The temperature at first pitch Friday was 107 degrees, a record by one degree for the 24-year-old Globe Life Park.

It might be the hottest ever in Arlington, dating to 1972, but the Texas Rangers don’t have data on first-pitch temps from Arlington Stadium.

But by the bottom of the first had dropped to a mere 105. It was 104 by the bottom of the third. It was 95 in the seventh ... at 10:05 p.m.

A cold front. A painfully slow game to open the second half.

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