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#965/966 UNDER 7.5 Texas Rangers (Heaney) at Oakland Athletics (Wood) 8:40 PM CT

Oakland played a pair of high scoring games with Miami over the weekend to skew the recent scoring averages both for and against the Athletics. Nine of the team’s last 13 games have featured a final score totaling seven or fewer runs, however. Both Oakland and Texas have marginal scoring and batting results vs. left-handers this season while the recent bullpen results have been excellent with a 3.14 bullpen ERA for Texas in the past 10 gamers and a 2.77 ERA for Oakland. Alex Wood owns an inflated 6.32 ERA this season, but he has allowed four or fewer runs in six straight starts since a terrible first outing back in late March. Andrew Heaney owns a 0-4 record, but he has also pitched better than his numbers suggest and has allowed three or fewer runs in four of his six starts. Texas hasn’t yet found the same offensive rhythm that the team had in the postseason last fall, now having scored four or fewer runs in seven of the team’s last 10 games. Both of these AL West teams have leaned to the ‘under’ for the season and when these teams met for three games in April, only 16 total runs were scored combined.