It is the story of their season. So, they might as well run it back again.
The Rangers turned another late lead into a narrow defeat on Wednesday, allowing the last-place Oakland A’s to score two runs in the ninth on the way to an 8-7 loss.
It was the Rangers’ 32nd one-run loss of the season, establishing a new Texas record for futility in close games. The Rangers had gone 21-31 in one-run games in 1988. These Rangers are 13-32. They won’t get to the live ball era record (since 1920) of 44 set by the Chicago White Sox in 1968. But, hey, they could still match the White Sox mark for most one-run losses by an AL team since the DH rule went into effect in 1973 and boosted offenses.
