The offense has disappeared, again

I regret to inform you that the Texas Rangers’ offense is at it again.

The Rangers have lost their last four games in a row, all at home. In those four games, they’ve scored a total of seven runs. The last game they won, against the Yankees on Tuesday, August 5, they scored just two runs. Their runs scored in each game, over the last five games, is 2-2-1-2-2. Palindromic, at least.

Other than Friday night’s ugly 9-1 loss, the pitching staff more or less did their job and kept the Rangers in those games, allowing 10 runs in those other four games — four runs once, three runs twice, zero runs once. Once would hope that keeping the other team to three-four runs per game would result in a win more often than not.

Do I think that the past five games reveals some hidden truth about the Ranger