The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays will proceed the best-of-three American League Wild Card Series with Game 2 at Tropicana Field on Wednesday afternoon. Jordan Montgomery pitched Texas to an authoritative Game 1 win Tuesday they usually now have two possibilities to punch their price tag to the ALDS. The Rays performed an overly sloppy sport in Game 1 and feature to wash issues up.
You can view the overall postseason agenda via clicking right here, and this is the 2023 playoff bracket. Now, let’s get to the essential stuff for Game 2.
How to watch Game 2
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 4 |Â Time: 3:08 p.m. ET
Location: Tropicana Field (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
TV channel: ABC | Live movement: fubo (take a look at without cost)
Starting pitchers:Â RHP Nathan Eovaldi (12-5, 3.63 ERA) vs. RHP Zach Eflin (16-8, 3.50 ERA)
Odds: TEX +135 | TB -160 | O/U: 8
Preview
Thanks to uncharacteristically sloppy Rays protection and Montgomery’s excellence, the Rangers are one win clear of the ALDS. Texas is heading into unsure territory with its pitching now regardless that. Eovaldi has now not thrown greater than 5 innings in a sport since coming back from an elbow damage remaining month and the bullpen can also be very shaky. Tampa had an unpleasant sport throughout in Game 1. They have to wash up a couple of issues — protection, offensive execution, and so forth. — to make this a chain. They performed an overly careless sport in Game 1. Do that once more and they are going to be despatched house Wednesday.
Prediction
The Rays don’t seem to be going to move two and out once more within the Wild Card Series for the second one directly 12 months, are they? I say no. I believe they power a Game 3 with a decent Game 2 win Wednesday. Pick: Rays 2, Rangers 1