Texas Rangers Reportedly Turned To Listening To Creed To Spark Second-Half Turnaround

“We’ve seen our share of ups and downs. Oh, how quickly life can turn around.”

These are the inspirational words of legendary 90s and early 2000s in their hit single “My Sacrifice.”

Those words also describe the 2023 Texas Rangers, who are currently one game away from reaching the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2011.

The Rangers were the kings of the MLB offseason after signing superstar Jacob DeGrom and fellow ace Nathan Eovaldi.

They got off to a hot as well, holding a 47-28 record and 6.5-game lead in the AL West over the reigning champion Houston Astros in late June.

But it wasn’t all good news. DeGrom was shut down early in the season with elbow soreness and had to have Tommy John surgery in mid-June.

After a brief slump, Texas won its first six games following the All-Star break.

But that’s when the wheels began to come off. The Rangers closed June with a 2-7 record in their last three series and their lead in the division fell to just half of a game.

Houston took the division lead in late August and went on to win the division. But the Rangers steadied themselves enough to clinch the second Wild Card spot in the American League.

After a 2-0 sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays in the Wild Card round, Texas finds itself up 2-0 on the Orioles and on the cusp of a series victory.

But how did things turn around?

Well, they turned to Creed.

Rangers pre and post-game show host Jared Sandler shared that Rangers starter said that the team “started having fun and playing Creed before games.”

Heaney told Sandler that he hoped the band would play at Globe Life Field prior to Game 3 of the ALDS.

Here’s hoping we get some sort of recreation of the band’s incredible 2001 Dallas Cowboys halftime show.