{"id":308935,"date":"2026-05-26T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308935\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:34:09","slug":"astros-bring-4-game-road-win-streak-into-matchup-with-the-rangers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308935\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros bring 4-game road win streak into matchup with the Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (24-31, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (24-29, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Jason Alexander<\/a> (1-0, 7.30 ERA, 1.70 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Rangers: Jack Leiter<\/a> (1-4, 4.61 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 60 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -136, Astros +115; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros visit the Texas Rangers trying to prolong a four-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 24-29 record overall and an 11-11 record in home games. Rangers pitchers have a collective 3.69 ERA, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Houston is 12-17 in road games and 24-31 overall. The Astros have the second-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .407.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The Astros have a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Jung<\/a> has 14 doubles and five home runs while hitting .302 for the Rangers. Jake Burger<\/a> is 10 for 33 with three doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has a .301 batting average to lead the Astros, and has 11 doubles and 16 home runs. Christian Walker is 9 for 37 with five home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 3-7, .225 batting average, 3.95 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 7-3, .207 batting average, 2.76 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Wyatt Langford<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cole Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Jung: day-to-day (shoulder), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (back ), Josh Smith: 10-Day IL (glute), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Astros: Yainer Diaz: 10-Day IL (abdominal), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Altuve<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Hunter Brown: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Taylor Trammell: 10-Day IL (groin), Lance McCullers: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Joey Loperfido: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josh Hader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (biceps), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 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":"Houston Astros (24-31, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (24-29, third in the AL West) Arlington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[91670,91668,88211,85055,91573,64550,91667,56,5513,58,57,53310,39086,103361,85056,57926,49682,39085,42750,45692,91669,429,53646,57925],"class_list":["post-308935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-jason-alexander","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-jose-altuve","tag-josh-hader","tag-josh-jung","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-robert-garcia","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-texas-rangers","tag-wyatt-langford","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}