AL West Late Push: Rangers' Surprising Surge in Standings

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00:00Let's take a look at the American League West standings as they stand currently, Donnie.

00:04Houston, 76 and 63.

00:06Seattle, 73 and 66.

00:09Texas, 72 and 68.

00:11The Angels and A's are both out of it.

00:13And as you mentioned before, we'll play spoiler.

00:16So should we be wary of the Rangers now at this point?

00:19They do have a couple of equalizers there in their rotation.

00:22One could miss the rest of the regular season, Nate Uvalde.

00:25But let's not forget Jacob deGrom is there too.

00:28It feels like the Guardians to me, right?

00:29Where the Guardians were like, okay, let's trade everybody away at the deadline.

00:31And oh, no, they're playing really good baseball now.

00:33It's like the Rangers woke up on the season when a lot of their good players got injured

00:37and their starting pitching went down.

00:39Look at them over the past 10 games, eight and two overall.

00:41They're only four and a half games back.

00:43Not from the wild card, from winning that division.

00:45So why can't they play at least spoiler down the stretch

00:48and put some pressure on those two top teams?

00:50Because also, when you look at Houston and you look at Seattle,

00:53they're not playing great baseball right now.

00:55They should be much better here.

00:56The Astros just went through a funk where they barely could get any runners scored

00:59in scoring position.

01:01And now you take a look at your best pitcher and your catchers

01:04fighting while you're on the mound by getting slaughtered by the Yankees 7-1.

01:07It would be crazy if the Rangers, who I thought at the beginning of the season, Craig,

01:10would actually win the pennant.

01:13And now saying they're playing their best baseball without their best players.

01:15Make it make sense because it doesn't to me.

01:17So I'm looking at this – I can't wait for maintenant.

01:21So…

01:22I'm waiting for this to me.

01:22So I'm going to throw this ash at theokus that I don't hear.

01:24And then I'm looking for this