ARLINGTON, Texas _ On what might be the final uncomfortably hot home game the Rangers will ever play, Texas' bats went into the deep freezer.
Wild-card leader Oakland completed the series sweep and stretched its winning streak to six with a 6-1 victory before 26,064 sunlight-dodging patrons at Globe Life Park.
When the Rangers move across the street to the air-conditioned confines of Globe Life Field next season, a 96-degree game-time temperature that greeted the teams on Sunday will be a thing of the past. The Rangers still have two afternoon games remaining in hopefully a cooler final week of September.
The Rangers could do little against Oakland's Sean Manaea (2-0), managing only three singles in six innings. He retired 16 of the final 18 hitters he faced. It was the third major league start in over a year for the injury-plagued left-hander.
Marcus Semien staked Oakland to a 2-0 lead in the third inning, launching a Jonathan Hernandez sinker 433 feet over the centerfield wall after No. 9 hitter Robbie Grossman drew the first of six walks issued by the six Rangers pitchers. Two more walks in the inning, the second by reliever Ian Gibaut, preceded Seth Brown's two-run double to make it 4-0.
Sean Murphy's RBI single in the fifth widened the lead to 5-0 and Matt Chapman completed the scoring with his 34th home run in the ninth.
Texas ended the shutout in the eighth when Jose Trevino doubled and later scored on a passed ball. But even that uprising ended in frustration. With the bases loaded and no outs, the Rangers could not get any more.
