Buy Razor Ray’s MLB Picks Today!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nIn their last games the A’s beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 and the Rangers beat the Detroit Tigers 11-8.<\/p>\n
On the season the A’s have an Over\/Under record of 29-16 and they have a run-line W\/L record of 24-21 and the Rangers have an Over\/Under record of 16-26 and a run-line W\/L record of 22-22.<\/p>\n
This season the Rangers are 14-5 at home and the A’s are 10-12 on the road.<\/p>\n
The Rangers have beaten the A’s in 13 of their last 18 home games.<\/p>\n
Bartolo Colon (3-2 4.56 ERA) gets the start for the A’s tonight and in his last outing he gave up 3 earned runs in 6 innings of work in a no-decision facing the Rangers.<\/p>\n
Josh Lindblum (0-0 0.00 ERA) is making his first Major League start and debut for the Rangers tonight. [dfads params=’groups=10&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n
Before their recent sweep of the Kansas City Royals the A’s had lost 8 of their last 10 games. They have lost 12 of their last 16 road games.<\/p>\n
Before the Kansas City series the A’s were swept by the Rangers at home.<\/p>\n
Texas’ Adrian Beltre is swinging a hot bat hitting .500 with 2 HR and 9 RBI in his last 8 games. He is batting .317 with 5 HR against Colon.<\/p>\n
The Rangers have won 6 of their last 7 home games.<\/p>\n
The A’s have been getting clutch hitting this season, as they rank 9th in runs scored, but only 25th in team batting average.<\/p>\n
Colon has his work cut out for him tonight facing a Texas team that ranks 5th in the Majors in runs, 2nd in team batting average, and 4th in on base percentage.<\/p>\n
In some betting trends for this AL West match up the A’s are 1-6 in their last 7 road games, 10-4 in Colon’s last 14 starts, and they have an Under record of 4-0 in their last 4 games.<\/p>\n
The Rangers are 6-1 in their last 7 home games, 8-1 in their last 9 vs. a team with a winning record, and they have an Under record of 7-2 in their last 9 home games.<\/p>\n
Jason’s Pick:<\/strong> I have to go with the A’s in this one, as I think Colon will have a good start and the Oakland offense will get to the Rangers’ rookie pitcher.<\/p>\nView The MLB Cappers Leaderboard For 2013 – Picks Packages Are On Sale! \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics vs Rangers Baseball Odds The A’s (23-22) have gotten over a tough stretch and they have won 3 straight games. However, while they are in 2nd place in the AL West they still trail the Rangers (29-15) by 6.5 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":35497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[59069,449,450,11787,3775,691,59070,47130],"class_list":["post-62385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-athletics-vs-rangers","tag-free-baseball-picks","tag-free-baseball-predictions","tag-mlb-baseball-lines","tag-mlb-odds","tag-mlb-predictions","tag-oakland-athletics-vs-texas-rangers","tag-oakland-vs-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108040,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385\/revisions\/108040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}