Texas Rangers Fall Out Of First Place In The A.L.

The Texas Rangers and Martin Perez had an off outing in their first game of three against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday night which resulted in them falling out of first place in the A.L. race. Even though the Rangers have clinched their division, home field advantage is in a dead heat of a race in the A.L.

The Boston Redsox have been surging and had the day off while the Texas Rangers game Monday resulted in a loss to a sub .500 team. The Rangers are now .5 games behind the Redsox and now only have a .5 lead on the Cleveland Indians as well. At the very worst the Rangers need to keep that lead on the Indians in order to ensure some type of home field advantage in a playoff series.

4-1 is was the Rangers will most likely need to go in order to have a chance at catching the RedSox who have won 11 straight games to surge into first place. There will be one more full rotation of the pitching staff so this record should be possible. The Rangers will only be facing 2 pitchers that have winning records through those games from two bad teams in the Brewers and the Rays.

This full spin of the rotation will allow the players one last practice before the real test in the playoffs begin. Securing home field advantage would be a big deal for the Rangers who are 50-26 in Globe Life Park this season.

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Even though the Texas rangers did lose to Matt Garza and the Brewers Monday, there were a couple of bright spots that occurred. Relief pitcher Jeremy Jeffress had his first outing since rejoining the team after a stint in rehab following an arrest for a DUI. Jeffress got through 1.1 innings with 0 hits allowed and 1 strikeouts all on 16 pitches. This was a good outing and allowed him to show off his conditioning before the playoffs begin.

A young pitcher in Jose Leclerc was brought in for the last inning of work and only allowed 1 hit, with 1 strikeout all on 13 pitches. Leclerc may possibly be a good part of the Texas Rangers bullpen in 2017.

No need to panic just yet because of the Rangers going 5-5 through their last 10 games but there needs to be a sense of urgency. How important do you think home field advantage is during the playoffs?

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