Numbers.

The math dictates that Texas 3, Tampa Bay 1, the Rangers’ third straight win and seventh out of 10, put the club out of everyone else’s reach in the chase for the American League’s best record heading into the playoffs.

Texas will host the first two games of the ALDS and have home field advantage, even though it doesn’t know yet who will visit.

Texas will retain home field for the ALCS, if it advances.

Texas will have home field for the World Series (courtesy of AL 4, NL 2 on July 12), should the club reach its third Fall Classic.

The win over the Rays also gave Texas a club-record 53 home victories. According to math, should the Rangers split these final two with Tampa Bay, they will have won a clean two-thirds of their regularly scheduled home games in 2016.

That’s awesome.

More math:

Yu Darvish threw 97 pitches over six innings last night.

Eleven of them were expended on the first batter of the game.

After that, the remaining 23 Rays he faced saw 86 pitches.

An average of 3.7 pitches per batter isn’t all that eye-opening per se — until you factor in that Darvish struck out a dozen in those six frames (half the Rays he faced), and, according to math, it takes at least three pitches each time you do that.

Darvish was not only electric last night — he was unusually efficient.

He issued one walk (in his final frame). He threw only 27 balls to 24 batters, an exceptional number for any starting pitcher but extraordinary for a pitcher with Darvish’s profile. He induced 20 swinging strikes, a season high.

One final point with the numbers.

These last two times he’s taken the ball, this team’s number 2 has pitched like a number 1.

We don’t yet know who Yu Darvish will next face, but I can’t wait for his second chance to pitch in a Major League playoff game, less than a week from now.

Some other lineup’s days might be numbered.

AP/Tony Gutierrez