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October in August: Why This Week’s Yankees-Rangers Series Had a Playoff Feel

first-place Texas Rangers, who have reached the World Series in each of the past two seasons, haven't played quite as well as in the previous two seasons.

Still, they added some rotation depth at the trading deadline with Ryan Dempster, and they seemed to have weathered a major slump from Josh Hamilton. On August 13th they were 67-46, had won seven of their last ten games, and were 6.5 games in front of Oakland for the AL West division lead. 

Then, they came to New York. 

Four games against the Yankees proved to the world why home-field advantage matters so much once the playoffs start. Let's take a look at the first two games of the series. 

In the first game, David Phelps started against Dempster. This game ...

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