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Going to game No. 163: Rays, Rangers meet in AL wild-card tiebreaker, winner visits Cleveland
• The Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers are pushing this regular season to game No. 163.
• On a Sunday punctuated by Miami's Henderson Alvarez pitching a no-hitter, Tampa Bay and Texas both won and wound up even, forcing a tiebreaker for the second AL wild-card spot.
• The Rays will play at Texas on Monday night, with the winner visiting Cleveland on Wednesday night in another all-or-nothing matchup.
• Rangers rookie Martin Perez starts against reigning AL Cy Young winner David Price. Texas gets a boost, too -- All-Star slugger Nelson Cruz will be active after his 50-game penalty from Major League Baseball in the Biogenesis drug scandal.
• "He's served his suspension," Rays star Evan Longoria said. "It is what it is. Justice has been served."
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Monday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2013. There are 92 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 30, 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.
• On this date:
• In 1777, the Continental Congress -- forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces -- moved to York, Pa.
• In 1791, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna, Austria.
• In 1809, a treaty was signed by Indiana Territory Gov. William Henry Harrison and representatives of four Indian tribes under which the Indians sold some 3 million acres of land to be used for U.S. settlements.
• In 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
• In 1938, after co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said, "I (Continued on page 26)
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