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Texas Rangers<\/a> (38-42, fourth in the AL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (39-41, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Thursday, 7:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (4-6, 4.07 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 92 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Kevin Gausman<\/a> (4-5, 4.04 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 89 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -156, Rangers +126; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays begin a four-game series at home against the Texas Rangers on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 22-20 in home games and 39-41 overall. The Blue Jays have the eighth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .249.<\/p>\n

Texas has gone 19-24 in road games and 38-42 overall. The Rangers rank 10th in the AL with 83 total home runs, averaging one per game.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> has 11 doubles and 17 home runs for the Blue Jays. George Springer<\/a> is 12 for 41 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with 13 home runs while slugging .440. Brandon Nimmo<\/a> is 15 for 43 with six doubles, a triple, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.25 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 4-6, .269 batting average, 5.36 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Ernie Clement: day-to-day (hip), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Lenyn Sosa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Corey Seager: day-to-day (concussion), Evan Carter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), 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 (38-42, fourth in the AL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (39-41, third 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":[6081,383,5,226,63677,9977,4789,2266,75686,311,721,400,4619,7906,387,3685,389,6646,19,381,10942,4,149,13188,1567,69,3240,70,2077],"class_list":["post-735085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-addison-barger","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-danny-jansen","tag-evan-carter","tag-event_preview","tag-george-springer","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-jose-berrios","tag-kazuma-okamoto","tag-kevin-gausman","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116810038886208517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735085","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=735085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735085\/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=735085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}