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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (38-50, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (45-43, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Jack Flaherty<\/a> (1-8, 4.97 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 87 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (2-6, 3.83 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 70 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -120, Rangers -102; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

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

Texas has a 45-43 record overall and a 20-18 record at home. Rangers pitchers have a collective 4.00 ERA, which ranks seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 38-50 overall and 15-29 in road games. The Tigers are 15-8 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Joc Pederson<\/a> leads the Rangers with 14 home runs while slugging .472. Wyatt Langford<\/a> is 16 for 39 with three doubles, five home runs and 12 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> leads the Tigers with 19 home runs while slugging .531. Kevin McGonigle<\/a> is 11 for 39 with a double, a home run and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 7-3, .276 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 4-6, .243 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Jordan Montgomery: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Nimmo<\/a>: day-to-day (shoulder), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Wyatt Langford: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Will Vest: 15-Day IL (elbow), Javier Baez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gleyber Torres: 10-Day IL (oblique), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brant Hurter: 60-Day IL (back), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Jobe<\/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":"Detroit Tigers (38-50, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers (45-43, first in the AL West) Arlington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[29375,5,226,63677,9977,4789,147,53,2583,1390,75686,84,721,713,1329,13,388,4140,360,19,10942,4,768,13188,69,594,385],"class_list":["post-742774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-danny-jansen","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-joc-pederson","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tigers","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116860928895822485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742774","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=742774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742774\/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=742774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}