Texas Rangers And Their Fans Celebrate 5-0 World Series Title With Parade In Arlington

ARLINGTON, Texas Thousands of Texas Rangers supporters had already formed a 2-mile queue near the team’s ballpark hours before a parade to commemorate the franchise’s first World Series win on Friday.

The parade comes two days after they won the World Series with a 5-0 triumph on the road against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 5. It occurred a week after Texas won the series opener on an 11th-inning homer by Adolis Garcia after Corey Seager tied the game with a two-run homer in the ninth.

World Series MVP Seager, AL Championship Series MVP Garcia, and all Rangers players were expected to march in the parade in Arlington’s entertainment district, which is midway between downtown Fort Worth and downtown Dallas.

The Rangers returned to North Texas on Thursday. All-Star second baseman Marcus Semien was the first to exit the plane, hoisting the World Series trophy as he stepped out.

Texas Rangers And Their Fans Celebrate World Series Title With Parade In Arlington

The parade route began on the south side of Globe Life Park and went along the side of AT&T Stadium, home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys,  up around Mark Holtz Lake, named after the late Rangers broadcaster, and then by their former ballpark, where they made their only other World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011. After the march returned to the retractable-roof stadium they have called home since 2020, the players were to address the crowd in an outdoor ceremony.

Arlington Mayor Jim Ross described the Rangers’ World Series victory as “a dream five decades in the making.”

The Rangers won their first title in their 63rd season as a franchise, which debuted in 1961 as the expansion Washington Senators before moving to Texas in 1972.

(AP) —