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El Supremo

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Thu Aug 1, 2013, 03:22 PM Aug 2013

Three consecutive walk-off home runs by the Rangers!



The Rangers disposed of the division-rival Angels in dramatic fashion this week, beating them three nights in a row with a home run in the final at-bat of the game.

They're still two short -- look out, D-backs -- of the all-time walk-off streak, which was set by the Astros when they recorded five consecutive dramatic wins from July 19-23, 1986, against the Mets and the Expos.

The last team to sweep a three-game series on three walk-off homers was the D-backs, who did it to the Expos, May 10-12, 1999. Also recently, the Yankees won on three straight walk-off hits May 15-17, 2009.

The Rangers had gone more than a year without a walk-off home run before turning in three in a row this week, but they had never hit them in three consecutive games. Their only instances of back-to-back walk-off-homer games were Aug. 5-6, 1978, and Oct. 2-3, 1981.

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