Texas Rangers (55-52, first in the AL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (62-44, first in the AL East) in St. Petersburg, Florida; Wednesday, 5:40 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (6-8, 4.82 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 127 strikeouts); Rays: Ian Seymour (6-3, 4.64 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 86 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Rays -142, Rangers +117; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers bring a 1-0 lead into the next game of the series against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has a 62-44 record overall and a 38-16 record in home games. Rays hitters have a collective .332 on-base percentage, the best percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n
Texas has a 55-52 record overall and a 27-27 record in road games. The Rangers have a 26-11 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s game is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero leads the Rays with 29 home runs while slugging .550. Chandler Simpson is 16 for 36 with three doubles and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Joc Pederson leads the Rangers with 19 home runs while slugging .507. Wyatt Langford is 14 for 42 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 6-4, .285 batting average, 2.38 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n
Rangers: 6-4, .287 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rays: Jake Fraley: 10-Day IL (groin), Steven Wilson: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n
Rangers: Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Chris Martin: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Robert Garcia: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Carter Baumler: 60-Day IL (ribs), Danny Jansen: 10-Day IL (forearm), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Corniell: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Higashioka: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Jack Leiter: 15-Day IL (ankle), Jordan Montgomery: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Helman: 60-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers (55-52, first in the AL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (62-44, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,9004,3817,135,137,136,54141],"class_list":["post-356063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}