For the second time in five games, the Texas Rangers employed a bullpen game and it worked out to near perfection.

Those bullpen games have been quite a relief for the Texas Rangers. With Nathan Eovaldi still on the injured list and Tyler Mahle dealing with shoulder stiffness, the Rangers twice in the past week have gone with bullpen games.

If the Rangers do improve, it gets stickier. I think if this team is to make a run in the postseason, it needs somebody more established to either share duties at the end of the game or to take them over and align things so the Rangers can go Chris Martin, Garcia and then a closer.

How do you charge a mound visit to a ball boy? Kumar Rocker found the answer against the White Sox while fighting dehydration.

With the three shutout innings against the White Sox, Armstrong lowered his ERA as a starter to 1.04 (four earned runs in 34.2 innings). That’s the lowest starter ERA (minimum of 17 starts) for any pitcher in Major League Baseball’s Live Ball Era, which began in 1920.

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi ... because of who we are,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said before Friday’s game, “and who we think we are.” They think that they’re ...

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Tyler Mahle could be held out of his next start after experiencing soreness in his pitching arm.

A few things people tend to know about Bruce ... em up: Bochy’s career regular-season record remains under .500. As he enters the final year of his contract with the Rangers, he’s 2,171-2,185.

The Rangers will continue their home series with another match against the Chicago White Sox at 3:05 p.m. Saturday.