{"id":385040,"date":"2026-07-24T12:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:35:34","slug":"mariners-vs-rangers-opens-four-game-series-with-al-west-lead-at-stake-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385040\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners vs. Rangers opens four-game series with AL West lead at stake \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Mariners (51-52, second in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (51-51, first in the AL West) in Arlington; Friday, 7:05 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: Bryce Miller (4-4, 2.27 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (6-8, 4.80 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 122 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Mariners -121, Rangers -101; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers start a four-game series at home against the Seattle Mariners on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has a 25-24 record in home games and a 51-51 record overall. The Rangers have the fourth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .246.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle has a 51-52 record overall and a 21-29 record on the road. The Mariners have a 34-16 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup Friday is the seventh time these teams match up this season. The Rangers have a 4-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners (51-52, second in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (51-51, first in the AL West) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385041,"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-385040","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\/385040","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=385040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}