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Athletics<\/a> (14-12, first in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (13-13, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (3-1, 3.34 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 27 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (2-2, 4.15 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 35 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -137, Athletics +116; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics face the Texas Rangers leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Texas is 5-5 in home games and 13-13 overall. The Rangers have a 6-3 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 14-12 overall and 9-7 on the road. The Athletics have the ninth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.57.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Athletics hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Jung<\/a> has nine doubles, three home runs and 12 RBIs for the Rangers. Corey Seager<\/a> is 9 for 37 with four doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Shea Langeliers<\/a> has four doubles, eight home runs and 14 RBIs for the Athletics. Nick Kurtz<\/a> is 12 for 35 with a double, four home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6, .246 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 6-4, .257 batting average, 4.74 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Robert Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Wyatt Langford<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ribs), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (back ), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luis Curvelo<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps)<\/p>\n

Athletics: Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (oblique), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Athletics (14-12, first in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (13-13, second in the AL West) Arlington, Texas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2393],"tags":[537,5,63677,9977,384,14905,75686,7906,395,20651,19,4,459,149,13188,3442,1567,69,3240,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-682398","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-carter-baumler","11":"tag-chris-martin","12":"tag-corey-seager","13":"tag-denzel-clarke","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-jordan-montgomery","16":"tag-josh-jung","17":"tag-luis-curvelo","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-nick-kurtz","21":"tag-rangers","22":"tag-robert-garcia","23":"tag-shea-langeliers","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-texas-rangers","26":"tag-texasrangers","27":"tag-wyatt-langford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116465098004322431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682398","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=682398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682398\/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=682398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}