Thoughts on a 4-3 Rangers loss

Astros 4, Rangers 3

This is what a .500 team looks like.

I mean, there’s all sorts of .500 teams, who get there in different ways, but this is the overall vibe, I think. A team that plays well enough often enough to lament the missed chances and lost opportunities, but that isn’t good enough not to have a good number of missed chances and lost opportunities.

This isn’t a bad team. It isn’t a good team. It is, as of now, a middle of the road team, a team that could be in the playoff race with some breaks and some breakouts, or that could be well out of the race by mid-August if things go the other way.

On Monday, the Rangers won a game that the Astros should have probably won, all things…