Texas Rangers lineup for September 3, 2022

Photo by Paul Rutherford/Getty ImagesTexas Rangers lineup for September 3, 2022: starting pitchers are Dennis Santana for the Rangers and Brayan Bello for the Red Sox.

I thought after Thursday’s gut punch ninth inning loss, well, at least Friday will be better. But it didn’t get better. It got worse.

Or at least, I think it got worse. A shellacking seems worse than blowing a late lead. It occurs to me, though, that everyone may not agree. Some folks may think getting blown out and never being in the game is not, in fact, worse than leading for most of the game and then blowing a big lead in the bottom of the ninth, allowing the other team celebrate a walkoff. Hell, I might even feel that a…