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On the morning of Aug. 26 , the Rangers were sitting 5 1/2 games out of the final American League Wild Card spot. FanGraphs had given them just a 6.9% chance to make the postseason at that point.

They seemed dead in the water well before that. Nearly everybody outside of that clubhouse counted them out. Now, the Rangers have won 16 of their last 20 games. FanGraphs gives them a 38.9% chance to make the postseason entering Sunday, more than quintupling their chances from two and a half weeks ago.

How do they keep this playoff push alive?

“[We have to] keep proving people wrong,” Jake Burger said at the end of the last

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