Athletics starter JP Sears owns a 6.99 ERA over his last 12 starts, allowing 16 homers in that span. Look for the Rangers, who are have won seven of nine, to stay hot against Sears. Texas is only 1.5 games out of a playoff spot. The Rangers' Patrick Corbin sports a 2.16 ERA this month and should excel against an Athletics' offense that has put up exactly two runs in three straight games, all losses.

Bruce Bochy isn't missing this chance to take advantage of the A's, whose free-swinging lineup has barely made a peep the past two nights in a pair of losses. Texas can draw a bit closer in the AL wild card chase tonight behind a rejuvenated Patrick Corbin, who is enjoying having some real big-league defense behind him after laboring the past few years in Washington. Keeping his ERA beneath 4 this season, Corbin has also seen the Rangers win his last three starts in which he's posted a 2.16 ERA. Meanwhile the A's continue to flounder, and recent efforts by Wednesday starter JP Sears (nine runs and ten hits across 9 IP his last two starts) are not encouraging. Play Rangers on Money Line