In professional sports, some people crumble under pressure, and some people feed from it and perform better in those situations than they usually do.
This applies to MLB.
Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy is a proud member of the second group.
It seems that every time his teams play a crucial game or even a winner-take-all affair, his calmness and quiet confidence in himself and the abilities of his players give him an important edge.
The numbers don’t lie: when it is a winner-take-all game, he has never lost in his career.
Bruce Bochy was made for these moments. #Postseason pic.twitter.com/KNcARbtRTK
— MLB (@MLB) October 24, 2023
On Monday, Bochy’s Rangers went to Houston and played in front of a crowd of pro-Astros fans in an exciting Game 7.
It didn’t matter: Texas won, 11-4, and advanced to its first World Series since 2011.
It was the sixth time in six tries that a Bochy team wins such a game.
The first one of those wins came in the 2012 Division Series against the Cincinnati Reds, a best-of-five matchup that the San Francisco Giants won after taking Game 5.
Later, in the Championship Series that year, they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7.
The one-game playoff against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2014 qualifies as a winner-take-all game, as obviously does the Game 7 of the World Series vs. the Kansas City Royals.
Another Wild Card matchup vs. the New York Mets, still as the Giants’ manager, took his record to 5-0 in these games.
It’s now 6-0 after his Rangers beat the Astros on Monday night.
Bochy will play his fifth World Series and will try to win his fourth.
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