Okay. Lets look at from August on then. Record is 33-23. -1 RD in that span. Pythag pins them at slightly below .500 in that same span. According to Fangraphs' offensive WAR in those months we're looking at 7.0 for the Rangers and 6.4 for us. Pitching WAR, 5.8 for the rangers and 7.5 for us.
As for starters, Darvish is dominant and in his first 100 IP he's looked like his old self. But that's it. Once again going back to the #s, Stroman Happ and Estrada have all faired better than Hamels has (took Sanchez out because he'd be in the higher category with Darvish). Not to mention they have to go with Perez at best for game 3 and who ever we duel from the other 3 starters I mentioned we should be winning that. So even if they decide to go Hamels-Darvish-Perez-Hamels-Darvish, head to head pitching we have 3/5 matchups on lock on paper, even if we decide to use Sanchez once ala: Happ-Sanchez-Estrada-Stroman-Happ