The Texas Rangers scored a run while the Houston Astros did not score a run.
In a bit of a quirk of the schedule, the Rangers and Astros are opening up the Silver Boot series a quarter of the way through the season. The build up didn’t disappoint as Texas and Houston played this one like it was in the middle of October.
The Rangers entered the night one percentage point behind the Astros for second place in the American League West. On the bump was Jacob deGrom against Hunter Brown. You pretty much couldn’t have scripted a better starting point for tonight’s contest and it played out as nail-biting as you might have expected.