When you come to the ballpark, you have the opportunity to see things that you’ve never seen before no matter how many games you’ve come to.

The 34,458 fans that packed Globe Life Field on Tuesday night, can say that they’ve witnessed something they have never seen before and may never see again in the Rangers 4-2 loss to the Astros.

A night that was supposed to be about the return of Tyler Mahle who returned to a big league mound for the first time in more than 15 months, turned into a story about Framber Valdez and near history.

Valdez mowed through the Rangers’ order tonight, needing just 60 pitches to cruise through six no-hit innings. The rest of the night wasn’t as smooth for the Astros lefty who was forced into multiple deep counts in the final three innings.

However, Valdez was able to navigate through to the ninth inning with a no-hitter still intact.

Robbie Grossman led off the ninth with a walk before Ezequiel Duran bounced into a double play leaving Valdez an out away from his second no-hitter in as many seasons.

Down to their final out for the second straight night, last night’s hero Josh Smith worked a walk bringing Corey Seager to the plate. Seager would smash a two-run home run for the Rangers’ first hit of the night, spoiling Valdez’s bid for history and cutting the Astros lead in half.

“We’re back in it” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said when asked what his thoughts were after Seager’s home run.

The Rangers were in fact back in it and when Marcus Semien walked as the next batter, Texas had the tying run to the plate with two gone in the ninth.

Josh Jung stepped to the plate and launched a 339-foot blast to the right field warning track but unfortunately for the Rangers, the ball died five feet shy of the wall and Texas fell short.

“You’re hoping that the next guy [Semien] gets on and that’s what happened, then you have a good hitter up there [Jung], he got a good swing off and hit it right to the wall, that’s what you wanna see is fight at the end and they were doing that.

Once again, the Rangers offense struggled to get anything going but this night says more about Valdez than it does the Texas attack.

“He was [pretty locked in] four pitches all working for him, he’s got great stuff, he’s got that hard sinker there at 96, got that curveball going, slider, changeup, everything working” Bruce Bochy said. “He got a lot of ground balls, that’s what he does, he got a lot of early outs.