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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (83-56, first in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (69-71, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (10-6, 3.19 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 103 strikeouts); Rangers: Cal Quantrill (6-5, 3.01 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 68 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -129, Rangers +106; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers host the Tampa Bay Rays to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n

Texas has gone 38-30 at home and 69-71 overall. The Rangers have gone 22-13 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has an 83-56 record overall and a 36-31 record on the road. The Rays are 32-6 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Joc Pederson<\/a> leads the Rangers with 24 home runs while slugging .482. Ezequiel Duran<\/a> is 13 for 37 with three home runs and 11 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> has 20 doubles, a triple, 37 home runs and 88 RBIs for the Rays. Yandy Diaz<\/a> is 10 for 40 with two doubles, two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .269 batting average, 5.76 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Rays: 7-3, .260 batting average, 3.07 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Cole Winn<\/a>: 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), 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

Rays: Jake Fraley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Sulser<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ben Williamson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/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":"Tampa Bay Rays (83-56, first in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers (69-71, second in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4806,63677,7882,13040,6925,75686,18086,721,1180,13,49931,4682,9390,19,10942,4,60825,149,13188,1956,5720,68,1567,69,3240,3348],"class_list":["post-795553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-sulser","tag-cole-winn","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-fraley","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jose-corniell","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-peyton-gray","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117206353395854375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795553","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=795553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795553\/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=795553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}