Seattle Mariners to visit the Texas Rangers

Seattle Mariners (55-48, third in AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (36-66, fifth in AL West)

Arlington, Texas; Friday, 8:05 p.m. EDT

PITCHING LIKELIHOODS: Navigators: TBD Rangers: Kolby Allard (2-8, 4.71 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 67 strikeouts)

FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rangers +100, Mariners -120; Over / Under is 8 1/2 runs

BOTTOM LINE: Texas and Seattle play on Friday.

The Rangers are 23-26 in home games in 2020. Texas slug .369 as a unit. Adolis Garcia leads the team with a .486 slugging percentage, including 35 extra base hits and 22 home runs.

The Mariners are 22-25. Seattle has shot down .381 this season. Mitch Haniger leads the club with a .501 slugging percentage, including 44 extra base hits and 25 home runs.

The Mariners won the last meeting 4-1. Chris Flexen took his seventh win and Luis Torrens went 1-2 for Seattle with a home run and three RBIs. Mike Foltynewicz recorded his eighth loss for Texas.

TOP PERFORMER: Garcia leads the Rangers with 35 additional base hits and beats .254.

JP Crawford leads the Mariners with 103 hits and has 31 RBIs.

LAST 10 MATCHES: Rangers: 1-9, .159 batting average, 6.53 ERA, exceeded by 40 runs

Mariners: 6-4, 0.225 batting average, 5.46 ERA, beaten by four runs

INJURIES: Rangers: Hunter Wood: (elbow), Jose Leclerc: (elbow), Jonathan Hernandez: (elbow), Kyle Cody: (right shoulder), Matt Bush: (elbow), Kohei Arihara: (fingers), Willie Calhoun: (Forearm), Ronald Guzman: (knee).

Seafarers: Justus Sheffield: (not known), James Paxton: (left forearm), Ljay Newsome: (elbow), Andres Munoz: (elbow), Nick Margevicius: (shoulder), Ken Giles: (elbow), Justin Dunn: ( Shoulder.)), Kyle Lewis: (knee), Sam Haggerty: (shoulder), Jake Fraley: (illness), Evan White: (hip).

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The Associated Press created this story with the technology of Data Skrive and data from Sports Radar.