The subject Thursday morning turned to exit interviews, the stuff with which bottom-dwellers, such as the 2024 Texas Rangers, must occupy themselves during the final weeks of the season. Nothing to prep for in October, so best to get ready for next February.

As you can imagine, Bruce Bochy is going to have a lot to discuss with his players and nothing more so than the Great Offense Migration in which Ranger bats flew south for the summer.

“That’s an area that we really need to focus on,” Bochy said of offensive philosophy and execution. “Individually and collectively. Somehow, someway, we’ve got to make adjustments.”

And that was before the 4-0, two-hit loss to Toronto. Fans had come to Globe Life Field to see something special. They thought it would be Kumar Rocker’s home debut.

Instead, it was Toronto’s Kevin Gausman beginning to flirt with a no-hitter. Maybe the only thing that prevented it was the stiff back that perhaps led to a fifth-inning walk of Nathaniel Lowe to give the Rangers their first baserunner of the day. The back definitely led to Gausman’s exit after just 58 pitches.

The Rangers managed a single in the seventh by Josh Smith off reliever Genesis Cabrera to break up the no-hitter, but Smith was thrown out trying to advance to second. They didn’t get another baserunner until Jonah Heim’s single through the left side in the ninth.

In all, the Rangers sent 29 baserunners to the plate, just two over the minimum. On the positive side, it was an improvement compared to Sunday when they managed only 27 in a one-hit loss to Seattle and George Kirby.

It was the fourth time this year the Rangers have sent fewer than 30 hitters to the plate in a nine-inning game this season, tying the most games of such futility since the club moved to Arlington in 1972. It’s happened three times in the last month. Oh, it also officially eliminated them from the AL West race, not that anybody was paying much attention to that.