ARLINGTON -- On Tuesday morning, the Rangers -- sitting 5 1/2 games out of the final AL Wild Card spot -- had a 6.9% chance to make the postseason, according to FanGraphs.

Those chances took a huge hit just hours later, when president of baseball operations Chris Young announced ace Nathan Eovaldi would miss the remainder of the regular season with a rotator cuff strain.

Eovaldi and his 1.73 ERA led the Rangers with an MLB-best 3.35 ERA entering Tuesday. Texas had won each of his last nine starts. Losing Eovaldi could have spelled the end of the season.

“It makes [things] a little bit more difficult when you lose a guy like Nate,” manager Bruce Bochy said pregame. “We’ve got a talented club. We're going to have to play great from this point on. I'm not looking at last night as a set

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