San Francisco at Texas

Texas has dropped six straight and hasn't led a game in 40 innings, including last night's 5-1 loss to this same San Francisco club, so the losing streak is the obvious argument against backing the Rangers again. But look at who did the damage: Logan Webb, a proven arm working on a career mark near 1.44 against Texas. Tonight the Giants hand the ball to Blade Tidwell, making his first big-league start of the season after San Francisco's trade-deadline teardown pushed him up from Triple-A along with three other fresh arms. MacKenzie Gore takes the mound for Texas instead, an established strikeout starter with real swing-and-miss stuff even with a 4.77 ERA this season. Ezequiel Duran already showed signs of the Texas offense waking up with four hits last night, and this is a far softer look on the mound than the one that just shut the Rangers down. Texas is the right side tonight.