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New York Mets<\/a> (73-85, fifth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (78-80, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Thursday, 2:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Zach Thornton<\/a> (5-5, 3.40 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 59 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (5-11, 4.47 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 134 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -111, Rangers -110; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers come into a matchup against the New York Mets as losers of three straight games.<\/p>\n

Texas is 78-80 overall and 44-36 in home games. The Rangers have the sixth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .317.<\/p>\n

New York is 73-85 overall and 37-40 in road games. The Mets have the eighth-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.15.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Thursday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> has 23 doubles, 27 home runs and 89 RBIs while hitting .231 for the Rangers. Josh Jung<\/a> is 12 for 41 with three doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Juan Soto<\/a> has 11 doubles, two triples and 27 home runs for the Mets. Carson Benge<\/a> is 12 for 41 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 6-4, .234 batting average, 3.90 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 4-6, .242 batting average, 3.36 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Cal Quantrill: 60-Day IL (lat), Joc Pederson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Michel Otanez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Cole Winn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n

Mets: Christian Scott: 15-Day IL (knee), Jared Young<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), Daniel Duarte: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Robert Stock<\/a>: 15-Day IL (fingers), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 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":"New York Mets (73-85, fifth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers (78-80, 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":[5,5805,63677,13040,75686,721,400,15622,13,120,49931,395,134,360,9390,19,41515,4,61,149,10916,1567,69,3240,93940],"class_list":["post-812969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-carson-benge","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-jared-young","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josh-jung","tag-juan-soto","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michel-otanez","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-rangers","tag-robert-stock","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-zac-thornton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117325332687971986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812969","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=812969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812969\/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=812969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}