Randomness favored the Rangers, until Jason Kipnis broke the spell with a game-winning homer

Randomness pervades the world, even (especially) baseball games. Usually, the randomness maintains indifference to either team, benefiting neither. But sometimes, that randomness seems to go one team's way -- as it did during a couple of particular moments during Saturday's Indians-Rangers matchup. 

First, in the bottom of the fifth inning just as the Rangers had tied the game at 6, Elvis Andrus took off for second. As he slid in for the steal, Roberto Perez's throw plunked Andrus right in the back, and ricocheted into the outfield. So Andrus stood up, dusted himself off and rocketed off for home.

Naturally, he was safe and the Rangers went up 7-6:

Then, in the eighth inning with the game tied 7-7, the Indians' Jose Ramirez dribbled a grounder to Rangers second baseman Thomas Field, who threw the ball wide of first baseman Mitch Moreland. And yet, somehow, catcher Robinson Chirinos was there to collect the ball and toss it back to Moreland, just in time to catch Ramirez, who'd headed for second and turned back too late, out at first.

It made for a unique looking putout:

We may never know why the random forces of the world looked benevolently upon the Rangers Saturday night, but they certainly did ... at least for most of the game.

Cleveland won the game 10-8 in the end on Jason Kipnis' ninth-inning home run -- proving that nothing is immune to the brute power of a dinger.