The Texas Rangers hit the halfway point of their season at exactly the kind of place that sums them up: 50 wins, 50 losses, and no real answers.
On this night, the Chicago White Sox looked like the better team from the start and finished like one too, rolling past the Rangers 10-3. Texas briefly had the upper hand, but the game kept slipping away until it was gone for good.
The Rangers opened with a run in each of the first two innings and grabbed a 2-0 lead, which usually feels like a decent foundation. But Jacob deGrom never settled in.
He was already working around trouble early, escaping a runners-on-second-and-third, no-out jam in the top of the first before things unraveled later. By the fifth, he had given up four runs and the White Sox had taken control.
Chicago didn’t waste many of its chances. The White Sox came up with runners in scoring position 10 times against deGrom and cashed in on three of them. The biggest swing came from Andrew Benintendi, who delivered a two-out, bases-loaded double as deGrom finally broke after spending much of his short outing bending.
Texas had only two opportunities with runners in scoring position against White Sox starter Erick Fedde and left one runner stranded.
The Rangers made a small push in the bottom of the seventh when Jake Burger launched a solo home run to cut the deficit to two. That was as close as they got. Chicago answered with five more runs in the top of the ninth against a struggling Jose Corniell and shut the door.
Joc Pederson gave Texas its lone early burst of optimism, leading off the bottom of the first with a solo home run after deGrom escaped that first-inning jam. For a moment, it looked like the Rangers might have something going.
Instead, it turned into another reminder of how uneven this team has been. After 100 games in 2026, the Rangers are right back where they started: dead even.
The two clubs meet again tomorrow night. Texas has not listed a starter, while Chicago will go with left-hander Noah Schultz.
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