Rockies vs Rangers Preview – MLB Odds
On the season the Rockies have an Over/Under record of 23-11 and a run-line W/L record of 24-12 and the Rangers have an Over/Under record of 18-14 and a run-line W/L record of 12-22.
On the season the Rockies have an Over/Under record of 23-11 and a run-line W/L record of 24-12 and the Rangers have an Over/Under record of 18-14 and a run-line W/L record of 12-22.
This is a rare home and home in interleague play. The Rockies certainly took care of business in Colorado winning both games with by a combined score of 20-3.
On the season the Rangers have an Over/Under record of 15-12 and a run-line W/L record of 10-18 and the Angels have an Over/Under record of 18-9 and a run-line W/L record of 17-10.
Oakland has played the last 10 games against teams from the state of Texas and the result have not been good.
The Rangers just swept Oakland and thus will be heading into Seattle in first place in the AL West with an AL leading 14 victories. Texas is red hot right now having won 8 of 9 starting with the final three of their last set with the Mariners.
Texas Rangers (14-8) vs. Seattle Mariners (8-13)
Friday April 25
Safeco Field – Seattle, WA
10:10PM
Probable Pitchers
TEX: Robbie Ross (L)
SEA: Roenis Elias (L)
Moneyline: Seattle -106, Texas -102
Total: 7.5
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Other than Martin Perez’ current scoreless streak nothing is really standing out with the Rangers right now other than they are doing it without a number of key contributors. Jurickson Profar and Adrian Beltre are on the DL and Shin-Soo Choo is questionable for Friday.
Texas has been getting very good starting pitching and that includes the starts from Robbie Ross, who doesn’t look like he will be returning to the pen anytime soon.
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Ross has a 2.31 ERA in the young season and a big reason are the 7 shutout innings he threw against the Mariners in his lone win on the season.
Only once in 4 starts has he given up more than 2ER and this time will take on Seattle in pitcher friendly Safeco.
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While Texas has been soaring the Mariners have been sinking.
They had lost 8 games in a row before ending their slide with a series closing win against Houston. If they had lost that one it would have been the Mariners not the Astros in last place. However, it is still relatively early and thankfully for Seattle their pitching has been solid.
It is the offense that is the problem. Robinson Cano is hitting below expectations at .280 and others are well off what you would expected. Kyle Seager is batting .179, ouch.
Rookie Roenis Elias has been better than expected this season.
He is giving up a few too many walks but is keeping the balling in the park and not giving up a ton of hits. His lone win on the season was against the Rangers in a game in which he gave up just one run over 6 innings.
It was the deepest he has gone in any start this season – he needs to start giving them some more innings or else they are going to burn out their bullpen.
Both of these starters have had success against their opponents recently. Since we are still writing the book on both I think we can expect a low scoring game. I see no reason to back the home side and given the way both teams are playing the value on Texas is better than expected.
It is the smart play.
Total prediction: Under
Score prediction: Texas 4 – Seattle 3
This is a big early series between Texas and Oakland the Rangers struck first with a victory Monday night. Yu Darvish was not as dominant as he has been to start the season but he kept the team in it and let a bullpen that gave up only one his over the final three innings win it.
On the season the Mariners have an Over/Under record of 6-7 and a run-line W/L record of 8-5 and the Rangers have an Over/Under record of 5-9 and a run-line W/L record of 4-10.
This little AL West tilt has some intriguing individuals to investigate. Interestingly, the intrigue includes others than just Seattle free-agent investment Robbie Cano.
The Texas Rangers will travel to the Sunshine State on Friday to open a three-game series against Tampa Bay, which lost two straight to Toronto after winning their Opening Day game behind pitcher David Price.
Philadelphia could not close the deal on A.J. Burnett’s first start as a Phillie last night as the bullpen gave up two runs in the later innings in the loss. In this game offense was much harder to come by as the Phillies were held to just 8 hits.
Philly got the opening day win but they can not be pleased with the way Cliff Lee got knocked around. Looking more at the positive side the offense exploded with 14 runs and everyone got into the action.
The Cincinnati Reds have a nice record and a solid lead on that second Wild Card spot but they are slipping in the National League Central. They used to be neck and neck with Pittsburgh but the Pirates have raced ahead of late, zooming to the top of the league standings.
The Texas Rangers drew first blood in this series between former World Series combatants (2011). Texas took the first game and if they keep winning they might use this series to reclaim first place in the American League West. Not exactly a true measure of revenge but better than nothing.
The Detroit Tigers find themselves in first place in the American League Central heading into this one, but just barely after losing the final game of their series against the Houston Astros. Now they travel to Texas to take on the division leading Rangers.
For the second year in a row the Rangers lineup was poached by their division foe Anaheim Angels. Last year it was CJ Wilson and this year it was Josh Hamilton.
While the Rangers are coming off a loss they are still 7-3 in their last 10 games and have the biggest AL division lead, as they are 5.5 games up on the Oakland A’s in the AL West. The Rays are also 7-2 in their last games, but they have lost 2 straight.