{"id":55848,"date":"2025-05-17T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=55848"},"modified":"2025-05-17T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:25:56","slug":"jake-burger-credits-pope-power-for-his-rangers-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=55848","title":{"rendered":"Jake Burger credits Pope Power for his Rangers turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overflow-hidden bg-lightGrey\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_4,w_3740,h_2103\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/132\/01jvd2x0kv3a2pjewxxs.jpg\" alt=\"Houston Astros v Texas Rangers\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Houston Astros v Texas Rangers | Sam Hodde\/GettyImages<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">Native Midwesterner and former Chicago White Sox Jake Burger using the power of Pope Leo XIV as inspiration since returning from Triple-A Round Rock earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">The Rangers first baseman made news after an excerpt on Thursday nights Rangers Sports Network broadcast between the Rangers and Astros where Burger referenced the new pope, a Chicago native, and the Rangers hot streak has a correlation.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">Texas is in the middle of a six game winning streak, their longest since their playoff run in 2023, taking 2 of 3 from Detroit, sweeping Colorado and taking the series opener against Houston thanks to Burger.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">In Burger&#8217;s first at-bat of the night, the first baseman doubled and celebrated at second with a wave and prayer hands. A nod to the new pope, who is a fellow Midwesterner, like Burger.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">\u201cBasically, I kind of thought: New Pope, new me. He\u2019s a Midwestern guy like me. I was proud. And since he\u2019s been elected Pope, we\u2019ve been rather hot,&#8221; Burger told the Dallas Morning News after the game.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">If the divine intervention on the double wasn&#8217;t enough for you, what Burger did later in the game might convince you. In a scoreless pitcher&#8217;s duel, Burger stepped into the box to leadoff the sixth inning and took a Hunter Brown fastball opposite field into the Rangers&#8217; dugout, which ended up being the game&#8217;s deciding run.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">A Catholic, Burger was in the middle of his Round Rock stint after starting the season with a .190 batting average. In his return to the big leagues, Burger is 5-for-12 with a double, home run and two runs driven in.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">Burger said he not only feels the pope deserves some credit for Texas&#8217;s recent win streak but also hinted that as a White Sox fan he wasn&#8217;t happy about Burger being traded from the White Sox to Miami a few seasons ago.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">\u201cI think it would be a disservice to him, not to give him some credit. He\u2019s a White Sox fan. I\u2019d like to think he didn\u2019t like the trade and maybe he put in a little blessing for me. So, I told the guys, if I get to second, my new double sign is going to be the wave,&#8221; he said to the Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">If the new pope does indeed have some kind of role in the Rangers hot streak, please keep it up Pope Leo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native Midwesterner and former Chicago White Sox Jake Burger using the power of Pope Leo XIV as inspiration since returning from Triple-A Round Rock earlier thi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jake Burger credits Pope Power for his Rangers turnaround - 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