Somewhere around the seventh or eighth straight loss, a few of the Rangers started wondering whether they would ever win a game again. Not Bruce Bochy. Just ask him.
“I wasn’t panicking!” he bellows through gritted teeth. “I’m telling you!”
He grins. He’s kidding. Of course he has been losing his mind over the past two weeks, as his team turned a 3½-game division lead into third place—a game behind the Mariners and Astros, who are tied for first, and only 2½ ahead of the Blue Jays for the final wild-card slot.
