Indians vs Rangers MLB Live Stream Reddit for Thursday's Game
By Joey Mauceri
The Cleveland Indians (39-34) and Texas Rangers (39-35) will play the finale of their four game series on Thursday afternoon. The Indians will be looking to take the series after offensive outbursts in games two and three propelled them to a pair of crucial victories. The Rangers will try to split the series and not fall further behind in the AL Wild Card race.
How to Live Stream the Game
First pitch is slated for 2:05 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast on FSSW, STO, and MLB Network, live streaming will be available on the MLB streams subreddit.
Indians Lineup
It was 11:11 when we started typing this, and we were gonna say make a wish, but it's now 11:13, so that's a wash.
— Cleveland Indians (@Indians) June 20, 2019
Hope your day is going well.#RallyTogether pic.twitter.com/qop1GzfS1m
The Indians offense has been inconsistent so far this season, however the bats have gotten hot the last two games of the series against Texas. Cleveland has scored 10 runs in each of the last two games, and a big reason for that has been the hot bat of Jason Kipnis. Though Kipnis has struggled for much of the season, he has caught fire of late, with a pair of home runs including a three-run shot in the first inning of Wednesday's game.
Francisco Lindor is doing what superstars do and continuing to mash, a multi-hit game on Wednesday raised his season average to .298. Oscar Mercado has also turned heads as a multi-hit game of his own raised his average to .315. Breakout star Shane Bieber will be on the mound for Cleveland looking for his seventh victory.
Rangers Lineup
Raise your hand if you’re taking an extra long lunch break today! ?♀️?♂️ pic.twitter.com/dhAIcfs6Cy
— Texas Rangers (@Rangers) June 20, 2019
The Rangers have been one of the true surprise teams in baseball and they can thank their offense for that. Although they have scored just seven runs combined in the last two games, the team is still third in all of baseball in runs scored with 414.
Shin-Soo Choo is among the Rangers' sluggers having an excellent season, with 12 homers and a .896 OPS. Hunter Pence and Joey Gallo will be out of the Rangers lineup once again as they work their way back from injury. Nomar Mazara is also absent from the Rangers lineup, who has struggled of late with just a .333 slugging percentage in his last 15 games.
The resurgent Mike Minor will toe the rubber for Texas, who owns the fourth best ERA in the AL at 2.63.