Grrr.

Texas 10, Oakland 6 catapulted the Rangers’ record to an AL-best 40-25 (a 99.69-win pace), bettered in baseball only by the Cubs.

It was a win in Oakland Alameda Coliseum, which feels more like a mausoleum, in terms of both its embarrassing lack of life in the stands and the horror effect it somehow has on the Rangers when they visit.

Martin Perez recovered from a shaky first to go seven innings — not only matching a season-high workload but also doing so while registering his third-lowest pitch count (90) in 14 starts, which in combination is all kinds of awesome. He’s won five straight starts, and as one of the club’s three number three starters, more of that, please.

Elvis Andrus led a 13-hit attack, singling a runner to third ahead of Robinson Chirinos’s tone-setting homer in the second, singling in a runner himself an inning later, and going deep in the eighth.

Ryan Rua, hitting cleanup for the first time, had three run-scoring trips plus a walk. In his last 19 games, he’s a .370/.462/.685 hitter in 65 plate appearances, a stretch over which the club is 13-6.

Andrus’s homer (he’s now hitting .294/.342/.417, which as WFAA’s Or Moyal points out, overlays nicely against Carlos Correa’s .252/.346/.416) extended the Texas lead to 8-4, an only slightly more comfortable cushion in that wretched ballpark, and Jeff Banister gave the bottom of the eighth to Matt Bush, who’d had two days off since a 13-pitch effort in Seattle on Saturday.

Bush had a clean eighth, another 13-pitch frame, and the Rangers put up another pair of runs in the top of the ninth, pushing the score to 10-4 with three outs to go.

All of that, and I’m a little baseball-cranky this morning.

I’m not at all miffed at Alex Claudio, who is what he is, or at Banister, who didn’t have Keone Kela (hurt) or Shawn Tolleson (27 pitches the night before) or Tom Wilhelmsen (ineffective and back in AAA) or Andrew Faulkner (same) or Tanner Scheppers (hurt) or Luke Jackson (back in AAA because of team workload issues) or Phil Klein (DFA’d) or Cesar Ramos (back in the rotation with Yu Darvish sidelined) or Nick Martinez (back up but possibly being held for Saturday’s start or at least long relief duties) or A.J. Griffin (rehabbing).

The situation called not for Bush to go another inning. It called for Claudio.

And a 10-4 lead in the ninth ended up putting another 16 pitches of wear on the closer’s arm.

Claudio: Hit batsman on an 0-1 pitch. Single. Strikeout. Double. Dyson.

Ugh.

Dyson took care of business, getting Billy Burns to ground out to second (a terrific play by both Rougned Odor and Dyson covering the bag) and Jed Lowrie to watch strike three, but while that effort shouldn’t shut Dyson down tonight, what if he’s used tonight? Will he still be available tomorrow afternoon?

It’s sorta dumb that Texas finally won a game in Oakland and I’m grumpy. I know.

And when circumstances lead to a trickshot artist like Claudio — undeniably a success story in that he’s a former 27th-round pick whose delivery the club overhauled and who got to the big leagues in four years and is building up a pension — being your best bet to take a six-run lead in the ninth to the house, well, that’s the situation you want to feel good about having a guy like him around to absorb, and handle.

I hated seeing Dyson stand up off the bullpen bench and start stretching, but I understood.

Hated seeing him brought in with what was then a 10-6 margin, but I get it.

Hated seeing Burns work him for seven pitches and Lowrie for nine before he he got both out, but, hey, he did get them out.

Loved the win.

But not as much as I wanted to.

Still, that’s a burr in the saddle that I can live with. Texas has barely gotten anything yet out of Yu Darvish or Shin-Soo Choo or Kela or Scheppers or Chirinos or Delino DeShields. Tolleson and Wilhelmsen haven’t contributed anywhere near expectations, nor have Prince Fielder or Mitch Moreland, though those two are showing good signs.

I’m grumbling about the fact that my team’s closer pitched after a day of rest, and that’s something I’d much rather worry about than being 5.5 games out or 9.5 games out or 12.0 or 12.5, which is where the Rangers’ division mates sit this morning, 40 percent into the season, while Texas is a tick away from a 100-win pace.

So, yeah, never mind.