Pregame Notes: MLB All-Star Break Looms as Rangers Host Mariners
ARLINGTON - The Texas Rangers host the streaking Seattle Mariners in the final game of a four-game set Sunday afternoon at Globe Life Field. The Rangers have dropped all three games to the AL West rival Mariners, who are on a season-high 13-game winning streak. This is the final game for Texas before the MLB All-Star Break.
The Rangers don’t seem to have an answer for one-run games, extra innings or Seattle, as they lost 3-2 in 10 innings on Saturday. Texas is now 1-5 at home in extra-inning games and 5-20 in one-run games.
Can Corey Seager keep it up at the plate? Seager has hits in season-high nine straight games, raising his batting average to .249.
In the AL West standings, Texas has fallen to third behind the first-place Houston Astros and 6.5 games behind the second-place Mariners. Seattle currently holds a Wild Card spot at 50-42 after sweeping the Washington Nationals in Wednesday's doubleheader.
Here’s everything you need to know.
Texas Rangers (41-48) vs. Seattle Mariners (50-42)
Sunday, July 17, 2022
1:35 PM CT
Globe Life Field | Arlington, TX
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Probables:
TEX: Glenn Otto RHP (4-5, 5.50 ERA)
SEA: Chris Flexen RHP (6-8, 3.84 ERA)
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Broadcast
Texas Rangers
TV: Bally Sports Southwest
Radio: KRLD, 105.3 The Fan, KFLC 1270 AM
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Seattle Mariners
TV: Root NW
Radio: KIRO 710
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Texas Rangers Starting Lineup
1. 3B Josh Smith
2. 2B Marcus Semien
3. SS Corey Seager
4. 1B Nathaniel Lowe
5. RF Adolis Garcia
6. CF Leody Taveras
7. LF Kole Calhoun
8. DH Brad Miller
9. C Meibrys Viloria
Seattle Mariners Starting Lineup
1. CF Julio Rodriguez
2. 1B Ty France
3. LF Jesse Winker
4. DH Carlos Santana
5. 3B Eugenio Suarez
6. SS J.P. Crawford
7. C Cal Raleigh
8. 2B Adam Frazier
9. RF Sam Haggerty
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Betting Odds The Rangers are 1.5-run underdogs.
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Rangers Injury Report
10-Day/15-Day Injured List
Joe Barlow: 15-Day IL (blister), Dane Dunning: 15-Day IL (ankle)
60-Day Injured List
C/DH Mitch Garver placed on 60-day Injured List for right forearm flexor tendon repair surgery
OF Eli White (right wrist fracture): The Rangers moved him from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL on June 21. White had surgery on the wrist and is expected to miss the next six to eight weeks.
