{"id":780121,"date":"2026-08-16T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:57:18","slug":"athletics-square-off-against-the-rangers-with-series-tied-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780121\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics square off against the Rangers with series tied 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Rangers<\/a> (61-63, second in the AL West) vs. Athletics<\/a> (48-75, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Cody Bradford<\/a> (0-1, 2.38 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, six strikeouts); Athletics: Jacob Lopez<\/a> (5-4, 5.38 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 75 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -163, Athletics +142; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics and Texas Rangers meet on Sunday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 48-75 overall and 22-40 at home. The Athletics have a 29-63 record in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Texas is 61-63 overall and 29-36 in road games. Rangers hitters have a collective .315 on-base percentage, the ninth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Sunday for the 10th time this season. The Athletics lead the season series 5-4.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> has 27 doubles, three triples and 19 home runs while hitting .245 for the Athletics. Lawrence Butler<\/a> is 7 for 38 with four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Joc Pederson<\/a> has 11 doubles, two triples, 22 home runs and 46 RBIs for the Rangers. Brandon Nimmo<\/a> is 10 for 37 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 3-7, .222 batting average, 6.21 ERA, outscored by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .209 batting average, 3.93 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Jacob Wilson<\/a>: day-to-day (hand), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Jose Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Nick Kurtz: 10-Day IL (thumb), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jeffrey Springs<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Shea Langeliers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 10-Day IL (testicle), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Jacob deGrom: day-to-day (tricep), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Josh Jung<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/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 (61-63, second in the AL West) vs. Athletics (48-75, fifth in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,226,63677,9391,4789,14905,75686,721,632,1950,3239,13,49931,157,395,6616,9390,4810,1327,19,890,10942,4,3226,13188,3442,69,544],"class_list":["post-780121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cody-bradford","tag-danny-jansen","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jacob-lopez","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jeffrey-springs","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jose-corniell","tag-jose-suarez","tag-josh-jung","tag-justin-sterner","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-robert-garcia","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tyler-soderstrom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117104596935904934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780121","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=780121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}