The starting pitchers for the Rangers allowed six runs in this series, an average of two runs per start. That went three runs by Patrick Corbin, two runs by Jacob deGrom, and one run by Nathan Eovaldi. It was a virtual cascade of relative excellent against arguably baseball’s toughest lineup at the moment.

With the bats still scuffling, the Texas Rangers wasted several stellar pitching performances in a sweep at the hands of the New York Yankees.

The Rangers and Yankees may have danced around raindrops in The Bronx on Wednesday, but face a poor forecast for Thursday’s scheduled series finale. It was supposed to rain overnight in New York with showers lasting throughout the day Thursday.

Carlos Rodon struck out eight over six shutout innings as the Yankees beat the Rangers, 1-0, to complete the series sweep on Thursday.