The Race to the Trade Deadline did not start well.
The Rangers are racing to relevance. Do they have a team that can make the playoffs or don’t they?
They started the second half like they had so many times in the first half. No offense.
It didn’t help that Nathan Eovaldi had his worst start of the season, putting the Rangers in an insurmountable 4-0 hole before they even came to bat.
And the Orioles came to bat. Did they ever. Four in the first. Two in the fifth. Three in the seventh. They racked up eleven hits. The Rangers? Two. And one run, a Nathanial Lowe home run in the second.
The Rangers started their thirteen-game reality tour losing 9-1. Now they have twelve games to reveal who they are.
Maybe they already have.
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