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The Hardline- The Texas Rangers are bleeding out

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🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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August 15th, 2025

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0:00.0

We've known that this Ranger season has been on the brink from the first pitch.

0:04.7

Corby told us so.

0:06.1

Corby made it so.

0:06.8

He labeled it as such.

0:08.6

Which I didn't know what that really meant at the time.

0:11.8

It was just hot air from Corby at the time.

0:15.1

But now it's starting to make a lot of sense.

0:18.1

As the Rangers in their current spot have lost six of seven with 40 games left in the regular

0:25.2

season, they find themselves three and a half back of the Yankees for the third and final

0:29.4

wildcard spot in the American League, and they trail Houston by seven and a half in the

0:35.2

division leading into their seven-game road trip beginning

0:39.3

tonight in Toronto, as Will Connerley told you on the ticker. That is the best record in

0:44.7

the American League, second best record in baseball trailing only the Milwaukee Brewer. So

0:49.8

you are getting down to the point in the season where you've got a couple of more series against Houston to go, but you've also got a lot of games remaining against teams that are still playing for a lot.

1:03.2

Toronto is trying to maintain their spot.

1:05.9

You've got Cleveland, who is in the mix for the wildcard race.

1:08.9

You've got a three-game series against Milwaukee.

1:13.8

You close the season with Cleveland.

1:15.7

So you are going to have a lot of competitive series moving down the stretch here,

1:21.3

and it does feel a little bit like the Rangers are on their last breath. I'm not going to say they're dead. I'm not going to say

1:29.9

they're even dying. I'm going to say they're not playing well at a time to where Houston seems to be

1:34.4

playing extremely well. And the other teams that are in the mix for the American League Wildcard are

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