Rangers vs Yankees Odds: Home Cooking to End Slump?

Texas Continues to Hold Off Astros, Angels in AL West Race

When the MLB schedule was released, those looking at the series between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees would have predicted that the Yankees would be the team sitting on top of their division. The Rangers vs Yankees Odds show that the Yankees are favored in the season opener.

When looking at the MLB pitching matchups, keep an eye on Jon Gray as he starts for the Rangers on Saturday with Yankees’ ace Gerrit Cole set to go on Sunday.

The Yankees are 23-15 at home and lead the majors with 66 home runs at home. The Rangers are tied for the second-most road wins in the American League and have the fourth-best team batting average away from home.

The Rangers (+1000) are fifth in the odds to win the MLB World Series with the Yankees coming in sixth at +1400 in the championship odds.

Probable Pitching Matchups

• Friday: Dane Dunning (Rangers) vs Clarke Schmidt (Yankees)
• Saturday: Jon Gray (Rangers) vs Luis Severino (Yankees)
• Sunday: Andrew Heaney (Rangers) vs Gerrit Cole (Yankees)

Rangers Flexing Their Muscles

The Rangers have been leading the majors in batting average with runners in scoring position for most of the season. Recently, they have been delivering whether there are people on base or the bases are empty.

Texas has 14 doubles and 10 home runs over the last seven games. Corey Seager leads the way with six extra-base hits. Jonah Heim has homered three times to go with eight RBIs in the last week, outfielder Leoday Taveras and rookie third baseman Josh Jung have two home runs each as the Rangers have a .455 slugging percentage over the last seven games.

For as impressive as some of those offensive numbers are, the visiting Rangers are still considered to be the underdog according to the Rangers vs Yankees Odds.

The total has gone under in four of the last six games for the Rangers.

Yankees Coming Up Empty

One has to wonder where the Yankees would be without journeyman Billy McKinney.

While some of the higher-profile teammates are struggling mightily, McKinney has two of the Yankees’ six home runs over the last five games. He is batting .316. Anthony Rizzo is hitting .300 after breaking out of a prolonged slump. However, Giancarlo Stanton and Josh Donaldson are a combined 3-for-36 over the last six games. Even with those numbers, the Yankees are favored according to the Rangers vs Yankees Odds.

The Yankees won the first two games of the series with Seattle thanks to their pitching before it unraveled in a 10-2 loss at home to the Mariners on Thursday.

Four of the Yankees’ last five games finished under the total.

Who’s Hot

• Joe Barlow, Texas Rangers P: Barlow has allowed four hits and no runs with four strikeouts in 4.1 innings in his last five games.
• Ezequiel Duran, Texas Rangers IF: Duran is hitting .450 with three extra-base hits and four runs in his last five games.
• Nick Ramirez, New York Yankees P: Ramirez has allowed one run and struck out eight batters over seven innings in his last six appearances.
• Gleyber Torres, New York Yankees 2B: Torres is batting .261 with three extra-base hits over his last six games.

Who’s Not

• Grant Anderson, Texas Rangers P: Anderson has blown two saves and has a 5.79 ERA in his last seven games.
• Mitch Garver, Texas Rangers C: Garver is 1-for-10 with five strikeouts in his last three games.
• Michael King, New York Yankees P: King has surrendered eight hits and seven runs in his last 6.1 innings of work.
• Giancarlo Stanton, New York Yankees OF: Stanton is 0-fr14 with eight strikeouts in his last four games.

Rangers vs Yankees Injury Update

Second baseman Brad Miller is on the injured list for the Rangers with an oblique issue.

For the Rangers vs Yankees matchup, Judge continues to be sidelined with a toe injury. Fellow outfielders Greg Allen and Willie Calhoun are also on the injured list. Nestor Cortes is one of many Yankees pitchers on the injured list.

Rangers vs Yankees Betting Preview

When these teams are on, balls can start flying out of any stadium in the majors. Speaking of stadiums, keep an eye on the weather with thunderstorms possible around the start of the series opener.

The injuries to starting pitching is making the degree of difficulty for both MLB teams rather high.

Buffalo isn’t exactly within a shadow of New York City, but Rangers catcher and Buffalo native Jonah Heim is the only New York product on the Texas roster.

The Yankees are 27-19 as the favorite so far this season. The Rangers are 13-12 as the underdog.

The Yankees have struggled to cover against the MLB odds at home, going 19-21 against the spread. The Rangers are 23-14 ATS on the road with 19 of the 37 road games finishing over the total.

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