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Athletics<\/a> (53-85, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (68-70, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Brady Basso<\/a> (0-1, 4.50 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (7-10, 4.40 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 165 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -197, Athletics +159; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics, on a four-game losing streak, play the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

Texas is 68-70 overall and 37-29 at home. The Rangers are 29-14 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 53-85 overall and 28-41 in road games. The Athletics have gone 33-70 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game is the 12th meeting between these teams this season. The Athletics hold a 6-5 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Joc Pederson<\/a> leads the Rangers with 24 home runs while slugging .480. Justin Foscue<\/a> is 9 for 29 with three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jeff McNeil<\/a> has 19 doubles and six home runs for the Athletics. Lawrence Butler<\/a> is 12 for 34 with three doubles, a home run and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 4-6, .254 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Cole Winn: 15-Day IL (rotator cuff), Peyton Gray<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Josh Jung<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n

Athletics: Jacob Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Kurtz: 60-Day IL (thumb), Tyler Soderstrom: 60-Day IL (hip), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 10-Day IL (testicle), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Shea Langeliers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Athletics (53-85, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (68-70, second in the AL West) Arlington, Texas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,8809,63677,14905,75686,721,1950,1332,13,49931,395,27639,6616,9390,4810,1327,19,890,10942,4,3226,60825,13188,3442,69],"class_list":["post-793825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-brady-basso","tag-carter-baumler","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josh-jung","tag-justin-foscue","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-peyton-gray","tag-robert-garcia","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-texas-rangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117194969804231618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793825","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=793825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793825\/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=793825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}