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 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 standingsAmerican League West standingsTeamWinsLossesGames BackHouston Astros7662-Seattle Mariners73653.0Texas Rangers72674.5American League Wild Card standingsTeamWinsLossesGames BackNew York Yankees7661+3.5Boston Red Sox7762+3.5Seattle Mariners7365-Texas Rangers72671.5Kansas City Royals70672.5Cleveland Guardians68684Tampa Bay Rays68694.5Wild Card series matchup
If the Rangers were to overtake the Seattle Mariners for the final Wild Card spot, they would face the Houston Astros in the playoffs, as Houston is the current No. 3 seed in the American League currently.
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