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<\/a>Texas has won four games in a row, including a 7-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks as -250 home favorites Thursday, while going UNDER the betting total for the fifth time in six contests.\u00a0 The Rangers are now 3.5 games back of the Athletics in the division standings, but their recent play has the clubhouse excited for the weekend.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s nice to be on a win streak, but we have to go up in there and continue to play good ball,\u201d commented Rangers manager Ron Washington.\u00a0 Texas is 28-13 versus the division opponents this season, with the OVER going 20-18-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n
Rangers starting pitcher Alexi Ogando (4-3, 3.05 ERA) has watched the club drop his last two efforts, including a 6-0 road defeat to the Cleveland Indians last time out, as he allowed one run and six hits over 4.2 frames.\u00a0 The right-hander is 2-3 with a 3.14 ERA in nine road outings, with opposing hitters batting .239 against him.\u00a0 In 16 career games (two starts) versus the Athletics, Ogando has posted a 1-1 record and 3.60 ERA, including a 6-2 victory at this ballpark on May 15.<\/p>\n
Oakland has dropped back-to-back games, including a 5-2 setback to the Toronto Blue Jays as -147 home favorites Wednesday, while going UNDER the total in both of those contests.\u00a0 The Athletics went 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position in their last affair, as they try to avoid losing three consecutive games for the first time since a five-game slide May 6-10.\u00a0 Oakland is 8-2 when playing after an off day this season, with the OVER cashing in six of those contests.<\/p>\n
Athletics starting pitcher Tommy Milone (9-8, 4.10 ERA) is coming off a 3-1 home victory over the Los Angeles Angels, as he allowed a single run and four hits over seven innigs of work.\u00a0 The left-hander is 5-3 with a 2.97 ERA in nine home efforts this season, surrendering 11 home runs in 57.2 combined frames.\u00a0 In four lifetime appearances versus the Rangers, Milone has compiled a 0-3 record and 4.24 ERA, including a 9-4 road loss on June 19.<\/p>\n
Sports bettors will likely back the Athletics due to their 5-0 record in Milone\u2019s last five outings as a favorite.<\/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 (60-49) and Oakland Athletics (63-45) will open up a three-game American League West series Friday at the O.co Coliseum, with the first pitch scheduled for 10:05 p.m. ET Texas Rangers vs. Oakland Athletics\u00a0 Texas has won four games in a row, including a 7-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks as -250 home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[4840,5070,25,7461,1449,771,6742],"class_list":["post-29569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-alexi-ogando","tag-american-league-west","tag-mlb","tag-o-co-coliseum","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tommy-milone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569","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=29569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29570,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions\/29570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}