PHOENIX — The Rangers, stuck in a three-game losing streak that has pushed their season to the brink, pulled their last roster lever on Saturday, activating Josh Jung and Nathan Eovaldi. 

“Hopefully it provides a spark,” manager Skip Schumaker said. “Josh was arguably our best hitter when he got hurt, so to put him back in the three hole, in the middle of some big lefties is a big deal. To have him fully healthy and on the lineup is pretty exciting.”

It presents the Rangers’ offense an opportunity to play their expected four biggest producers – Corey Seager, Wyatt Langford, Brandon Nimmo and Jung – in the lineup together for the first time since June 11. The quartet has only played 26 games together this season and not since June 11.

Jung was slashing .294/.361/.441/.802 before the calf injury sidelined him and had been the Rangers’ most consistent and complete hitter for much of the season. The key to making a big impact for Jung? Not trying to make too big of an impact.

“I need to keep my goals small,” Jung said. “I tell myself just move the ball forward and don’t try to do too much because the adrenaline is probably going to be the highest amount I’ve had in a while. So, do everything I can to stay in control.”

As for Eovaldi, who will pitch in relief, there may be no area on the team where reinforcement is more needed at the moment than the bullpen. The Rangers have a 5.74 relief ERA over the last month, ranked No. 27 in baseball.

“We all know what [Eovaldi] means to our club and in that clubhouse,” Schumaker said. “Having him available in the bullpen is exciting, whether that’s as an opener, for multiple innings or one inning of leverage. It’s all TBA. But to just have him as an option is important.”

While Eovaldi will be pitching in an unfamiliar role, he did not want to place any limits on how the Rangers handled him. He did not throw more than two innings of a simulated game in his recovery, but said he’d be eligible to go longer than that.

“Given where we’re at in the season and the build-up [to starting], I think we can kind of maneuver to be available out of the bullpen and have some meaningful innings, and with the mindset of making the postseason and being able to be built up as a starter by then as well,” Eovaldi said.

“The last month has been frustrating. We’ve been like a Jekyll-and-Hyde team where we go out there and play extremely good baseball, and then we come in the next day, and it’s like pretty much the opposite of what we did the night before. We’ve been talking about it all season long, about getting it rolling and getting it going, and it just we just haven’t been able to do that, and that’s frustrating.”

To make room on the roster for Jung and Eovaldi, the Rangers optioned DH Logan O’Hoppe and lefty Adam Macko back to Triple-A. O’Hoppe, acquired in late July, had a .745 OPS in 18 games with the Rangers, but his role was essentially to DH against lefties and that may be disappearing with Jung’s return. Macko, who was acquired at the trade deadline from Toronto for Josh Smith, had an 8.10 ERA in seven appearances for the Rangers.