The phrase “what a difference a day makes” is an age-old slogan sometimes used in good but sometimes in bad contexts.

One of the things about it is that it always stays relevant and finds new ways to teach lessons each time.

Unfortunately for the Rangers, they learned another lession from the age old saying and it was not in one of the good contexts.

After a 15-run explosion just 24 hours ago, Texas left 11 men on base and was 1-8 with runners in scoring position en route to putting up just 1 run in a 7-1 loss to the Athletics.

Texas managed nine hits tonight but all of them were singles proving once again it’s not about how many hits you get but when you get them.

“We couldn’t cash in,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “We couldn’t get not just a hit with runners on but a productive out.

“We did what we were hoping to do and that’s get runners on base and create those opportunities, but we just didn’t get the hit when we needed it”.

Despite the offensive struggle tonight, Bochy doesn’t feel like his team lost the progress it made last night.

“I don’t feel like it was lost. If you look at the game last night, sure, we got the hits and it was a good night, but I said we gotta put that game behind us and do the same thing tonight, but we didn’t. A little different pitching that we saw, but I thought they had some good at-bats, found ways to get on base, creating opportunities with some base hits”.

Once again, it was a wasted opportunity to cash in on a great start as Nathan Eovaldi fired six innings of one-run baseball while striking out eight.

“I felt good,” Eovaldi said., “I felt like there were a few times where I kinda lost command of the zone and I had to get back in there, a lot of 2-0 [and] 3-0 counts, but overall, I felt really good out there”. Nice work by Jonah again to get me back into it. I thought he did a great job back there behind the plate. It would have been nice to go a little deeper, but at the same time, I’m happy with the results.

Tonight’s game once again represented the theme of the season’s opening month, where the Rangers have consistently had good pitching performances but a lack of offense to back it up.

With April now in the books, the Rangers close the month with a 16-15 record, and depending on whether you’re a glass-half-full or half-empty person, it was either a good or bad month.

However, the Rangers Hall of Fame manager is certainly in the glass-half-full boat.

“I try to look at the positive on this as we are a game over .500 despite this offense not hitting on all cylinders. ” Bochy explained.

“That’s how I try to look at it and keep believing that this is going to happen, yeah, it’s been going on for a while, so that’s how I try to look at it, could be a lot worse considering what we’ve done offensively.”