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April is early, the season provides plenty of ebbs and flows, and nothing we've seen to this point can be defined as a trend.
But facts are facts, and the fact that the Rangers awoke Friday with a seven-game lead on the last-place Angels -- the club expected to give them their greatest competition in their bid to claim a third consecutive American League West crown -- is not insignificant, even at this primitive point in the season schedule.
"We'll take any advantage we can get at any point during the season," second baseman Ian Kinsler said. "The games in April count just as much as the games in September."
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