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HOUSTON -- After losing two of three to the Chicago Cubs over the weekend, the Houston Astros will enter a three-game series against the Rangers facing the grim reality that another series loss to Texas would snuff out their slim hopes of winning the American League West.With their 9-5 defeat Sunday night, the Astros (75-68) remained 9 1/2 games behind Texas, which lowered its magic number to win the AL West to 10 games despite losing in Anaheim to the Los Angeles Angels earlier Sunday.The Astros are 3-13 against the Rangers this season, and even if they match their season series win total, it appears that Houston would only be delaying the inevitable with just 16 games left on the schedule at the conclusion of the Texas series.The Astros are 3 1/2 games behind AL wild-card co-leaders, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles. However, a total of seven teams are within four games of those wild-card spots.Astros right-hander Mike Fiers, who took the loss Sunday night, was asked if the club was looking at the standings.I dont think so, he said. I think were pretty focused on what we need to do here, and thats why were in the spot were at. So we still have a great chance at getting the wild card. So just have to figure out what we need to do and do that out in the field. At the end of the day, well see where were at.The Astros will give the ball to right-hander Doug Fister (12-11, 4.14 ERA) for the series opener. Given his recent struggles, and his career-long woes against the Rangers, Fister might be a dubious choice.Fister is 1-2 with a 4.57 ERA in four starts against the Rangers this season and 5-6 with a 5.18 ERA over 14 career starts against them. After tossing seven shutout innings at the Pirates in Pittsburgh on Aug. 22, Fister has absorbed three consecutive losses, posting a 10.95 ERA while allowing 26 hits and five walks over 12 1/3 innings.Left-hander Martin Perez (10-10, 4.25 ERA) will start Monday for the Rangers (85-59). Perez is 5-3 with a 2.45 ERA over eight career starts against the Astros, including 1-1 with a 4.85 ERA in two starts against Houston this season.The Rangers have lost five of eight games following a seven-game winning streak that was snapped in the series finale against the Astros on Sept. 4 in Arlington. Texas did get a measure of good news on Sunday when right-hander Colby Lewis returned from the disabled list and made his first start since late June.Lewis, who had been sidelined due to a Grade 2 lat strain, gave up three runs -- on three solo homers -- in 5 1/3 innings.It was kind of vintage Colby, Texas manager Jeff Banister said. 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However, a curiously timed pit stop saw him lose track position to both Red Bulls and meant he had to settle for third behind Max Verstappen.Teammate Sebastian Vettel had started ninth after a gearbox penalty but led after 26 laps while in the latter stages of a long stint on super-soft tyres, only for his right rear to explode out of the blue on the start-finish straight. Arrivabene insists Ferrari made the right calls on strategy for both drivers.?[Vettel] was supposed to be out for a certain number of laps and we were asking to him and he was supposed to give feedback on tyres, Arrivabene said. We had no signs on telemetry, no sign from Seb, and no sign from the sensor of the tyre that suddenly the tyre was collapsing. Zero sign. The performance was okay.As per Sebastian, we felt that what Kimi gave us was good. We were continuing thinking that like its happened to [Daniel] Ricciardo, that the guys were going in and if not to overtake. In fact in the last lap in Turn 3, wheere he overtake Ricciardo, but we had the yellow flags, we were very lucky.dddddddddddd Its ironic.Arrivabene says Ferrari was happy to sacrifice Raikkonens track position to Red Bull as it thought the team was going to stop again, and was sure it could have caught both cars in the instance it did not.We were thinking that Red Bull would stop again but the data that we have was quite precise. We took a risk because with our data Kimi was able to overtake Verstappen two laps before the race and we were nearly there.Concerning Seb, I think that without this tyre failure he would be very high in the podium, I dont know where but very high. Because we diverse the two strategies, they were different from one driver to the other.I dont think it was a missed opportunity. We followed totally our strategy and sometimes we cant talk to the driver because the rules are very clear but the drivers can give us feedback at certain points.Kimi decided to carry on like this and we went on one other option for strategy but without the yellow flags he wasnt going to overtake Verstappen. I think what we have to say is hes done a great race. ' ' '