Its a good thing the Rangers are already out of the race, because otherwise I’d be mad about this game.
On the pitching side, Mike Minor got a Quality Start, giving upm3 runs in 6 innings, though with the help of a couple of spectacular diving catches by Delino DeShields. Jose Leclerc, who has been terrific this year, gave up a run kn relief to break a 3-3 tie, and that was that.
However...the story of the game was the Rangers getting tons of baserunners without tons of hits, and failing to take advantage. Texas only had 5 hits, but they drew 10 walks, had 5 HBPs, and reached on an error. And still only managed to score 3 runs.
17 runners left on base by Texas in 9 innings. That’s hard to do.
Even the five Ranger hits were kind of weird, because they were all opposite field hits. Rougned Odor had a hard hit opposite field double, Jurickson Profar had an opposite field single against the shift, Ronald Guzman had a double and a single the other way against the shift, and Robinson Chirinos had an opposite field single. Not a single hit for Texas was pulled, or even nit back up the middle.
Texas obviously had chance after chance, and failed to cash in. Even in the ninth, they had runners on first and second with one out, Adrian Beltre up as a pinch hitter, and Beltre hit into a GIDP.
It was one of the strangest games you will see. Baseball can be very strange sometimes.