Walking and running.

He saw nine pitches and swung just once at a ball that didn’t pierce the strike zone, which is a story in itself.

He scored, all on his own, even though no ball cleared a fence. In fact, none of the nine pitches were put in play.

He scored, all on his own, 14 pitches and an intermittent pitching change after the nine he saw, though nobody else advanced him. In fact, only one of those 14 pitches was put in play, a lazy fly inconsequentially lobbed off a teammate’s bat that settled in the right fielder’s glove, closer to the second baseman’s original position than his own.

He scored, all on his own, by working a nine-pitch walk and by stealing second base and by taking third on the throwing error he forced by stealing second and by sliding across home plate on the balk he forced by being awesome, though to have that run categorized as “BALK” rather than “STOLEN BASE” is a disservice.

Rougned Odor was the only Ranger in the lineup without a hit in Texas 10, Detroit 4, and yet it was his work over that 23-pitch sequence in the seventh — forcing a walk and forcing an error and forcing a balk (without which he still would have scored) — and not A.J.’s lunchpail start and not Joey’s 459-foot moonshot and not Joey’s extraordinary run path and not Joey’s extraordinary slide (notching the eighth-inning trail run that busted the game open) that sticks in mind as I think back on five wins in six games, and what’s now four straight series without a loss (two splits on the road, two series won at home), with a chance tonight to sweep the Tigers and further whittle down that Wild Card deficit that now stands at 2.0 games.

As Dallas Morning News writer Gerry Fraley points out, the next five starting pitchers slated to face Texas are a composite 17–29, 5.58 on the year.

Nothing Odor did last night was a reason we will never forget this Rangers season.

But we will never forget this Rangers season.