Texas Adds Worley At Tonight

Baseball Betting Lines

Laynce Nix went 4-for-4 with a home run for the Nationals, but left the game with an Achilles injury and may not be able to play tonight. Washington fell a game under .500 at 40-41.

 

(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Texas Rangers try to continue their mastery of the Houston Astros this evening when the Lone Star State rivals resume a three- game set at Minute Maid Park. The Rangers have won four straight Silver Boot trophies, awarded annually to the victor in the interleague matchup between the two clubs each year. It hasn't been much of a rivalry, though, lately, as Texas took two of three from the Astros earlier in the year and has won the season series in each of the last two years by a 5-1 margin, while compiling a 13-3 mark against their in- state rivals since the start of the 2009 campaign.

 

Josh Hamilton and Mitch Moreland also blasted solo home runs while Yorvit Torrealba added an RBI double for the Rangers, who have won six of their past 10 contests overall.

 

Jordan Lyles (0-3) worked six innings in defeat for Houston, giving up five runs on 10 hits.

 

"It just didn't fall my way tonight," Lyles said. "I don't know what the ball- strike ratio was tonight, but it couldn't have been good."

 

Houston, meanwhile, will rely on veteran Brett Myers, who also received a no- decision against Lewis and the Rangers his last time out. Myers gave up two runs and six hits in six innings of that one. He is 3-6 on the year with a 4.65 ERA.

 

(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - When the Phillies signed Cliff Lee in the offseason, they envisioned him being part of a rotation of four aces that would carry them into October. After Lee did his part in Tuesday's opener of this highly-anticipated set with the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia turns to its wild card tonight in Vance Worley.

 

Philadelphia opened the season with a star-studded rotation of Lee, Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels, Roy Oswalt and Joe Blanton, but both Oswalt and Blanton are currently on the disabled list. That has given the young Worley a chance to start and he has responded with two solid outings since joining the rotation on June 18.

 

The Red Sox will be happy to face any other pitcher than Lee, who hurled his third straight shutout in last night's 5-0 Phillies victory. The former Cy Young Award winner took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and allowed two hits and two walks to finish June with a 5-0 mark and 0.21 ERA.

 

The 32-year-old also set a new career high in consecutive scoreless innings, extending it to 32, and became the first Phils hurler since Robin Roberts in 1950 to throw three straight shutouts.

comments

---

•    Prada Phone by LG 3.0 hits UK tomorrow via Phones 4u

  ---

•    When I'm asleep tonight my bank account is growing over night haha gotta love it ;)😝

  ---

•    When spring hits I'ma play soccer all day

  ---

•    When 2am hits im forcing myself to sleep

  ---

•    #np Mr.Big ft een - Go go Power Rangers

  ---

•    #itreallymakesmehappywhen i come home and my puppy is downstairs waiting for me, then as soon as i walk in the house, he runs upstairs

  ---

•    Kinda got adjusted to laying next to him at night in the bed.....guess I'm sleeping on the couch tonight

  ---

•    Couple month ago me and cammie lossman visit worley, id. It was nucleus and beginning...

  ---

•    Every now and then my Houston accent pops up lol it's funny

  ---

•    I probably shouldn't still be up, but theres a time and place for TV and chinese and its now and in my room.

  ---

---