The Rangers are World Series champions for the first time in their 52-year franchise history after beating the Diamondbacks 5-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to win the best-of-seven series, 4-1.
Texas and Arizona were deadlocked in a 0-0 tie through six innings, as D-backs starter Zac Gallen allowed no runs and no hits in his first six innings of work, and Rangers starter Nathan Eovaldi worked his way out of trouble in six scoreless innings of his own.
Eovaldi would ultimately earn the win in Game 5, improving to 5-0 for the postseason and winning his second World Series ring.
Gallen returned for the seventh, and the Rangers offense finally went to work. World Series MVP Corey Seager led off the inning with an opposite-field dribbler that went into left field for a single.
Evan Carter came to the plate and smacked a double into center field and advanced Seager to third to bring up Mitch Garver, who was in a 1-for-17 slump in the championship series.
Garver laced Gallen's four-seam fastball up the middle to score Seager, putting Texas up 1-0.
Gallen then got Josh Jung to strike out before reliever Kevin Ginkel came on to get Nathaniel Lowe and Jonah Heim out, ending the inning without further damage allowed.
Rangers manager Bruce Bochy turned to Aroldis Chapman in the seventh inning with the top of the D-backs order coming to the plate.
Chapman got Corbin Carroll to fly out to begin the inning. He then walked Ketel Marte and rebounded by striking out Gabriel Moreno.
Bochy then called upon Josh Sborz to face Christian Walker, and the right-hander delivered by getting him to line out to Leody Taveras in center field.
Texas loaded the bases in the eighth, but Ginkel was able to strike out Evan Carter and get Garver to ground out to keep the score at 1-0.
Sborz remained in the ballgame in the eighth and struck out Tommy Pham and got Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to ground out. Diamondbacks outfielder Alek Thomas came up and singled to center in an effort to start a two-out rally, but Sborz got pinch-hitter Pavin Smith to strike out looking to end the inning.
Arizona turned to closer Paul Sewald for the first time in the series since Corey Seager hit a game-tying two-run home run off of him in the ninth inning of Game 1, and Texas did more damage off of the right-hander.
Texas began the inning with back-to-back singles by Jung and Nathaniel Lowe, bringing Jonah Heim to the plate, who was 1-for-16 in the World Series. Heim singled to center and the ball got underneath Thomas' glove and almost to the wall. Jung scored easily and Lowe came around to score on the error, giving Texas a 3-0 lead.
After Leody Taveras and Travis Jankowski got out, Marcus Semien came to the plate and launched a two-run blast into the left field seats to put the game out of reach at 5-0.
Sborz returned for the ninth and struck out Geraldo Perdomo. He then got Carroll to foul out, before striking out Marte, to clinch the club's first championship.