Athletics (53-85, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (68-70, second in the AL West), Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 7:05 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Brady Basso (0-1, 4.50 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (7-10, 4.40 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 165 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Rangers -197, Athletics +159; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics, on a four-game losing streak, play the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n
Texas is 68-70 overall and 37-29 at home. The Rangers are 29-14 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n
The Athletics are 53-85 overall and 28-41 in road games. The Athletics have gone 33-70 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s game is the 12th meeting between these teams this season. The Athletics hold a 6-5 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Joc Pederson leads the Rangers with 24 home runs while slugging .480. Justin Foscue is 9 for 29 with three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jeff McNeil has 19 doubles and six home runs for the Athletics. Lawrence Butler is 12 for 34 with three doubles, a home run and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n
Athletics: 4-6, .254 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: Cole Winn: 15-Day IL (rotator cuff), Peyton Gray: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman: 60-Day IL (hand), Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Robert Garcia: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jack Leiter: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n
Athletics: Jacob Wilson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Kurtz: 60-Day IL (thumb), Tyler Soderstrom: 60-Day IL (hip), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 10-Day IL (testicle), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Sterner: 60-Day IL (knee), Mark Leiter Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Shea Langeliers: 10-Day IL (knee), Luis Severino: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Athletics (53-85, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (68-70, second in the AL West), Arlington, Texas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,429],"class_list":["post-422735","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\/422735","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=422735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}