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Texas Rangers<\/a> (15-16, third in the AL West) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (16-16, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (2-2, 4.35 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 42 strikeouts); Tigers: Jack Flaherty<\/a> (0-2, 5.33 ERA, 1.74 WHIP, 28 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -117, Rangers -102; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers open a three-game series at home against the Texas Rangers on Friday.<\/p>\n

Detroit has a 10-2 record at home and a 16-16 record overall. Tigers hitters have a collective .333 on-base percentage, the second-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

Texas is 8-8 in road games and 15-16 overall. Rangers hitters are batting a collective .236, which ranks eighth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> leads the Tigers with a .328 batting average, and has 11 doubles, two triples, two home runs, 19 walks and 13 RBIs. Riley Greene<\/a> is 13 for 36 with three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Josh Jung<\/a> leads the Rangers with a .317 batting average, and has 11 doubles, four home runs, 10 walks and 17 RBIs. Brandon Nimmo<\/a> is 10 for 38 with an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 4-6, .265 batting average, 5.49 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 4-6, .219 batting average, 3.44 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Javier Baez: 10-Day IL (ankle), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (groin), Zach McKinstry: 10-Day IL (hip\/abdominal), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (ankle), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Brandon Nimmo: day-to-day (hamstring), 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

___<\/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 (15-16, third in the AL West) vs. Detroit Tigers (16-16, second in the AL Central) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[29375,5,2259,226,63677,9977,53,75686,84,713,7906,395,388,4140,20651,19,4,149,768,624,13188,1567,69,3240,33608,385],"class_list":["post-687399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-texas-rangers","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-luis-curvelo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-troy-melton","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116498446645164251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687399","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=687399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}