ARLINGTON – The Rangers' pitching staff hasn't strung this many zeroes together since Ronald Reagan's presidency was barely three months old.

The streak stands at 31 scoreless innings and counting after the club notched its third consecutive shutout Friday, a 4-0 win over Oakland. The Rangers have won four straight and 10 of their last 14 games.

The shutout stretch is the second-longest in club history, bettered only in the final four days of April 1981. Then, when gas prices averaged $1.38 a gallon, the Rangers had four consecutive shutouts and went 39 straight innings without allowing a run.

Scott Feldman, who wasn't born until 1982, kept the streak going with six strong innings Friday. He walked four batters in the first two innings, but he corrected some faulty mechanics, found his command and made key pitches when he needed to. Jamey Wright, Joaquin Benoit and C.J. Wilson each pitched an inning to close the deal. Texas is the first team since Florida in 2005 with three consecutive shutouts.

"Good pitching is contagious," Wright said. "You want to pitch in those situations and keep the momentum going."

It's up to Kevin Millwood to do that tonight. He can't remember three games with pitching this good since he was a member of the vaunted Braves rotation in the late 1990s that included Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Greg Maddux.

"Everybody in here is talented enough to do it," Millwood said. "My goal is to try to keep the good pitching going and not worry about shutouts."

The April struggles on the mound have given way to May success. The Rangers had the league's highest ERA in April at 5.68, but they have the lowest in May at 1.71.

Brandon Boggs, with his parents in attendance, drove in three of the four runs with a solo homer and a double.

Pitching, as it has of late, made the runs hold up.

"It can be a circus out there, and the main tent is right on the mound," manager Ron Washington said. "If you get it done right there, it makes everything that much smoother."

Ten pitchers have contributed to the streak of 31 scoreless innings: