Recharged.

They’ve lost 9 of 12 but still maintain a healthy (if a little less comfortable) lead in the division.

And so have they.

The Rangers and Cubs were both reeling — a fair word, I think, given that each had its league’s best win-loss record before their current skids — when the All-Star Break arrived mercifully, and when Ian Desmond tweeted, minutes after his All-Star Game appearance, “Get a recharge and see what we are made of in the second half — see you out there,” he might as well have been talking to his teammates as to you and me.

Keone Kela’s active again, but Jake Diekman’s cut left finger is evidently worse than Cole Hamels’s cut chin, and Diekman heads to the 15-day disabled list, with Derek Holland shifting to the 60-day disabled list, effectively sidelining him until August 21. Shin Soo-Choo is out of today’s lineup with what the beats are speculating is continued back stiffness, and now I’ve heard enough bad news and don’t want to type about any more of it.

The Rangers and the Cubs have been reeling, but there are three day games between the two teams on tap, starting a couple hours from now, three games that some are fairly couching as a possible late-October preview, even though since June 28 only one team in baseball has a worse record than these two.

Since today’s date one year ago, Texas has won 100 regular season games and Chicago has won 103. But that’s history.

As is the 3-9 slide both took into the Break.

Both teams are going to add muscle via trade over the next two weeks, and both are going to play in October. Maybe even against each other.

They’re about to tee it up today.

Let’s go.

Recharged. Let’s see what the Rangers are made of.