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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (34-40, third in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (35-37, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Zebby Matthews<\/a> (2-4, 5.20 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 30 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (2-5, 3.56 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 52 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -139, Twins +115; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 17-15 record in home games and a 35-37 record overall. The Rangers have gone 26-4 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has gone 14-21 in road games and 34-40 overall. The Twins have a 21-8 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams play Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Nimmo<\/a> has 15 doubles, two triples and seven home runs for the Rangers. Jake Burger<\/a> is 11 for 33 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Byron Buxton<\/a> has 13 doubles, a triple and 23 home runs while hitting .276 for the Twins. Royce Lewis<\/a> is 11 for 32 with two doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .259 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 5-5, .253 batting average, 6.03 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Corey Seager: day-to-day (concussion), Michael Helman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Evan Carter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), 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

Twins: Cole Sands: 15-Day IL (forearm), Mick Abel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Ober: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kendry Rojas: 15-Day IL (elbow), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Jeffers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Pablo Lopez<\/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":"Minnesota Twins (34-40, third in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers (35-37, third in the AL West) Arlington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,226,2223,63677,9977,4789,3916,2266,75686,400,7906,360,19,10942,5158,822,60,3190,4,1997,13188,408,1252,69,148,767],"class_list":["post-727293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-byron-buxton","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-danny-jansen","tag-david-festa","tag-evan-carter","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-burger","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-robert-garcia","tag-royce-lewis","tag-ryan-jeffers","tag-texas-rangers","tag-twins","tag-zebby-matthews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116758948285739484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727293","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=727293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727293\/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=727293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}