{"id":316643,"date":"2026-05-31T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316643\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:42:09","slug":"texas-rangers-lineup-for-may-31-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316643\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers lineup for May 31, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Texas Rangers lineup for May 31, 2026 against the Kansas City Royals: starting pitchers are <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/12561\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jack Leiter;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jack Leiter&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Leiter<\/a> for the Rangers and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/9329\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michael Wacha;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Michael Wacha&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Wacha<\/a> for the Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Rangers look to try to sweep the Royals this afternoon. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/12563\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Evan Carter;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Evan Carter&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Carter<\/a>, who got hit in the foot with a pitch on Friday, is sitting for the second day in a row. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/60436\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alejandro Osuna;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Alejandro Osuna&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Osuna<\/a>, who was hit in the finger while bunting yesterday and left the game, is starting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The lineup:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pederson \u2014 DH<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jung \u2014 1B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nimmo \u2014 RF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Burger \u2014 1B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Duran \u2014 SS<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Osuna \u2014 LF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Higashioka \u2014 C<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lopez \u2014 2B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Helman \u2014 CF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">1:35 p.m. Central start time. The game is a pick \u2018em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers lineup for May 31, 2026 against the Kansas City Royals: starting pitchers are Jack Leiter for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[84006,150,39084,53310,63983,84819,93170,27,29,28,429,84820,81192],"class_list":["post-316643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alejandro-osuna","tag-arlington","tag-evan-carter","tag-jack-leiter","tag-joc-pederson","tag-michael-wacha","tag-starting-pitchers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-the-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316643","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=316643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}