{"id":927496,"date":"2026-07-11T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/927496\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:14:14","slug":"texas-rangers-and-houston-astros-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/927496\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers and Houston Astros meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (46-50, third in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (48-46, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (7-5, 3.26 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 74 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (2-7, 3.95 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -139, Rangers +114; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers take a 1-0 advantage into the latest game of the series against the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n

Texas is 48-46 overall and 23-21 at home. The Rangers have gone 35-4 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 46-50 record overall and a 23-26 record in road games. The Astros are 20-5 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams play Saturday for the ninth time this season. The Astros lead the season series 5-3.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Jung<\/a> leads the Rangers with a .297 batting average, and has 23 doubles, nine home runs, 30 walks and 34 RBIs. Ezequiel Duran<\/a> is 10 for 39 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has a .312 batting average to lead the Astros, and has 16 doubles and 30 home runs. Yainer Diaz<\/a> is 9 for 38 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 6-4, .252 batting average, 4.96 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 4-6, .234 batting average, 5.38 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Jacob deGrom: day-to-day (glute), Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jakob Junis<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n

Astros: Lance McCullers: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kai-Wei Teng: 15-Day IL (knee), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros (46-50, third in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (48-46, first in the AL West) Arlington,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[89618,374134,67721,266673,69806,255655,280154,26948,4345,2382,117314,233618,171659,73252,244771,1884,117309,345796,52135,325834,358,1278,3187,35128,115777],"class_list":["post-927496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-carter-baumler","tag-danny-jansen","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jakob-junis","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-peter-lambert","tag-robert-garcia","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tx","tag-yainer-diaz","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116900584834039510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}