Castle.

It was game number 1,818 in the building presently known as Globe Life Park, and just the third time that neither team managed an extra-base hit.

Thanks — twice — to Carlos Gomez.

It was a playoff-intense, 2-1 win over the Indians, and you can thank Gomez in large part for that, too. His hitless streak since the home run to kick off his Rangers career now sits at 14, but his arrival has been pivotal in at least one game, a game that extended the club’s record-setting mark in one-run contests to 29-8 and gave Texas a series win against a very good Indians team.

Without needing Yu Darvish.

Jonathan Lucroy played in three of the series’s four games and had hits in all three (.444/.500/.400), and his impact behind the plate showed up over and over. He blocked pitches in big spots, he erased a runner trying to advance into scoring position on what would have been scored a wild pitch, and, most importantly, he and Derek Holland crafted and executed a brilliant game plan.

If Lucroy had said yes to Cleveland four weeks ago, who wins Sunday’s game?

He’s gonna be here next year, too.

And Holland keeps increasing the odds that he will be as well. That was October 2011 Derek Holland on Sunday.

Because things lined up so that Jake Diekman (19 pitches on Saturday), Matt Bush (12 pitches on Saturday), and Sam Dyson (just eight pitches over the previous week, all coming way back on Wednesday) were all available, Holland’s day was over after just 84 pitches in six innings. And though the big three at the back of the pen preserved the one-run lead, it wasn’t the cleanest effort.

In the seventh, Diekman’s first seven pitches were balls.

In the ninth, with a man on second and one out, Dyson threw nine straight balls.

In between was one of the season’s extraordinary stories.

That used to be the case in terms of Matt Bush’s backstory. Now it’s just as much on the field.

Bush (in the eighth) and Dyson (in the ninth) each threw nine strikes in a scoreless frame to lower his ERA to 2.78.

But while Dyson did so over 22 pitches, it took Bush just 12 offerings.

Strike one called (97) on the inner black to Lonnie Chisenhall, followed by 96 at the knees, lobbed to short left for out one.

A curve ball over the heart for strike one called on Rajai Davis, then 98 at the knees, fouled off for strike two. Davis then took 97 up and in, after which he grounded 98 at the knees back to the mound. Out two.

The next at-bat was one of Bush’s most impressive of the year. Career Rangers nemesis Jason Kipnis (.348/.414/.528 in 99 Globe Life Park plate appearances) stepped up, a threat to tie the game on one swing.

Kipnis swung through 96 at the letters and outside the zone.

He then swung through 97 down and away.

Kipnis laid off an 0-2 waste pitch that Bush elevated, and managed to foul off a curve ball (81) on the inner half to stay alive. He wouldn’t offer when Bush went away again with 97, drawing the count even at 2-2.

But the two-time All-Star had no chance when Lucroy called for Bush to come back up and in with another four-seamer, grazing 97 that Lucroy held onto for strike three, and out three.

I kept thinking Texas was going to need to shut Bush down for a week or two at this point in the season, much as the organization did with Keone Kela a year ago, to make sure he had enough gas in the tank for September and October. And, to be fair, there are still five weeks to go before 162+.

But, if anything, Bush seems to be getting better. Aside from a brief dip more than a month ago, the velocity has held up, and more notably, the converted shortstop is pitching better than ever.

Just like we all envisioned six months ago, Texas won a big game against Cleveland in late August behind the big work of Derek Holland, Jonathan Lucroy, Carlos Gomez, and Matt Bush — who, in spring training, was working with the Rangers’ minor league pitchers in hopes of landing a AA job and didn’t even have an official invite to big league camp.

The Rangers, the best home team (42-21) in the American League, now host Seattle for three and Houston for three, a stretch that’s big for Texas but massive for the visitors, each of whom sit 8.5 games out in the West (and 3.0 back in the Wild Card chase). After that, the Rangers visit Seattle for four, a daytime Labor Day start followed by three late-night West Coast games that will cost me sleep.

But for now, as far as the first three days of the week are concerned, with the Mariners in town: 11.5, 9.5, 7.5, or 5.5.

Players who weren’t here for the Rangers’ last pennant race continue to make an impact in this one.

Sometimes at the plate, sometimes behind it, sometimes at the fence, sometimes on the mound.

Big week and a half coming up, at least in the sense that it can make the few weeks after that a lot less critical and could give the Rangers the opportunity to ease workloads and start looking to line things up for October.

This team has been at its best in 2016 in close games and against good teams, both of which bode well for the ballgames that start five weeks from tomorrow — or, more specifically for the Rangers, five weeks from Thursday, at home, where the Castle Doctrine has been exercised all year with league-leading authority.