The season's last injury lands where Texas could least afford it.

Josh Jung broke his hand, and I've already written that note. What I haven't written yet is what it means sitting here with two games left and a roster that has been whittled down all year. Jung was hitting .312 in 42 games — limited by earlier IL stints, but productive every time he was healthy. He was the one position player this team could point to and say: when he's in there, the lineup has a different look.

Ezequiel Duran slides into the third base role by default, and he's capable — .284 with nine home runs in 71 games. But Duran has been playing all over the infield all season, and asking him to anchor the corner in a must-win stretch is a different ask than rotating him through. Behind him on the depth chart is Cody Freeman, which tells you how thin it gets.

This is what the 2026 Rangers will be remembered for, if they don't make it: not any one bad stretch, but the slow accumulation. Quantrill on the 60-day. Leiter, Winn, Baumler, Beeks — all gone. And now Jung, with two games to play. The team is still alive at 76-78, one game out of the last wild card. But alive and intact are two different things, and Texas hasn't been intact in a while.