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<\/a>Texas earned a 7-2 victory in Saturday\u2019s American League Championship Series Game 2 versus the Yankees to even up the series at a game apiece.\u00a0 The Rangers are highly confident that they can gain control of the series tonight with another win.\u00a0 \u201cAny time we have Cliff Lee on the mound, we\u2019re pretty confident,\u201d\u00a0 second baseman Ian Kinsler stated.\u00a0 The team will have to break a five-game postseason losing streak in the Bronx to do it and losing all three games at the stadium in 2010.\u00a0 Texas should have confidence in knowing they were the first team in history to win three road games in any 5-game series, whether LDS or LCS, in either league.\u00a0 Offensively, the club has homered in each of the team\u2019s first seven games this postseason, which happens to be longer than any Texas homer streak in the regular season.\u00a0 The squad is an even 42-42 on the road this season and the total is 35-47 Over\/Under.<\/p>\n
Rangers starting pitcher Cliff Lee was a combined 12-9 with a 3.18 ERA in 28 regular season starts with his current team and the Mariners this season and went 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA in the ALDS versus Tampa Bay.\u00a0 He recorded 21 strikeouts in the two starts and didn\u2019t issue a single walk.\u00a0 Lee will be pitching in his fifth different postseason series and he has tallied a 4-0 record and 0.55 ERA in his first start in the other four series.\u00a0 Including the regular season and postseason, the southpaw has won five straight starts in the Bronx, going 5-0 with a 1.67 ERA.\u00a0 He has won all three starts at the current Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n
New York has posted a 23-6 series record when winning the first game of a postseason series and the club is 217-142-1 all-time in the playoffs.\u00a0 The Yankees streak of scoring at least five runs in eight straight playoff games was snapped with Saturday\u2019s defeat, as it was the second-longest streak all-time behind only Baltimore\u2019s nine-game stretch in 1970-71.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to note that the club\u2019s 10-game postseason winning streak over the Rangers was also ended.\u00a0 New York has won all three games when opposed by a left-handed starter this postseason after losing its final nine regular season games against southpaws.\u00a0 The team is 10-8 this season when playing after a day off and 34-27 overall versus left-handers.<\/p>\n
Yankees starting pitcher Andy Pettitte produced an 11-3 record and 3.28 ERA in 21 starts during the regular season and captured a 5-2 win in the ALDS over the Twins.\u00a0 He allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings of work in that contest at Target Field.\u00a0 The left-hander posted a 7-3 mark and 3.89 ERA in 12 home starts, issuing 23 walks and collecting 44 strikeouts in 69.1 frames.\u00a0 In 23 career regular season starts versus the Rangers, Pettitte has a winning 11-9 record and 5.24 ERA, including a 1-0 mark and 2.25 ERA in one start this season.\u00a0 He is 19-9 with a 3.87 ERA in his postseason career over 256 innings.<\/p>\n
Bettors will be interested in playing the Rangers due to their 6-0 mark on the road, but the team is 1-4 in Lee\u2019s last five starts as a favorite of -110 to -150.\u00a0 New York is 8-1 in its last nine home playoff games and 89-41 in Pettitte\u2019s last 130 home outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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