All of those rookie fill-ins are keeping the injury-plagued Texas Rangers in playoff contention this season.

The Texas Rangers will look to continue their unlikely ascent in the American League playoff race as they pursue a series win over the major leagues' top team, the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Mariners and Rangers win and the Astros lose, complicating the AL West, Kyle Schwarber hits his 50th homer, a Red Sox rookie has a historic debut and more from Tuesday's MLB action.

Going into this weekend the Rangers were five games behind the Astros, and a game and a half behind the Mariners for the final wild card spot. In what was to be a highly anticipated series, at least among Rangers and Astros fans,

Cody Freeman rounded third base, and Globe Life Field -- which had been relatively quiet all afternoon -- grew louder and louder. Freeman slid into home plate before screaming toward the Rangers’ dugout with all of the energy of one of the youngest players on the roster.