{"id":747937,"date":"2026-07-10T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/747937\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:09:24","slug":"rangers-take-on-the-astros-in-first-of-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/747937\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers take on the Astros in first of 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (46-49, third in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (47-46, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Hunter Brown<\/a> (1-0, 3.38 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 35 strikeouts); Rangers: Cal Quantrill (3-1, 3.35 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 27 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -143, Rangers +118; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers host the Houston Astros to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 22-21 record at home and a 47-46 record overall. The Rangers have the fifth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .244.<\/p>\n

Houston is 23-25 on the road and 46-49 overall. The Astros have the ninth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .315.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the eighth time this season. The Astros are up 5-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Jung<\/a> leads the Rangers with a .297 batting average, and has 23 doubles, nine home runs, 29 walks and 34 RBIs. Ezequiel Duran<\/a> is 11 for 40 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with a .310 batting average, and has 16 doubles, 29 home runs, 59 walks and 67 RBIs. Isaac Paredes<\/a> is 11 for 40 with two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 6-4, .247 batting average, 4.85 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 5-5, .227 batting average, 4.85 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jakob Junis<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n

Astros: Jeremy Pena<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Lance McCullers: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kai-Wei Teng: 15-Day IL (knee), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/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":"Houston Astros (46-49, third in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (47-46, 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":[2393],"tags":[5,3616,13576,3225,63677,4789,75686,18086,1432,54,1328,893,721,8640,5828,7906,395,19,10942,4,149,13188,766,1567,69,3240,2264],"class_list":["post-747937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-carter-baumler","tag-danny-jansen","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston-astros","tag-hunter-brown","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jakob-junis","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116894902726251219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747937","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=747937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747937\/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=747937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}