{"id":763566,"date":"2026-07-28T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763566\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:03:17","slug":"rays-host-the-rangers-look-to-extend-home-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763566\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays host the Rangers, look to extend home win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Rangers<\/a> (54-52, first in the AL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (62-43, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Cal Quantrill (3-3, 4.05 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Rays: Griffin Jax (6-7, 3.89 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 82 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -182, Rangers +147; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays, on a three-game home winning streak, host the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 38-15 at home and 62-43 overall. The Rays have the top team on-base percentage in the AL at .333.<\/p>\n

Texas is 54-52 overall and 26-27 on the road. Rangers hitters have a collective .321 on-base percentage, the fourth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yandy Diaz<\/a> leads the Rays with a .303 batting average, and has 18 doubles, a triple, 14 home runs, 40 walks and 61 RBIs. Chandler Simpson<\/a> is 16 for 35 with three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ezequiel Duran<\/a> has 19 doubles, three triples and 12 home runs for the Rangers. Joc Pederson<\/a> is 14 for 36 with four doubles and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 6-4, .289 batting average, 2.62 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .280 batting average, 5.83 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Jung<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand)<\/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 (54-52, first in the AL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (62-43, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,63677,457,9977,4789,6925,75686,18086,721,1180,13,7906,49931,395,9390,19,1095,10942,4,297,13188,1956,4274,2550,68,2551,2549,69,3348],"class_list":["post-763566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-chris-martin","tag-danny-jansen","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-fraley","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josh-jung","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-robert-garcia","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-texas-rangers","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116997036627238170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763566","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=763566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}