With Marcus Semien, Nathan Eovaldi and Corey Seager all potentially out for the remainder of the Texas Rangers’ regular season, the team’s odds of sneaking into the MLB playoffs looked slim at best.
However, since many of the team’s stars have gone down, the Rangers have managed to string together some wins and put themselves firmly back in the mix for a postseason berth.
Follow along below with our Rangers playoff and standings tracker.
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How the MLB playoffs work
The best team in each of the three divisions in the American League and National League earn an automatic berth into the MLB playoffs, plus the three best remaining teams in the AL and NL get Wild Card spots. In total, 12 teams qualify for the postseason.
The playoffs begin with Wild Card series, where the Wild Card team with the worst record plays the division winner with the worst record and the two Wild Card teams with the best and second-best records face off. All series in the Wild Card round are best-of-three games.
The two division winners in the AL and NL receive byes into the divisional round, where they await the winners of the Wild Card round.
Rangers’ current standings
American League West standings
American League Wild Card standings
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