Texas at Seattle

The Texas Rangers, after making their franchise debut in the World Series a year ago, are finding things more difficult this season as teams gun for the AL Champs. Seattle is hovering at a bit below .500 and is vastly improved over last years debacle that saw the M's fall prey to the loss column 101 times. The M's turn to Jason Vargas who has recorded six wins on the season, but five of those have come at home. Derek Holland has taken his lumps this year as he has allowed 3 runs or more in seven of his last nine starts, which has put his ERA over the stretch right on the 5 mark. He certainly hasn't taken advantage when facing losing teams on the road where the Rangers are 0-6 in his last six starts. The M's have done a nice job of bouncing-back off a poor offensive showing where they scored 2 or less, following by going 15-7. Play on Seattle in this one.