4:07 pm
May 29

Rangers @ Athletics

Who will WIN this matchup?

Texas Rangers (22-23)

@ Oakland Athletics (19-30)

 

Starting Pitchers:

Dunning (TEX): 1-3; 4.32 ERA

Kaprielian (OAK) 0-2; 5.48 ERA

 

Current odds:

Texas Rangers: (-128)

Oakland Athletics: (+108)

 

• The starting line-up for Texas is as follows:

 

• The starting line-up for Oakland is as follows:

 

• The Texas Rangers can reach .500 for the first time this season on Sunday as they bid for a four-game sweep of the host Oakland Athletics. The Rangers matched a season high with their fourth straight win in an 11-4 victory on Saturday. Marcus Semien had a grand slam and five RBIs and Corey Seager added a two-run homer and a triple. The grand slam for Semien, one of the Rangers’ two big offseason free agent acquisitions, was his first home run of the season. He also had a bases-loaded walk.

• Seager, Kole Calhoun and Andy Ibanez each recorded three of the Rangers’ season-best 18 hits. Every starter reached base and seven different Texas players scored at least one run.

• Texas is as close as it has been to the break-even mark since the first series of the year, when it lost its first two games to the Toronto Blue Jays before salvaging the finale of a three-game set.

• Texas will turn to right-hander Dane Dunning (1-3, 4.32 ERA) on Sunday. Dunning, 27, is 0-2 with a 4.88 ERA in four outings this month. He has yet to record a decision despite notching a 1.86 ERA in three career appearances (two starts) versus Oakland.

• The Athletics will counter with right-hander James Kaprielian (0-2, 5.48). He received his third straight no-decision on Tuesday despite surrendering season highs in runs (five) and hits (seven) against the Seattle Mariners. Kaprielian, 28, is 1-2 with a 4.50 ERA in six career starts versus the Rangers.

• Oakland lost the first two games of this series after its bullpen gave up runs in the ninth inning. The Athletics, however, were on the ropes from almost the start on Saturday. Starter Zach Logue absorbed the loss in his second straight rocky outing since a short stint at Triple-A Las Vegas. He lasted just 2 1/3 innings, surrendering four runs on seven hits with one walk and one strikeout.

• Ramon Laureano had a home run for the Athletics in Saturday’s loss.

• Laureano, Chad Pinder and Christian Bethancourt had two hits apiece and Sheldon Neuse had two RBIs for the Athletics, who dropped their third straight game.

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