2.0.

Los Angeles 4, Houston 3 and Texas 8, Oakland 6 were two excruciatingly difficult games to watch and endure, relentlessly tense and intense.

The mathematically satisfying result of those two final scores: a two-game Rangers lead in the West.

So tired, and unremittingly uneasy, but I was glued.

Both games were the sports embodiment of “It ain’t over ’til it’s over,” I phrase we’ll hear a lot today as Yogi Berra is mourned.

Berra is best known, at least by the last couple generations, as one of the great American characters, but he was unquestionably one of the Great Game’s players, a three-time MVP and 10-time World Series champion.

He was a catcher who occasionally played in the outfield, but after the most momentary of consideration I think that’s a topic we’ll avoid further discussion on, in present context (perhaps leaning on a little Berra advice in doing so: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”).

Rest in peace, Yogi.

One final episode of late night West Coast Baseball tonight, but this time Astros-Angels (1:10 start) will be well over by time the Rangers and A’s get going. Which could make watching tonight’s game better. Or worse.

The range of outcomes going into this weekend’s Rangers-Astros series in Houston, thanks to last night’s nerve-racking and awesome results, is now a half-game Rangers lead in the division at worst, a 3.5-game Texas edge at best.

The Rangers have decided not to start Cole Hamels in that series, instead giving him tomorrow’s finale in Oakland on regular rest so that he’d be available for Game 162 if needed, but the fact is the Astros series will get rolling with Texas atop the division, regardless.

Colby Lewis and Hamels have a chance in Oakland, late tonight and then tomorrow afternoon, to push the lead closer to the high end. While Hamels has been pushed up to Thursday’s start, the A’s have decided to go with righthander Chris Bassitt rather than Sonny Gray. That’s good. I think.

First things first. Lewis and Felix Doubront tonight.

We’ll watch tired, and it will be super-tense.

And if all goes well, both in Houston and in Oakland, maybe we’ll be treated to a little deja vu all over again, cut generously into six slices rather than four.

Because we’re hungry.