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Thursday, July 19, 2012 Checking in on the Rangers  By Mark
Saxon and Richard Durrett  Is this weekend's series against the
Texas Rangers pivotal?  No, because no series in July is truly
pivotal and, with two wild cards, we may not see a truly pivotal
series until mid-September. But the Angels are only going to
have so many opportunities to make up ground and it's a lot
easier to get to the World Series now if you win your division,
so it's a big, big series.  To preview it, we caught up with
colleague Richard Durrett, who covers the Rangers for Durrett
and I took turns asking each other questions about the two AL
West rivals:  MS: It seems like both of these teams suddenly
have some issues with their starting rotations. What's the
latest on the Texas starting rotation and do you think any
concerns are long-term or just blips in the middle of a season?
RD: For the Rangers, it's more about injuries. They avoided any
roster move for the first five we