Here are MLB magic numbers, remaining schedules and tiebreakers for contenders through Friday, Sept. 12, along with playoff matchups if Wild Card Series began Saturday, Sept. 13.

Rangers manager Bruce Bochy always says that to have a good season, you need your core guys to have their typical seasons, in addition to a few surprises along the way. The first two games against the Brewers this week included a big surprise by Michael Helman.

Meawhile, the Texas Rangers have been red-hot and enter Wednesday trailing the Houston Astros by just one game in the AL West.From NFL plays to college sports scores, all the top sports news you need to know every day.

This is the same way the season started for the Milwaukee Brewers. That three-game sweep at the New York Yankees more than five months ago was long before Milwaukee had the best record in the major leagues.

Tonight’s starter for New York Jonah Tong — a top prospect who had allowed just 18 earned runs in 113.2 minor league innings this year — didn’t even make it out of the first inning against Texas’ virtually minor league lineup. Tong got two outs but the Rangers scored six runs in the first inning, their most in an opening frame since 2022.

If someone told an avid baseball fan that the Texas Rangers, despite their losses of Nathan Eovaldi, Marcus Semien and Corey Seager, would be playing like the

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.

The Seattle Mariners are in a tight race with the Texas Rangers for an American League Wild Card spot and need one player to come up clutch.

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