The Oakland A’s are a couple hours away from starting the final game in a three game series at Texas. The A’s picked up game one and two by beating the Rangers 9-3 and 5-3 respectively. Texas has now dropped to 9 games back and is all but out of it. There are just 31 games left in the season for most teams. If the Rangers are going to keep hope alive, they must win tonight and get back to within 8 games. Since they are trailing a second team—the Angels—the task is twice as difficult.