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Texas Rangers<\/a> (34-36, third in the AL West) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (29-39, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> (5-7, 4.26 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 77 strikeouts); Red Sox: Connelly Early (5-4, 3.30 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 69 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -112, Rangers -107; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox and the Texas Rangers play the final game of a three-game series. The Red Sox can sweep the series with a win.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 12-21 record in home games and a 29-39 record overall. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 3.88 ERA, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 17-22 record in road games and a 34-36 record overall. The Rangers have a 15-5 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Willson Contreras<\/a> leads the Red Sox with 27 extra base hits (11 doubles, two triples and 14 home runs). Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 15 for 41 with three doubles, two home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brandon Nimmo<\/a> has 13 doubles, two triples, seven home runs and 23 RBIs for the Rangers. Jake Burger<\/a> is 9 for 31 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 4-6, .240 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .254 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Jovani Moran<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Nick Sogard: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Romy Gonzalez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Corey Seager: day-to-day (ribs\/jaw), Evan Carter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Josh Smith: 10-Day IL (glute), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (34-36, third in the AL West) vs. Boston Red Sox (29-39, fifth in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,48,226,63677,1396,9977,4789,2266,75686,400,5416,7906,24530,19,4,394,149,13188,793,1083,1567,69,3240,1946,409],"class_list":["post-725628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carter-baumler","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-chris-martin","tag-danny-jansen","tag-evan-carter","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-burger","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-jovani-moran","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-roman-anthony","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116747930393793989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725628","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=725628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}