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Oakland Athletics (59-43) at Texas Rangers (42-60) RHP Edwin Jackson (1-2, 2.93) vs. LHP Martin Pérez (2-4, 8.05) Game #103 • Home #53 (20-32) • Wed., July 25, 2018 • Globe Life Park in Arlington • 7:05 p.m. (CDT) • FSSW / 105.3 FM / 1270 AM RANGERS AT A GLANCE WINS AND LOSSES: Texas fell to the A’s last night, 13-10 in JOEY GALLO has homered in 7 of his last 16 games started 10 innings, and club has a 1-4 record on this 2nd ‘half’ open- dating back to 6/29, tied for most in the A.L. and 3rd-most Overall ..............................42-60 ing 7-day, 7-game homestand against CLE (1-2) and OAK (0- in MLB over that span (STL’s Matt Carpenter-10; SD’s Wil 2)…team has dropped 6 of 7, 9 of 11, and 12 of 14…at 4-14 Myers-8)...Gallo’s 25 home runs overall are T5th in the A.L. Home ................................20-32 Road .................................22-28 (.222), Texas has the lowest win pct. in MLB this month… • According to baseball-reference.com, Gallo is the 9th bat- TEX has more losses this month (4-14) than in entire month ter in Texas history with multiple 25-HR seasons before his Standing .............. 5th, -24.5 GB of June (14-11)…the 4 wins this month have come against age 25 season (age as of 6/30)...Gallo joins Rougned Odor DET (2), BAL (1), and CLE (1), and 2 of the 4 wins have been (2016-17), Hank Blalock (2003-05), and Mark Teixeira (2003- Homestand ...........................1-4 SHO…team still has a 15-16 record beginning 6/16. 04) as the only Rangers to accomplish the feat since 1994. One-Run ...........................10-13 • At 42-60 (.412), Rangers rank 12th in A.L. in winning pct… 2-Run ..................................7-12 the 42 wins are the fewest for Texas after 102 games since ELVIS ANDRUS hit his 1st career grand slam and matched 2014 (40-62) and 2nd fewest in last 16 seasons (beg. 2004). a career best with 5 RBI last night...the 5 RBI match a sin- HR ....................................33-38 No HR.................................9-22 • Texas has been under the .500 mark since a season best gle-game high for a Texas batter this season, joining Jurick- 1-1 on 3/30…team is season-high 18 games under .500… son Profar (6/6 vs. OAK) and Nomar Mazara (5/3 vs. BOS)... White ..................................8-18 this is just 7th season in TEX history to be 18+ under as early Andrus has hit safely in 6 straight at .409/.462/.727/1.189 (9- w/ Blue ..............................6-13 as 7/24 (last 2014, 38-56 on 7/12)…club lost a season high 22) with 2 HR and 7 RBI, matching his 2nd-longest hit streak w/ Red ................................2-5 7 straight games from 6/7-15 and directly followed that with a of the season (9 G, 6/25-7/5). Gray ....................................6-13 Alt. Blue ............................23-25 2018 best 7 consecutive wins from 6/16-23. Blue Home ....................... 8-11 ELVIS WITH THE BASES LOADED: Last night’s grand slam Blue Road ......................15-15 SERIES STUFF: Texas will need to win each of the final 2 G pushed Andrus’ career average with the bases loaded to .336 Alt. Red (all home) ...............4-3 of this series to avoid a 4th straight series loss...Rangers are (40-119), 5th-highest in team history (min. 60 PA)...the only Throwback ............................1-0 0-4-1 in last 5 series after having won a season-best 5 con- higher averages in Rangers history belong to Rusty Greer Last 5 Games .......................1-4 secutive series from 6/15-7/1…team is still 6-3-1 in last 10 (.418, 33-79), Mitch Moreland (.359, 23-64), Pudge Rodri- Last 10 Games .....................2-8 series in Arlington, only losses in that span to the Astros (0-4 guez (.351, 47-134), and Michael Young (.338, 47-139)...An- from 6/7-10; 0-2 from 7/3-4) and Indians (1-2 from 7/20-22). drus had been 0-for-his-last-5 with the bases loaded dating Come From Behind Wins ...... 16 Losses After Lead ................. 22 back to last season before the home run. IN THE STANDINGS: Texas is a season-high 24.5 GB of di- Score First ........................29-20 vision-leading HOU, the 2nd-earliest date ever for Rangers ROUGNED ODOR has an extra-base hit in a season-high Opp. Score First ...............13-40 to have a 24.5-game deficit (6/5 in 2001) and just the 10th 3 straight games, and a team-high 8 extra-base hits in the season overall in club history to have a deficit so large...club month of July...Odor is now batting .349/.425/.571/.996 (22- Columns below listed in a Home/Road/Total format has gained ground on just 2 total days in July (once on an 63) in the month of July, posting the 9th-highest average in off day)…only other season with a 24+ game deficit in last the A.L. vs. AL West ..... 5-18/9-10/14-28 16 seasons (beg. 2004) was 2014…club has lost 8.0 games vs. AL Central ...... 7-6/9-8/16-14 in the standings over the last 21 days…current deficit is SHIN-SOO CHOO had a single and walk last night, and has vs. AL East ............ 4-6/4-8/8-14 Interleague .............. 4-2/0-2/4-4 2nd-largest in the majors…club has been in 5th place in the now reached safely in 55 of his last 56 games dating back A.L. West for the last 106 days and in either 4th or 5th place to 5/13...Choo has posted .322/.458/.559/1.018 slash line Series ..........6-9-1/4-8-4/10-17-5 for 116 of 117 days (T2nd following win on 3/30). during the 56-G stretch, ranking among the ML leaders over Series Openers.......5-12/6-10/11-22 that span in OBP (2nd-Mike Trout leads at .459), walks (3rd, Series Finales ..........8-8/5-11/13-19 Rubber Games ........ 4-1/1-5/5-6 AT HOME: Texas is 20-32 (.385) in Arlington this season, 51), and OPS (8th)...he has been on base 121 times since 3rd-lowest home win pct. in A.L. and 4th-lowest in MLB… 5/13, 2nd-most in the majors to Trout (124). Lead after 6 ....... 15-5/16-1/31-6 team has gone 1-7 in 8 home games in July, a span which Lead after 7 ....... 15-3/19-1/34-4 was preceded by a 6-1 stretch in Arlington from 6/16-6/30… CORY GEARRIN has logged 6.1 scoreless innings in his 1st Lead after 8 ....... 17-1/18-0/35-1 team is 7-8 in last 15 at home, this after a 5-G losing skid 6 outings with the club since he was acquired in a trade with Trail after 6 ........ 3-22/3-24/6-46 from 6/7-15, and are 13-15 in last 28 G after opening year San Francisco on 7/8...over that span, Gearrin has retired 19 Trail after 7 ........ 1-26/2-24/3-50 at 5-15…overall 20-32 record matches slowest 52-G start at of 23 BF...including his last 7 outings with the Giants, Gearrin Trail after 8 ........ 1-26/1-27/2-53 home in TEX history (also 2014)...team was 20-33 after 53 has compiled an 11.2-inning scoreless streak dating back to G in 2014. 6/11, tied for the 9th-longest active scoreless streak in the Tied after 6 .............. 2-5/3-3/5-8 Tied after 7 .............. 4-3/1-3/5-6 majors. Tied after 8 .............. 2-5/3-1/5-6 THE SWINGIN’ A’S: The Rangers are 5-7 vs. OAK in ‘18, losing 2 straight to the Athletics...TEX has still won 3 of 5 SUMMER SLAMS: Texas has 3 grand slams this season, Decided 7th/later.......6-10/9-6/15-16 and is 4-4 in last 8 G vs. A’s...Rangers have gone 23-22 vs. including 2 within the last 6 games (Elvis Andrus last night Shutouts ........................... 1-0/2-5/3-5 Decided final AB .....5-7/5-5/10-12 OAK beginning 6/14/16…Texas was 8-11 against Oakland in vs. OAK and Ronald Guzmán on 7/15 at BAL)...the 3 grand Walk-off games ....................3-2 2017, and Rangers have lost season series vs. A’s in 4 of slams already match the club’s 2nd-most in a season since last 6 seasons…Rangers went 7-3 vs. the A’s at home last the start of 2012 (5 in 2016)...each of the team’s last 3 slams ALL-TIME HOME RUN LIST season, and have won 14 of last 23 meetings in Arlington… had come on the road, as Andrus’ slam last night was the Rank HR Player 30 475 Stan Musial Texas leads all-time series 366-358, and holds leads of 194- club’s 1st in Arlington since Ryan Rua on 4/26/17...Andrus 475 Willie Stargell 170 in Arlington and 106-103 at Globe Life Park…this is the also hit the 1st grand slam by a Texas shortstop since Mi- 32 473 Carlos Delgado 3rd straight series between the clubs to be played at Globe chael Young on 9/16/07 at OAK...a TEX shortstop had not hit 33 468 Chipper Jones Life Park, as each of final 2 meetings will be at the Coliseum a grand slam at Globe Life Park since Young on 9/21/04 vs.