Less than 24 hours ago, the Texas Rangers put up 11 runs in what they hoped would be the beginning of an offensive turnaround.

Unfortunately, despite the roof being open for the second game in a row, that momentum did not carry over into Saturday afternoon.

The Rangers were blanked 2-0 by the St Louis Cardinals on Saturday afternoon at Globe Life Field.

Cardinals starter Sonny Gray put forth seven shutout innings, allowing just four hits and striking out ten Texas batters.

“He’s [Gray] so good at staying at the bottom of the zone there,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “Good sinker, good breaking ball, changeup, using both sides, changing speeds, he induces a lot of ground balls. He pitched great, we ran into a well-pitched game unfortunately”.

Texas was able to manage four hits and two walks and had some opportunities to put up some runs.

Perhaps the closest game in the second inning was when Jake Burger drove a 377 ft fly ball to right, which was feet away from being a two-run home run.

In the 5th, the Rangers had two on with two outs and Kyle Higashioka at the plate, but unfortunately, he flew out to center to end the inning.

Despite not cracking the scoreboard, the Rangers remained in the game thanks in large part to Patrick Corbin, who threw 5.1 innings, allowing just 2 runs.

For Corbin, today marks a career high of ten starts allowing three or fewer runs to begin a season.

The Rangers bullpen was once again solid, as Cole Winn, Hoby Milner, and Jacob Webb combined for 3.2 shutout frames.

With 1.2 scoreless innings today, Winn joins four other active AL pitchers with 6.0 or more IP and zero earned runs allowed this season.

Still, the storylines of another strong start and not enough offense remain, but Corbin has seen that story before, and it had a pretty good ending.

“It’s a similar feel back in 2019,” Corbin said, referencing the 2019 Washington Nationals team he was a part of, which went to win the World Series.

“I hate to bring other years up but we [2019 Nats] had a very good pitching staff and kinda some injuries, some things weren’t going our way, we weren’t getting wins but guys showed up to the field every day and worked hard, and that’s a similar feel here”.

“No one is here putting their head down, they’re coming to the field every day. I think if we [pitching staff] can continue to go out there and keep us in ballgames, things will start to turn around. We’ve had glimpses of that, so it’s definitely having some of those veteran guys here is going to help, so hopefully keep these guys coming in and preparing every day. Our record is what it is, but we’re still in it, there’s a lot of games left, and things are going to turn around”.