Texas Rangers at Minnesota Twins

In the span of two weeks, the most important weeks of the season, the Rangers lost their two most productive hitters -- Joc Pederson and Josh Jung -- to a fractured left hand and right wrist, respectively. Manager Skip Schumaker has said repeatedly over the last month that the Rangers need their “dudes to be dudes.” But that’s hard when the dudes aren’t available. “It's OK to be emotional at the time,” Schumaker said. “You can feel some emotion behind losing your one- and three-hole hitters. But the reality is, \[there are\