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Texas Rangers<\/a> (7-6, first in the AL West) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (10-3, first in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Saturday, 9:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Jack Leiter<\/a> (1-0, 2.45 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Dodgers: Emmet Sheehan<\/a> (1-0, 8.00 ERA, 1.89 WHIP, eight strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Dodgers -189, Rangers +157; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers host the Texas Rangers after Max Muncy<\/a> hit three home runs on Friday in an 8-7 win over the Rangers.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 5-2 record in home games and a 10-3 record overall. Dodgers hitters have a collective .369 on-base percentage, the highest percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 7-6 record overall and a 4-3 record on the road. The Rangers are sixth in MLB<\/a> play with 14 total home runs, averaging 1.1 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Tucker<\/a> has a double and a home run for the Dodgers. Muncy is 11 for 38 with four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brandon Nimmo<\/a> has a .333 batting average to lead the Rangers, and has two doubles, a triple and a home run. Evan Carter<\/a> is 8 for 32 with a home run and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dodgers: 7-3, .316 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .234 batting average, 3.57 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dodgers: Mookie Betts<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jake Cousins<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Landon Knack<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brusdar Graterol: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Brock Stewart<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Tommy Edman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Blake Snell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kike Hernandez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Evan Phillips<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Carter Baumler<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ribs), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (back ), Cody Bradford: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers (7-6, first in the AL West) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (10-3, first in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,114,1522,226,6440,63677,39,7907,2266,2271,75686,1523,721,2283,7906,29,1165,4332,4333,1539,774,57,3224,4331,19,1532,4,1526,69,880],"class_list":{"0":"post-673126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blake-snell","10":"tag-bobby-miller","11":"tag-brandon-nimmo","12":"tag-brock-stewart","13":"tag-carter-baumler","14":"tag-dodgers","15":"tag-emmet-sheehan","16":"tag-evan-carter","17":"tag-evan-phillips","18":"tag-event_preview","19":"tag-gavin-stone","20":"tag-jack-leiter","21":"tag-jake-cousins","22":"tag-jordan-montgomery","23":"tag-kyle-tucker","24":"tag-la","25":"tag-la-dodgers","26":"tag-ladodgers","27":"tag-landon-knack","28":"tag-los-angeles","29":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","30":"tag-losangeles","31":"tag-losangelesdodgers","32":"tag-major-league-baseball","33":"tag-max-muncy","34":"tag-mlb","35":"tag-mookie-betts","36":"tag-texas-rangers","37":"tag-tommy-edman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116385106119209832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673126","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=673126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673126\/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=673126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}