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ARLINGTON, Texas -- There were about 51,000 Rangers fans in attendance for Game 5 of the World Series.
Considering each lost 10 pounds in nervous sweat during this crazy, inexplicable, tension-filled, dramatic, weird contest that defies all rational analysis, that’s a collective weight loss of 510,000 pounds.
In other good news for Rangers fans, their club won a game it had absolutely no right winning. How did they pull survive to pull this one out? Only the baseball gods know the answer to that one. The Rangers were charged with only two errors, but made five major defensive miscues; they issued four intentional walks; they walked nine batters altogether; they hit a batter and tossed a wild pitch; they threw 181 pitches in nine innings.
And they won. Somehow, the final score read: Texas Rangers 4, St. Louis Cardinals 2.
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