Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Drew Rasmussen will put his scoreless innings streak on the road Tuesday when he takes the mound for his staff’s opener of a three-game collection in opposition to the visiting Texas Rangers.
Rasmussen (4-4, 2.33 ERA) prolonged his profitable streak to a few video games and scoreless run to 18 innings after permitting only a leadoff single within the first of Tampa Bay’s 5-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins final Wednesday. He has yielded simply 9 hits mixed throughout his final three begins.
“He was fairly dominant (versus the Twins),” Rays supervisor Kevin Money stated of Rasmussen. “… He is actually executing pitches at a really excessive stage over his final handful of begins.”
Rasmussen, 29, permitted one run on three hits in a no-decision in opposition to Texas on April 6. He’s 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA in two profession conferences with the Rangers.
Like Rasmussen, Texas right-hander Tyler Mahle (5-2, 1.64) is coming off a efficiency by which he tossed six scoreless innings.
Mahle, who allowed 4 hits in a no-decision in opposition to the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday, will get the beginning because the Rangers open a nine-game street journey.
He additionally recorded a scoreless outing in his lone profession begin versus Tampa Bay, yielding only one hit and hanging out 5 batters over 5 innings on April 4.
Mahle will encounter a Tampa Bay offense that has been cold and hot over the previous 4 video games.
The Rays erupted for 13 runs within the opener of their four-game collection in opposition to the Houston Astros on Thursday, solely to muster only one on three hits within the rematch. Tampa Bay reignited the offense with 16 runs on a season-high 18 hits — together with 5 homers — on Saturday, solely to be restricted to 2 hits in a 1-0 shutout loss the next day.
Brandon Lowe noticed his career-high 13-game hitting streak come to a halt in Sunday’s setback. The loss was simply the third within the final 12 video games for the Rays.
The Rangers, in flip, have answered a season-high six-game shedding skid by alternating wins and losses over their final seven. They secured an 8-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday, marking Texas’ first collection win since Might 12-14 when it swept the woeful Colorado Rockies.
Josh Smith matched his career-high RBI complete on Sunday with 4 after belting a two-run double within the second inning and a two-run homer within the eighth. Smith, who additionally notched a double to guide off the primary inning, had simply 4 extra-base hits in your entire month of Might.
Marcus Semien reached base 4 instances for a Rangers offense that’s batting simply .223 on the season. Texas leads simply the Chicago White Sox (.221) and Rockies (.217) in that regard heading into Monday’s video games.
“We wish to be a whole offense,” Semien stated, per the Dallas Morning Information. “We’ve guys who can run, we’ve guys who can bunt. We all the time speak about guys with energy, but it surely does not seem to be the ball is carrying as a lot (at residence), so we have got to determine methods to attain.”
–Area Degree Media