The Texas Rangers scored four runs while the Toronto Blue Jays scored one run.
Despite things becoming more morose in and around The Shed as another Rangers season circled the drain, it’s worth noting that, by winning today’s finale over the Blue Jays, Texas has equaled last season’s win total with 23 games remaining.
Now, obviously, this isn’t anything to celebrate but it does shine a light on the fact that while this season didn’t reach the maybe-if-everything-breaks-right-they-make-the-wild-card goal, it hasn’t been as dreadful has last season’s edition.
There’s sparks of life on display up and down the lineup (today, Adolis Garcia and Leody Taveras homered and Nathaniel Lowe had three hits) and hope on the farm and the win total shows a team that is making the incremental progress that was expected, even if it hasn’t been as much as we might have hoped.