This is what happens when a minimum of six teams are in the hunt for two Wild Card playoff berths. After winning three in a row, the Rangers were holding on to the second spot. Now that they have lost two to the Blue Jays, they have fallen a half-game behind the Twins.
There are 37 games left, including one more with the Blue Jays on Thursday afternoon.
"It was just a bad day at work," shortstop Elvis Andrus said. "We still have another month to go, and in baseball you don't know what will happen.