14-7 - Grossman helps Rangers avoid gross outcome against A’s

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesThe Texas Rangers scored five runs while the Oakland Athletics scored two runs.

Sweeping a series in the big leagues isn’t easy and really shouldn’t ever be the expected result at the outset but if there is one team you maybe should be able to sweep, it’s the 2023 Oakland A’s.

That the Rangers made that a nonstarter by fumbling away the opener made any outcome this weekend seem mildly disappointing. However, they always could have lost another one and made things even more embarrassing.

Instead, after treating the A’s like the A’s yesterday, Texas rode their ace Jacob deGrom for six innings of ace-like performance and secured a rare day of Robbie Grossman…