{"id":650209,"date":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650209\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","slug":"phillies-and-rangers-square-off-in-series-rubber-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650209\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies and Rangers square off in series rubber match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/texas-rangers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> (1-1) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (1-1)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Philadelphia; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (0-0); Phillies: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jesus-luzardo-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Luzardo<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Phillies -152, Rangers +128; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies and Texas Rangers play on Sunday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Philadelphia went 96-66 overall and 55-26 in home games a season ago. The Phillies slugged .431 as a team in the 2025 season while hitting 1.3 home runs per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Texas had an 81-81 record overall and a 33-48 record in road games last season. The Rangers pitching staff had a 3.48 ERA collectively last season while averaging 8.4 strikeouts and 2.9 walks per nine innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Phillies: Zack Wheeler: 15-Day IL (shoulder), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/max-lazar-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Lazar<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Orion Kerkering: 15-Day IL (hamstring)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Rangers: Jacob deGrom: day-to-day (neck), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (back ), Cody Bradford: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jordan-montgomery-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers (1-1) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (1-1) Philadelphia; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (0-0);&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,75686,6,7906,19,14093,4,144,25,4216,40,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-650209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-jesus-luzardo","11":"tag-jordan-montgomery","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-max-lazar","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","17":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","18":"tag-phillies","19":"tag-texas-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116311779199455695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}