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<\/a>Texas remains in the Bay Area after dropping three of four games against the lowly Oakland Athletics, including a 7-1 setback on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 The Rangers have now lost seven of nine, and are 18-21 since April 26.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s obvious we\u2019re not swinging the bats the way we\u2019re capable,\u201d commented Rangers manager Ron Washington.\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect a huge turnaround in this series, with the franchise being 0-9 all-time at this ball park.\u00a0 Texas is 10-8 against left-handed starters this season.<\/p>\n
Rangers starting pitcher Matt Harrison (7-3, 4.37 ERA) has won his last three outings, including a 7-3 road win over the Los Angeles Angels in his last effort, giving up three runs and four hits over 6.2 innings.\u00a0 The left-hander has tallied a winning 5-1 record and 4.31 ERA on the road this year, with opposing hitters batting .257 against him.\u00a0 Harrison will be making his first career appearance against the Giants, going 2-1 with a 2.28 ERA in four interleague starts in 2011.<\/p>\n
San Francisco is playing its best baseball of the season in winning nine of 11 games, as it returns home after winning two of three against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park.\u00a0 The Giants managed to collect 10 or more hits in each contest of that series.\u00a0 \u201cAny team can get hot at any time,\u201d stated Giants pitcher Matt Cain.\u00a0 Angel Pagan is the main player to watch offensively, hitting safely in 45 of his last 47 games.\u00a0 San Francisco is 13-5 against southpaw starters, with the \u201cunder\u201d going 11-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n
Giants starting pitcher Barry Zito (5-2, 2.98 ERA) has won four of his last five starts, including a 2-0 home win over the Chicago Cubs in his last outing, scattering four hits over 8.1 shutout innings.\u00a0 The left-hander has registered a perfect 3-0 record and 2.59 ERA in five home outings, holding opposing hitters to a .211 average.\u00a0 In 31 career games versus the Rangers, Zito has gone 18-5 with a 3.72 ERA, but didn\u2019t get a chance to face them in the 2010 World Series due to not being on the active roster.<\/p>\n
Bettors will likely back the Rangers due to their 8-0 mark in Harrison\u2019s last eight starts as a road favorite, while the Giants are 3-8 in Zito\u2019s last 11 outings versus winning teams.<\/p>\n
Make sure to check out our Major League Baseball picks<\/a> all season long and get the most up-to-date betting odds at Bookmaker<\/a><\/p>\n The Texas Rangers (33-25) and San Francisco Giants (33-25) will open up a three-game interleague series on Friday night at AT&T Park, with the first pitch scheduled for 10:15 ET Texas Rangers at San Francisco Giants\u00a0 Texas remains in the Bay Area after dropping three of four games against the lowly Oakland Athletics, including a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1611,55,4861,736,771],"class_list":["post-23306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-att-park","tag-barry-zito","tag-matt-harrison","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23308,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23306\/revisions\/23308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}