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<\/a>Texas is 6-2 on its current road trip, as it comes off a 5-4 win over the Minnesota Twins as +113 road underdogs Thursday, while going OVER the betting total of 8.5.\u00a0 The Rangers are being led by third baseman Adrian Beltre offensively, as he\u2019s batting .395 over his last 11 games.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that closer Joakim Soria could be unavailable for this affair, as he\u2019s thrown in three consecutive contests.\u00a0 Texas is 5-2 as road underdogs of +150 to +175, with the OVER cashing in six of those opportunities.<\/p>\n
Rangers starting pitcher Colby Lewis (4-3, 5.10 ERA) tallied a 12-4 road victory over the\u00a0 Detroit Tigers in his last trip to the mound\u2014allowing two runs and five hits over 5.2 innings of work.\u00a0 The right-hander is 3-0 with a 2.86 ERA in four road efforts, with opposing hitters batting .279 against him.\u00a0 In his last six interleague road starts, Lewis has put together a 5-1 record and 2.00 ERA.<\/p>\n
Washington has dropped six of its last seven games, including an 8-5 setback to the Miami Marlins as -143 home favorites Wednesday, while going OVER the betting total of 7.5.\u00a0 The Nationals really need outfielder Jayson Werth to get things going offensively, as he\u2019s 6 for his last 28 at the plate.\u00a0 Offensively, the squad is hitting just .127 with runners in scoring position in its last sevens, with Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman continuing to sit out with injuries.\u00a0 Washington is 8-13 versus teams with a winning record.<\/p>\n
Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg has watched the club drop his last three efforts, with the offensive scoring just six runs over that span.\u00a0 The right-hander is 3-1 with a 2.35 ERA in six home outings\u2014issuing 10 walks and striking out 48 batters in 38.1 combined frames.\u00a0 Strasburg has tallied a 2-1 record and 1.80 ERA in four career interleague home starts.<\/p>\n
Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 5-2-1 in the last eight meetings in this series.<\/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 (28-26) and Washington Nationals (25-27) will meet up in a interleague matchup Friday night at Nationals Park, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m. ET Texas Rangers vs. Washington Nationals\u00a0 Texas is 6-2 on its current road trip, as it comes off a 5-4 win over the Minnesota Twins as +113 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[2605,25,2104,925,771,850],"class_list":["post-34157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-colby-lewis","tag-mlb","tag-nationals-park","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-texas-rangers","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34157","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=34157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34158,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34157\/revisions\/34158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}