The Rangers beat the Pirates 1-0 Wednesday afternoon, the winning run coming in the bottom of the ninth, Wyatt Langford singling in the winning run with two outs and men on second and third. It’s the closest game you can have in regulation, where closeness is defined as the average of the absolute value of the score difference at the end of each half inning, or in this case, 1/18. It’s the third such close game in 2024. The Pirates were involved in all three of them. They won over the Rockies on May 4th. The lost 1-0 to the Cubs on May 18th.