{"id":676811,"date":"2026-04-16T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:04:13","slug":"athletics-play-the-rangers-leading-series-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676811\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics play the Rangers leading series 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Rangers<\/a> (9-9, second in the AL West) vs. Athletics<\/a> (10-8, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Thursday, 3:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Jack Leiter<\/a> (1-1, 4.91 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 21 strikeouts); Athletics: Jacob Lopez<\/a> (1-1, 7.43 ERA, 2.17 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -119, Rangers -101; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics play the Texas Rangers with a 2-1 series lead.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 10-8 overall and 4-2 in home games. The Athletics have hit 17 total home runs to rank seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n

Texas is 9-9 overall and 6-6 on the road. The Rangers are 6-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the fourth time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers<\/a> has a .304 batting average to lead the Athletics, and has three doubles and six home runs. Jeff McNeil<\/a> is 12 for 34 with three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with five home runs while slugging .521. Brandon Nimmo<\/a> is 11 for 40 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 8-2, .249 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .215 batting average, 3.13 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (oblique), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luis Curvelo<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ribs), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (back ), 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 (9-9, second in the AL West) vs. Athletics (10-8, first in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[537,5,226,63677,9977,75686,721,632,400,1332,7906,20651,19,4,149,3442,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-676811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brandon-nimmo","11":"tag-carter-baumler","12":"tag-chris-martin","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-jack-leiter","15":"tag-jacob-lopez","16":"tag-jake-burger","17":"tag-jeff-mcneil","18":"tag-jordan-montgomery","19":"tag-luis-curvelo","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-rangers","23":"tag-shea-langeliers","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-texas-rangers","26":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116413589034573280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676811","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=676811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676811\/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=676811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}