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Texas Rangers<\/a> (72-73, second in the AL West) vs. Seattle Mariners<\/a> (67-78, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Seattle; Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Cody Bradford<\/a> (0-4, 4.45 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 16 strikeouts); Mariners: Kade Anderson (0-1, 5.40 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mariners -128, Rangers +105; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 38-35 record in home games and a 67-78 record overall. The Mariners have the 10th-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.25.<\/p>\n

Texas is 32-41 in road games and 72-73 overall. The Rangers have a 54-8 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the 12th time these teams meet this season. The Rangers are ahead 8-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Randy Arozarena<\/a> has a .274 batting average to lead the Mariners, and has 28 doubles, a triple and 22 home runs. Cal Raleigh<\/a> is 13 for 37 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brandon Nimmo<\/a> has 31 doubles, four triples, 14 home runs and 58 RBIs while hitting .261 for the Rangers. Ezequiel Duran<\/a> is 12 for 39 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mariners: 3-7, .247 batting average, 5.72 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 6-4, .270 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mariners: Nick Davila: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), Brennen Davis<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Matt Brash<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Will Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (thumb), Colt Emerson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Emerson Hancock<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Luke Raley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Wilcox: 15-Day IL (oblique), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Cole Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Peyton Gray<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Josh Jung<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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 (72-73, second in the AL West) vs. Seattle Mariners (67-78, third in the AL West) Seattle;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,226,4492,29893,3297,63677,9391,13040,22897,764,75686,18086,721,49931,395,9390,19,620,2053,10942,4,60825,1456,619,65,3235,69,16021],"class_list":["post-800518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-brennen-davis","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cody-bradford","tag-cole-winn","tag-colt-emerson","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josh-jung","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mariners","tag-matt-brash","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-peyton-gray","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-texas-rangers","tag-will-wilson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117240787359077735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800518","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=800518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800518\/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=800518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}