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Texas Rangers<\/a> (55-55, second in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (56-55, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Jacob deGrom (7-6, 3.67 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 132 strikeouts); Astros: Ronel Blanco<\/a> (0-1, 8.10 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -131, Rangers +109; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros play the Texas Rangers after Yainer Diaz<\/a> had four hits against the Rangers on Friday.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 56-55 record overall and a 27-27 record at home. The Astros are 37-11 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Texas is 27-30 in road games and 55-55 overall. The Rangers have gone 28-44 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the 12th time this season. The Astros lead the season series 7-4.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has 20 doubles and 35 home runs while hitting .324 for the Astros. Jeremy Pena<\/a> is 19 for 46 with two doubles and six home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 9-1, .270 batting average, 3.84 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .251 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Mike Burrows: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Arrighetti<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Brice Matthews: 10-Day IL (knee), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Jakob Junis<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), 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 (55-55, second in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros (56-55, first in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,13576,3225,63677,9977,4789,75686,54,721,8640,5828,7906,49931,9390,19,10942,4,149,13188,766,4678,1567,69,3240,5355,2264],"class_list":["post-767042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-danny-jansen","tag-event_preview","tag-houston-astros","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jakob-junis","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-jose-corniell","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-yainer-diaz","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117019674076816943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767042","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=767042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767042\/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=767042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}