The Texas Rangers will look to move a step closer to a spot in the wild-card race when they face the rival Houston Astros on Saturday night in the second game of a three-game American League West series in Arlington, Texas.

The game will feature a battle of ace right-handers, with Hunter Brown (10-7, 2.34 ERA) starting for the Astros against Jacob deGrom (11-6, 2.69).

The Rangers took the first game of the series 4-3 in 12 innings on Friday when Dustin Harris, who had been called up from Triple-A Round Rock earlier on Friday, singled home the winning run.

The victory allowed the Rangers (73-69) to pull within four games of first-place Houston (77-65) in the AL West and to within a half-game of Seattle in the wild-card race with 20 games to play.

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