Chicago White Sox bring a 1-0 lead into the next game of the series<\/a> against the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\nTexas has a 24-23 record at home and a 50-50 record overall. Rangers hitters have a collective .319 on-base percentage, the fifth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n
Chicago has a 53-46 record overall and a 22-29 record on the road. White Sox hitters have a collective .413 slugging percentage to rank second in the AL.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Jung has 23 doubles, a triple and nine home runs for the Rangers. Brandon Nimmo is 10 for 36 with two doubles, a triple and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Miguel Vargas has 23 doubles, a triple and 21 home runs for the White Sox. Chase Meidroth is 11 for 34 with two doubles over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .257 batting average, 7.88 ERA, outscored by 30 runs<\/p>\n
White Sox: 6-4, .239 batting average, 2.53 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Robert Garcia: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Chris Martin: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), Jack Leiter: 15-Day IL (ankle), Jordan Montgomery: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler: 60-Day IL (ribs), Danny Jansen: 10-Day IL (forearm), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Helman: 60-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n
White Sox: Kyle Teel: day-to-day (ankle), Colson Montgomery: day-to-day (leg), Everson Pereira: 7-Day IL (concussion), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tyler Gilbert: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Hays: 60-Day IL (calf), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Chicago White Sox (53-46, first in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers (50-50, second in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1816,42750,7677,154,429],"class_list":["post-380811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380811","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=380811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}