At the start of the MLB betting season, nobody would have believed that the Texas Rangers a team who hadn't made the playoffs in over a decade, would be in the finals vying for the franchise's first World Series ring. Baseball betting fans are watching the little engine that could franchise fight for their playoff lives as they are down one game to nothing against the San Francisco Giants. Who would have thought after the type of playoff Ranger ace Cliff Lee was having, that the Giants would be his kryptonite?

Going into the 2010 edition of the Fall Classic, nobody gave the Texas Rangers a chance to come out of the AL as league champions. Heck going into the season, we had the Rangers pegged as third in their own division, the American League West. As most of you may already know, the West is one of those divisions where you could jump out to an eight game lead by May and basically call yourself division champion.

After the LA Angels lost a few key players to season ending injury and the Mariners dropped off, the flood gates were open for the Rangers to swipe in and take charge of the division. As it turns out, the aggressive style that manager Ron Washington has allowed the team to use has been their saving grace.

In the League playoffs, the Texas Rangers were considered the longest shot of the four teams to go through. Who could blame the critics? The Rangers had to go through Tampa Bay in the first round and either New York or Minnesota in the second round. As it turned out the Rangers could play with all of these teams and are now in the World Series final.

Now after dropping game one in a high scoring affair, do the underdog Texas Rangers still have fight left in them? Or are they drained from the American League playoffs?