{"id":28499,"date":"2013-09-29T19:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28499"},"modified":"2013-09-29T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:50:37","slug":"a-l-one-game-playin-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28499","title":{"rendered":"A.L. One Game Playin Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP Sept 29, 2013) &#8212; The <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/tex\" data-rapid_p=\"8\">Texas Rangers<\/a> had to keep winning to keep playing. After seven wins in a row, they have to do it one more time to get into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/8574\" data-rapid_p=\"9\">Craig Gentry<\/a> had a key two-run single, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/7662\" data-rapid_p=\"10\">Geovany Soto<\/a> had a tiebreaking RBI double and a solo homer, and the Rangers beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/laa\" data-rapid_p=\"11\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> 6-2 Sunday to force a one-game tiebreaker for the second AL wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;They showed heart, fight, gut &#8211; any other adjective you want to find,&#8221; Rangers manager Ron Washington said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers (91-71), who began September with the AL West lead before a 5-15 slide, added game No. 163 to the regular season. They will host Tampa Bay on Monday night in baseball&#8217;s first wild-card tiebreaker since 2007. The winner plays two days later at wild-card leader Cleveland for a berth against Boston in the division series.<\/p>\n<p>About the same time Tampa Bay wrapped up its 7-6 win at Toronto to necessitate a victory by the Rangers, Gentry hit a two-run single in the fifth for a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has been in the playoffs the past three seasons, last year losing at home to Baltimore with Darvish on the mound in the AL&#8217;s first one-and-done wild-card game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP Sept 29, 2013) &#8212; The Texas Rangers had to keep winning to keep playing. After seven wins in a row, they have to do it one more time to get into the playoffs. Craig Gentry had a key two-run single, Geovany Soto had a tiebreaking RBI double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28501,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions\/28501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}