'One game to settle it all': Astros-Rangers clash one final time in Game 7 of ALCS

HOUSTON — The battle for American League superiority has played out across 250 miles of I-45, from a raucous downtown ballpark in Houston to a master-planned ode to suburban comfort in Arlington. And after seven months of baseball, after 19 head-to-head engagements and six adrenaline-fueled battles in this AL championship series, the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers will contest nine more innings to decide a ticket to the World Series. It is a baseball first: A Texas-sized Game 7. This ALCS coda seems like fate to many of its participants,...