{"id":735938,"date":"2026-06-26T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:36:18","slug":"blue-jays-host-the-rangers-on-3-game-home-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735938\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays host the Rangers on 3-game home losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> (7-7, 4.24 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 92 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Patrick Corbin<\/a> (2-3, 4.73 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 47 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -115, Blue Jays -106; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays aim to break their three-game home skid with a victory over the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

Toronto has a 22-21 record in home games and a 39-42 record overall. The Blue Jays have the eighth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.13.<\/p>\n

Texas has gone 20-24 on the road and 39-42 overall. The Rangers have a 31-16 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the second meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> leads the Blue Jays with 29 extra base hits (11 doubles and 18 home runs). George Springer<\/a> is 12 for 41 with a double, two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brandon Nimmo<\/a> has 19 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 28 RBIs for the Rangers. Wyatt Langford<\/a> is 14 for 41 with two doubles and five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 4-6, .265 batting average, 5.46 ERA, outscored by 19 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Lenyn Sosa: 10-Day IL (wrist), Ernie Clement<\/a>: day-to-day (hip), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), 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: Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), Evan Carter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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), 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 (39-42, fourth in the AL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (39-42, third in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[6081,383,5,226,63677,9977,4789,6130,2266,75686,311,721,4619,7906,387,3685,19,381,10942,4,394,444,149,13188,1567,69,3240,70,385,2077],"class_list":["post-735938","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-ernie-clement","tag-evan-carter","tag-event_preview","tag-george-springer","tag-jack-leiter","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-jose-berrios","tag-kazuma-okamoto","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-wyatt-langford","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116815736600777381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735938","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=735938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}