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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (82-69, third in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (75-76, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Jake Bennett<\/a> (9-7, 3.69 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 83 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (8-11, 4.62 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 172 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -112, Red Sox -109; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers bring a 1-0 advantage into the latest game of the series against the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 41-32 record at home and a 75-76 record overall. Rangers hitters have a collective .399 slugging percentage to rank ninth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Boston is 82-69 overall and 44-32 on the road. Red Sox hitters have a collective .403 slugging percentage to rank fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the fifth time these teams match up this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> has 21 doubles, 26 home runs and 83 RBIs for the Rangers. Corey Seager<\/a> is 13 for 42 with a double and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 36 doubles, four triples and 24 home runs for the Red Sox. Trevor Story<\/a> is 12 for 40 with three doubles and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .243 batting average, 4.81 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 6-4, .216 batting average, 2.43 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Joc Pederson<\/a>: day-to-day (hand), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Peyton Gray<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Cole Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Anthony Seigler<\/a>: 10-Day IL (right wrist), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Eli White: 10-Day IL (foot), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Eduardo Rivera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Ceddanne Rafaela: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Tayron Guerrero: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Boston Red Sox (82-69, third in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers (75-76, 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":[24971,5,48,63677,13040,384,74108,75686,721,49841,400,13,5416,49931,1093,9390,19,792,10942,4,60825,149,1567,69,3240,1035,1946,606,15821],"class_list":["post-806331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-anthony-seigler","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-corey-seager","tag-eduardo-rivera","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-bennett","tag-jake-burger","tag-joc-pederson","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jose-corniell","tag-justin-slaten","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-peyton-gray","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-trevor-story","tag-triston-casas","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117279869086706061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806331","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=806331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806331\/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=806331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}