HOUSTON -- You always have to feel good with Jacob deGrom coming to the mound in a must-win game. Everybody in the Rangers' clubhouse would have told you so entering Wednesday’s series finale against the Astros.

“They're all must-win,” manager Bruce Bochy said after Tuesday night’s late rally came up short .

In Wednesday’s series finale, deGrom uncharacteristically allowed five runs in five innings as the Rangers fell, 5-2 , to the Astros at Daikin Park. By being swept in the three-game set, Texas also dropped the season series, while extending their current losing streak to four games.

The five earned runs match a season high for deGrom, as his ERA rose to 3.01. He has now given up 24 home runs on the season, which would be the second most in his career. (He gave up 28 in 201 1/3

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