running starters out in reliever roles. 

Hopefully Bochy has a couple tricks up his sleeve for the postseason because he’s gonna need em.