Rangers vs Nationals Prediction
The Texas Rangers will play the Washington Nationals in Game 3 of their series on Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park in Washington, DC.
Rangers Preview
The Texas Rangers are 52-38 this season and they have lost five of their last seven games. Texas won the first game in this series by a score of 7-2 on Friday night. The Texas pitching staff has a 3.97 ERA, a 1.21 WHIP, and a .238 opponent batting average this season. The Rangers offense has scored 529 runs with a .274 batting average and a .342 on base percentage. Adolis Garcia is batting .262 with 23 home runs and 73 RBI’s for the Rangers. The projected starting pitcher for Texas is Dane Dunning, who is 8-1 with a 2.61 ERA and a 1.10 WHIP over 86.1 innings pitched this year.
Nationals Preview
The Washington Nationals are 35-54 this season and they have lost five of their last six games. Washington won Game 2 in this series by a score of 8-3 on Saturday afternoon. The Washington pitching staff has a 4.79 ERA, a 1.48 WHIP, and a .271 opponent batting average. The Nationals offense has scored 366 runs with a .260 batting average and a .317 on base percentage this year. Lane Thomas is batting .304 with 14 home runs and 48 RBI’s for the Nationals. The projected starting pitcher for Washington is Patrick Corbin, who is 5-10 with a 5.13 ERA and a 1.59 WHIP over 101.2 innings pitched this season.
Trends
Texas is 10-4 in their last 14 Sunday games and 5-2 in their last 7 interleague games. The under is 5-2-2 in Texas’ last 9 road games. Washington is 16-38 in their last 54 home games and 1-5 in their last 6 games. The under is 5-3 in Washington’s last 8 home games. The under is 5-1 in these two teams last 6 head to head meetings in Washington.
Pick
The Nationals were able to pull off the upset in Game 2 of this series on Saturday and they snapped their losing streak in the process. Washington will go for the series win here and they are starting Patrick Corbin, who has allowed six earned runs or more in two of his last three starts. Texas is starting Dane Dunning, who has allowed two earned runs or fewer in four straight starts. I like the Rangers to get back on track in this game and I am taking them to win by at least two runs.
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