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Texas Rangers<\/a> (16-17, second in the AL West) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (17-17, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Jack Leiter<\/a> (1-2, 5.17 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 33 strikeouts); Tigers: Tyler Holton<\/a> (0-1, 5.54 ERA, 1.92 WHIP, nine strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 17-17 overall and 11-3 at home. Tigers hitters have a collective .333 on-base percentage, the second-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 16-17 record overall and a 9-9 record on the road. The Rangers have an 11-6 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> leads the Tigers with a .310 batting average, and has 11 doubles, two triples, two home runs, 19 walks and 14 RBIs. Riley Greene<\/a> is 14 for 38 with three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with six home runs while slugging .400. Josh Jung<\/a> is 15 for 38 with two home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 5-5, .265 batting average, 4.39 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 4-6, .226 batting average, 3.74 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Gleyber Torres: day-to-day (side), Will Vest: 15-Day IL (forearm), Zach McKinstry: 10-Day IL (hip\/abdominal), Javier Baez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (groin), 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: Wyatt Langford<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), 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), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ribs), 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 (16-17, second in the AL West) vs. Detroit Tigers (17-17, 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":[2386],"tags":[29375,5,2259,63677,9977,147,53,2583,75686,721,713,400,1329,7906,395,388,4140,20651,19,4,768,624,13188,69,594,33608,625,385],"class_list":["post-689138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-detroit-tigers","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-jake-burger","tag-javier-baez","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-luis-curvelo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tigers","tag-troy-melton","tag-tyler-holton","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116509971787368611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689138","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=689138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}