It was a rare night for the Rangers.

They displayed a rare ability to come from behind, a rare ability to score late in a game, and a rare ability to score with two outs.

Early on, this one looked like yet another Rangers loss. Caleb Bouschley was making an emergency start to replace Jacob deGrom. It looked like it was going to be disastrous. He gave up three runs in the first that could have easily been six or seven. He was lost, couldn’t find the strike zone, and was pretty much pitching the opposite of a deGrom start.

But a funny thing happened. Like one of those body switching movies, the Royals got a sudden case of Rangeritis and stopped hitting while the Rangers magically turned into the Royals and showed some offense. Granted, it took a Kansas City error to get the Rangers offense going, but at least the Rangers finally took advantage of such a thing. They usually don’t.

Cody Freeman and Evan Carter led off the top of the ninth like most Rangers do in the last innings: meekly grounding out. Then, the Royals came bearing gifts. Wyatt Landford walked. Corey Seager grounded to first, but that turned into an error, so the Rangers had runners at first and second. Marcus Semien nudged an infield single to load the bases. Then Kyle Higashioka cleared the bases with a double, putting the Rangers up 6-3.

It was only the Rangers second win in six games on this road trip. With only thirty-four games left, with the Rangers under .500, and with the Rangers five games out of the wild card with three teams ahead of them, it’s a case of too little too late.

But a win is a win, a come from behind win is even sweeter. With the Rangers, they rarely happen.

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