BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals host the Texas Rangers trying to continue a four-game home winning streak. Kansas City is 34-29 in home games and 64-61 overall. Royals pitchers have a collective 3.61 ERA, which ranks second in the AL.

Rangers have revived interest in Roma left-back Anass Salah-Eddine, with Spanish side Elche also keen on the 23-year-old. (Il Messaggero via Daily Record) Rangers have dismissed an approach from Lille to take striker Hamza Igamane on loan. (Rangers Review - subscription required)

Rangers are two games away from making it into the Champions League proper as they vie with Club Brugge for a place in the league phase of the competition. The two sides will contest a spot over two legs with the Scottish side having already progressed through the second and third qualifying rounds.

Mike Yastrzemski, Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia homered to power the Kansas City Royals past the Texas Rangers 4-3.

The Texas Rangers finished a six-game week against the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Toronto Blue Jays with a 2-4 record, three late-game meltdowns, two position players injured and one big bad blowout loss.

The Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers still have some work to do to make the playoffs, but if they get hot in the final month of the season, they'll be in th

Semien returned following a rare day off on Saturday due to right wrist soreness after he was hit by a pitch the previous night. He played through it in the opener, hitting a two-run homer in his final at-bat, but the swelling was too intense to overcome the following day, and Semien watched from the dugout as his team took a 14-2 loss.

The Rangers beat the first-place Toronto Blue Jays 10-4 Sunday afternoon at the Rogers Centre to stave off a sweep and end what had been a four-game losing streak. The win, only their fifth this month, was anchored by the team’s stars.

The Rangers had five hits through the first two innings tonight and all that amounted to was one run. By the time they scored again in the sixth inning, the score was 4-1 Kansas City. The Rangers also didn’t draw a walk, had one extra base hit all night, and ultimate didn’t do enough with their opportunities with runners on base.