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Texas Rangers<\/a> (72-75, second in the AL West) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (78-69, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (5-11, 4.61 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 127 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Merrill Kelly<\/a> (9-13, 5.06 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 99 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Diamondbacks -132, Rangers +107; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks host the Texas Rangers to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Arizona has a 41-31 record in home games and a 78-69 record overall. The Diamondbacks have a 54-10 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Texas is 32-43 on the road and 72-75 overall. The Rangers are 37-57 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nolan Arenado<\/a> leads the Diamondbacks with 23 home runs while slugging .429. Gabriel Moreno<\/a> is 11 for 37 with a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with 26 home runs while slugging .433. Corey Seager<\/a> is 10 for 38 with four home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 5-5, .218 batting average, 3.07 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .257 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Corbin Carroll: day-to-day (back), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Rangers: Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), 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), 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 (72-75, second in the AL West) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (78-69, third in the NL West) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[13491,22,5,63677,13040,384,75686,5993,721,400,49931,360,9390,19,660,10942,4,1028,60825,149,655,5938,1567,69,3240],"class_list":["post-802191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-corey-seager","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-moreno","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-jose-corniell","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-peyton-gray","tag-rangers","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117251699041159408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802191","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=802191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802191\/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=802191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}