{"id":150636,"date":"2025-09-17T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150636\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:19:10","slug":"wednesday-morning-links-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150636\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Morning Links &#8211; Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Morning, all!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michael Helman has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/who-is-michael-helman-things-to-know-texas-rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:acquitted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">acquitted<\/a> himself well in his rookie campaign, so here are five facts about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Evan Grant says that the Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/texas-rangers-mlb-playoff-race-standings-wild-card-al-west\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:playoff hopes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">playoff hopes<\/a> hinge on the bullpen, the star hitters playing like star hitters, and collecting wins against the Twins and Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yordan Alavarez is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/houston-astros-yordan-alvarez-ankle-injury-texas-rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:going to be out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">going to be out<\/a> indefinitely after spraining his ankle stepping on home plate in the Astros\u2019 win over the Rangers on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Danny Coloumbe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/texas-rangers-danny-coulombe-injured-list-return-bullpen-houston-astros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:return;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">return<\/a> is a much needed reinforcement to the bullpen in the Rangers\u2019 final playoff push.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Winston Santos and Emiliano Teodo have both been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/texas-rangers-top-prospects-winston-santos-emiliano-teodo-triple-a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:promoted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">promoted<\/a> to AAA Round Rock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Adolis Garcia was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/texas-rangers-adolis-garcia-injured-list-lineup-bruce-bochy-houston-astros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:not in the lineup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">not in the lineup<\/a> last night and may not be tonight, as he is still not 100% and Bruce Bochyis electing to go with the \u201c\u201chot hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Last night Wyatt Langford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/texas-rangers-wyatt-langford-20-home-runs-20-steals-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:became;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">became<\/a> the youngest player in Ranger history to hit 20 homers and steal 20 bases in a season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It looked like the Rangers were going to have another comeback win last night but fell just short.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jake Burger is 0 for 7 with 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/texas-rangers-jake-burger-houston-astros-al-wild-card-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:strikeouts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">strikeouts<\/a> in the middle of the order thus far in a critical series against Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tuesday\u2019s wasted opportunities and valiant late rally that ultimately fell short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/09\/16\/texas-rangers-houston-astros-al-wild-card-frustrating-2025-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:may turn out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">may turn out<\/a> to be the Rangers\u2019 2025 season in microcosm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was ultimately the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/rangers\/news\/rangers-wild-card-hopes-take-hit-in-loss-to-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rotation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">rotation<\/a> that let the Rangers down last night, which hasn\u2019t been the norm for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morning, all! Michael Helman has acquitted himself well in his rookie campaign, so here are five facts about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[55359,7676,49,48,1443,4405,71492,462,11714,82,63158,79864],"class_list":["post-150636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-astros","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-houston","tag-jake-burger","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-sports","tag-the-rangers","tag-wyatt-langford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}