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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (83-57, first in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (70-71, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Nick Martinez<\/a> (13-4, 2.99 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 91 strikeouts); Rangers: Trevor Williams<\/a> (0-0, 3.93 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -117, Rangers -104; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers host the Tampa Bay Rays with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 39-30 record in home games and a 70-71 record overall. Rangers hitters have a collective .398 slugging percentage to rank ninth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 83-57 overall and 36-32 on the road. Rays hitters have a collective .402 slugging percentage to rank eighth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> has 21 doubles, 23 home runs and 79 RBIs for the Rangers. Justin Foscue<\/a> is 8 for 30 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Liam Hicks<\/a> has 13 doubles, a triple and 17 home runs for the Rays. Junior Caminero<\/a> is 12 for 39 with two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .270 batting average, 5.44 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 6-4, .249 batting average, 3.30 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Cole Winn: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Peyton Gray<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Josh Jung<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), 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: Cole Sulser: 15-Day IL (back), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (83-57, first in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers (70-71, 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":[5,4806,63677,6925,75686,721,400,1180,49931,395,4682,27639,9390,7728,19,10942,4,761,60825,149,13188,1956,68,1567,69,3240,4718],"class_list":["post-796303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-carter-baumler","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josh-jung","tag-junior-caminero","tag-justin-foscue","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-liam-hicks","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-nick-martinez","tag-peyton-gray","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-trevor-williams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117212015691714932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796303","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=796303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796303\/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=796303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}