Boston Red Sox (82-68, third in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers (74-76, second in the AL West), Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 7:05 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Patrick Sandoval (1-5, 4.58 ERA, 1.76 WHIP, 57 strikeouts); Rangers: Cody Bradford (0-5, 4.72 ERA, 1.57 WHIP, 17 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Red Sox -128, Rangers +104; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers host the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n
Texas is 74-76 overall and 40-32 in home games. The Rangers have the sixth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .317.<\/p>\n
Boston is 82-68 overall and 44-31 in road games. The Red Sox have the third-best team ERA in the majors at 3.59.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Tuesday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Nimmo has 33 doubles, four triples, 14 home runs and 60 RBIs while hitting .263 for the Rangers. Corey Seager is 12 for 42 with a double and five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Willson Contreras has 21 doubles, three triples, and 26 home runs for the Red Sox. Mickey Gasper is 7 for 33 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-5, .249 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n
Red Sox: 7-3, .218 batting average, 2.50 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: Carter Baumler: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cole Winn: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Michael Helman: 60-Day IL (hand), Kyle Higashioka: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Peyton Gray: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jack Leiter: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n
Red Sox: Anthony Seigler: 10-Day IL (right wrist), Johan Oviedo: 60-Day IL (elbow), Eli White: 10-Day IL (foot), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Justin Slaten: 15-Day IL (elbow), Eduardo Rivera: 60-Day IL (back), Zack Kelly: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Ceddanne Rafaela: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Tayron Guerrero: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Masataka Yoshida: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee), Tanner Houck: 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":"Boston Red Sox (82-68, third in the AL East) vs. Texas Rangers (74-76, second in the AL West),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,429],"class_list":["post-436707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436707","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=436707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}