Washington Nationals (60-67, fourth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers (62-64, second in the AL West), Arlington, Texas; Wednesday, 7:05 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Cade Cavalli (10-5, 3.36 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 151 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker (4-9, 4.50 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 106 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Rangers -141, Nationals +117; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals, on a four-game losing streak, play the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n
Texas has a 33-27 record at home and a 62-64 record overall. The Rangers have hit 140 total home runs to rank ninth in the AL.<\/p>\n
Washington is 33-31 on the road and 60-67 overall. The Nationals have gone 34-53 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n
The teams square off Wednesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger has 18 doubles and 21 home runs for the Rangers. Corey Seager is 9 for 36 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
CJ Abrams leads the Nationals with a .280 batting average and has 24 doubles, three triples, 29 home runs, 46 walks, and 91 RBIs. Jacob Young is 12 for 33 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6, .221 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n
Nationals: 4-6, .255 batting average, 4.18 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Carter Baumler: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman: 60-Day IL (hand), Jacob deGrom: day-to-day (tricep), Robert Garcia: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jack Leiter: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n
Nationals: James Wood: 10-Day IL (oblique), Drew Millas: 10-Day IL (finger), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connelly Early: 15-Day IL (elbow), Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow), PJ Poulin: 60-Day IL (flexor), Richard Lovelady: 60-Day IL (tricep), Mitchell Parker: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/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":"Washington Nationals (60-67, fourth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers (62-64, second in the AL West), Arlington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,429],"class_list":["post-410788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410788","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=410788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}