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New York Yankees<\/a> (18-10, first in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (14-14, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Monday, 8:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Max Fried<\/a> (3-1, 2.40 ERA, 0.77 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Rangers: Jack Leiter<\/a> (1-1, 4.97 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 29 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers host the New York Yankees on Monday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 6-6 record in home games and a 14-14 record overall. The Rangers have a 7-4 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

New York has an 18-10 record overall and a 10-5 record on the road. The Yankees have a 2-6 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Nimmo<\/a> has seven doubles, a triple and four home runs for the Rangers. Josh Jung<\/a> is 16 for 39 with eight doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge<\/a> ranks second on the Yankees with 13 extra base hits (three doubles and 10 home runs). Ben Rice<\/a> is 11 for 35 with two doubles, five home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .253 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

Yankees: 8-2, .268 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 30 runs<\/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

Yankees: Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: day-to-day (leg), Angel Chivilli: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gerrit Cole: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Volpe<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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":"New York Yankees (18-10, first in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers (14-14, second in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[106,1205,5,731,226,2004,63677,9977,1216,75686,310,721,7906,395,20651,19,108,4,62,149,13188,1567,69,3240,385],"class_list":["post-684032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-texas-rangers","tag-aaron-judge","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-luis-curvelo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116476115892705046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684032","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=684032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}