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By Shawn McFarland, The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — There were two separate instances in the last five years in which Jared Sandler learned that his wife, Emily, miscarried within a half hour of a Texas Rangers game.

He was devastated each time. He used the slim window between then and first pitch to process what he could and collect himself as much as one possibly can under such circumstances. He informed those closest to him on the radio team.

Then he wired himself into the microphone.

“The Rangers have made it clear, in those situations, no one’s forced me to work,” Jared said. “I feel like it’s my responsibility to work and it provides a little bit of an escape.”

The escape — once as the club’s pre-and-postgame radio voice, then as a

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