Washington Nationals (61-67, fourth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers (62-65, second in the AL West), Arlington, Texas; Thursday, 7:05 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Andrew Alvarez (2-4, 3.72 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 69 strikeouts); Rangers: Jacob deGrom (8-8, 3.95 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 147 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Rangers -169, Nationals +139; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Both the Texas Rangers and the Washington Nationals are looking for a series win with a victory on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Texas has a 62-65 record overall and a 33-28 record in home games. The Rangers have a 46-6 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n
Washington has a 61-67 record overall and a 34-31 record on the road. The Nationals have the fifth-ranked team batting average in the NL at .251.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s game is the third time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n
Jacob Young has 16 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs and 43 RBIs for the Nationals. Abimelec Ortiz is 10 for 32 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 3-7, .213 batting average, 4.92 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n
Nationals: 4-6, .259 batting average, 3.87 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: Kyle Higashioka: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Carter Baumler: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman: 60-Day IL (hand), 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 (61-67, fourth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers (62-65, second in the AL West), Arlington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,429],"class_list":["post-411785","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\/411785","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=411785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}