For a while on Friday night, it appeared as if the Rangers could collect their longest win streak since August 2023.

After Nathan Eovaldi tossed 5 2 ⁄ 3 scoreless, the veteran was removed after his uncharacteristic third walk of the evening. That tasked the ‘pen with holding onto a 2-0 lead for a big chunk of this game and, especially with most of the high leverage pitchers dealing with something, that proved to be far too big of an ask.