{"id":683188,"date":"2026-04-26T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/683188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:37:30","slug":"rangers-and-athletics-play-to-decide-series-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/683188\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers and Athletics play to decide series winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Arlington, Texas; Sunday, 2:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: J.T. Ginn<\/a> (0-0, 3.74 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (1-1, 3.48 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -129, Athletics +109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers and Athletics meet on Sunday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 6-5 record in home games and a 14-13 record overall. The Rangers have a 10-6 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 14-13 overall and 9-8 on the road. Athletics hitters have a collective .392 slugging percentage to rank fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Sunday is the seventh time these teams square off this season. The season series is tied 3-3.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Jung<\/a> has nine doubles, four home runs and 14 RBIs for the Rangers. Corey Seager<\/a> is 10 for 37 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Shea Langeliers<\/a> has four doubles and eight home runs for the Athletics. Jacob Wilson<\/a> is 15 for 44 with three doubles, two home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .251 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

Athletics: 5-5, .259 batting average, 5.09 ERA, outscored 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 (14-13, first in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (14-13, second in the AL West) Arlington, Texas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[537,5,63677,9977,384,14905,75686,631,1950,7906,395,360,20651,19,4,149,13188,3442,1567,69,3240,385],"class_list":["post-683188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-texas-rangers","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-corey-seager","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-j-t-ginn","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-luis-curvelo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116470339595703636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683188","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=683188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}