Rays take on the Rangers on home winning streak

By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
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Texas Rangers (29-33, third in the AL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (32-29, second in the AL East)

Tampa, Florida; Thursday, 7:35 p.m. EDT

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Jack Leiter (4-2, 3.66 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 36 strikeouts); Rays: Ryan Pepiot (3-5, 3.21 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 56 strikeouts)

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rays -146, Rangers +122; over/under is 9 runs

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays will try to keep a three-game home win streak going when they face the Texas Rangers.

Tampa Bay is 20-19 at home and 32-29 overall. The Rays have gone 13-5 in games when they did not give up a home run.

Texas is 9-20 in road games and 29-33 overall. The Rangers are 18-7 in games when they out-hit their opponents.

Thursday’s game is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Rangers have a 3-2 advantage in the season series.

TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero has 13 doubles and 14 home runs for the Rays. Brandon Lowe is 15 for 41 with four doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.

Wyatt Langford has eight doubles and 11 home runs for the Rangers. Marcus Semien is 10 for 29 with two doubles, a home run and four RBIs over the last 10 games.

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 7-3, .281 batting average, 1.73 ERA, outscored opponents by 47 runs

Rangers: 4-6, .206 batting average, 2.69 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs

INJURIES: Rays: Jonny Deluca: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ha-Seong Kim: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Bigge: 15-Day IL (lat), Shane McClanahan: 60-Day IL (tricep), Richie Palacios: 10-Day IL (knee), Alex Faedo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Lavender: 60-Day IL (elbow)

Rangers: Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (tricep), Joc Pederson: 10-Day IL (hand), Chris Martin: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jon Gray: 60-Day IL (wrist), Josh Sborz: 60-Day IL (shoulder)

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.