After a horrid stretch in which they lost 16 out of 20, the Rangers enter play this weekend on a six-game winning streak.
And that has the team talking postseason a little more confidently -- including postseason tickets.
The Rangers are making postseason tickets available through a lottery system.
"Fans can go on to rangers.com/insider, and they can register for the opportunity to purchase up to four tickets to one possible home game at this point of the first two rounds," John Blake, Executive Vice President of Communications, said. "That registration is underway. It will continue until next Monday night at 11:59 p.m."
After that time, they will draw names.
"Registrants will be randomly pulled," says Blake. "They'll be notified by next Wednesday, and then they'll get information on how they can go in and purchase the tickets."
Those people will have the opportunity to purchase up to four tickets for one game in either the Division Series or the Wild Card Series, although there is very little chance given the current standings that the Rangers would be hosting the Wild Card round.
The Wild Card round is a best-of-three series, with the higher seeded team (division champion with the worst record or non-champion with the best record) hosting all three games.
There are two ways the Rangers can host the Wild Card Series, and both are very unlikely at this point: either win the AL West and be caught by the Minnesota Twins who sit six games behind the Rangers entering Friday night (the Twins hold the tiebreak), or be the non-champion with the best record, and they trail the Tampa Bay Rays in that regard by eight games.
Those whose names are not pulled this time around can potentially have an opportunity to score tickets to a game in a subsequent round.
"If the Rangers -- knock on wood -- are lucky enough to keep advancing for an American League Championship Series or World Series, you'll be in the pool there for those random opportunities," Blake says.
This is not the first time that the Rangers have used a lottery system for postseason tickets -- they also did so in 2015 and 2016.
"It seems to be the most equitable way to do it now, to give as many people as possible a chance to buy tickets to a postseason game," says Blake.
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