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<\/a>Texas has dropped seven of its last 10 games, including an 11-8 setback to Cleveland as +115 road underdogs Friday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in six contests.\u00a0 The Rangers lost for the first time this season when scoring six or more runs, as they entered the series opener with a 29-0 record in that situation.\u00a0 Since this ballpark opened in 1994, the club owns a .575 winning percentage is the second-best mark of any AL team over that span.\u00a0 Texas is 7-5 on the road with a money line of -100 to -125 this season, with the OVER going 7-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n
Rangers starting pitcher Yu Darvish (9-4, 2.86 ERA) has alternated wins and losses over his last three starts, which includes a 3-0 home victory over the New York Yankees last time out, as he allowed two hits over 6.1 shutout frames.\u00a0 The right-hander is 3-1 with a 2.83 ERA in seven road games, with opposing hitters batting .173 against him.\u00a0 Darvish was handed a 4-2 road loss in his only career start against the Indians on May 6 of last season.<\/p>\n
Cleveland has won back-to-back games, with both games going OVER the betting total.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Indians are 14-4 against AL West teams, with the .778 winning percentage against that devision being the best in the majors.\u00a0 The starting rotation has compiled a 2.04 ERA since July 9, which happens to be the best mark in the Junior Circuit over that span.\u00a0 Cleveland is 9-7 as home underdogs of +100 to +125 this season, with the UNDER going 9-7 in those 16 opportunities.<\/p>\n
Indians starting pitcher Justin Masterson (11-7, 3.60 ERA) picked up a 7-1 road victory over the Minnesota Twins last time out, as he allowed one run and a single hit over seven strong frames.\u00a0 The right-hander is 6-2 with a 2.91 ERA in 11 home games, surrendering just two home runs in 74.1 combined innings.\u00a0 In eight career games (four starts) versus the Rangers, Masterson has tallied an 0-4 record and 6.49 ERA.<\/p>\n
Sports bettors will likely back the Rangers due to their 7-3 record in Darvish\u2019s last 10 starts as a favorite of -110 to -150.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Texas Rangers (56-47) and Cleveland Indians (54-48) will continue a three-game American League Central series at Progressive Field, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m. ET Texas Rangers vs. Cleveland Indians\u00a0 Texas has dropped seven of its last 10 games, including an 11-8 setback to Cleveland as +115 road underdogs Friday, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[151,57,1782,25,1783,771,6665],"class_list":["post-29443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-american-league","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-justin-masterson","tag-mlb","tag-progressive-field","tag-texas-rangers","tag-yu-darvish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443","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=29443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29444,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions\/29444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}