ARLINGTON -- In some MLB parks, the balls Adolis García hit to center field Friday night in the Rangers’ 4-3 loss to the Twins would’ve been momentous home runs. Perhaps in those places, Rangers starter Andrew Heaney would’ve been off the hook. Maybe he wouldn’t have set a career-high in losses in his 11th MLB season.

But at Globe Life Field, García’s big flies were just loud outs, and Heaney lost for the 13th time -- the most by any big-league pitcher this season.

That’s the kind of luck the Rangers have right now, and that’s why they fell to 11 games under .500 for the first time since 2022 with the loss.

Wyatt Langford and Josh Jung also hit balls that might have been homers if they were struck fractions of an inch or milliseconds differently.

“We’ve played some tight games, and lately it hasn’t gone our way in some of these close games,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “I thought we swung the bats a lot better. We had a lot of just-misses, right to the wall. That probably makes it more frustrating in a one-run loss.”

The night started ominously enough for the Rangers. Heaney retired the first batter of the game, Manuel Margot, on a routine pop fly to left, but there was nothing routine about the at-bat. Margot worked Heaney for an epic 16 pitches -- including eight consecutive foul balls -- to make it the longest plate appearance in the Majors this season.

Although Heaney got the next two batters out on one pitch each, the prolonged battle with Margot forebode that Heaney’s night wasn’t going to be easy. He lasted only 4 1/3 innings, allowing a pair of homers and four earned runs on five hits. The final blow for Heaney was a three-run homer by Carlos Santana after a hit batsman and a single put runners on first and second.

Imperfect as he was Friday, Heaney has been cursed by flimsy run support most of the season. The Rangers have scored two or fewer runs in support of Heaney in 15 of his 24 starts. Heaney hasn’t been stellar lately -- his 6.66 ERA over the past five starts is yet another creepy number -- but he hasn’t caught many breaks, either.

For instance: the García flyouts.

The deep drive in the third inning went a Statcast-projected 408 feet, leaping off the bat at 102.9 mph. That ball had an expected batting average (xBA) of .650, according to Statcast, which also calculated that it would have been over the wall in 20 of 30 MLB parks. Instead, Margot tracked it down to end the inning and strand a runner.

Again in the eighth, García nearly went deep to center. That one had a relatively meek 97.5 mph exit velocity, traveling 382 feet. Still, it could’ve been a homer somewhere in the big leagues (specifically, Wrigley Field).

Back in the real world, Heaney’s 13 losses are the most by a Ranger since 2021, when Jordan Lyles lost that many.

“He’s pitched a lot better than what his record is,” Bochy said of Heaney, who struck out eight. “We haven’t put up runs like we’re accustomed to. It was a tight game there. Occasionally, you give up four runs and still get a win. We made it a one-run ballgame, but we just didn’t find a way to scratch and claw for another run.”

Bochy didn’t rule out bad luck as a factor, but Heaney wouldn’t entertain the idea.

“I’m not happy about it, but I’ve said it a bunch of times: you create your own luck,” Heaney said. “I didn’t do it today. Whatever you want to say, when you need to make a pitch, you make a pitch. We’re not talking about this if I make a pitch [to Santana] and get a double play ball.”