Game Notes For Saturday
* Texas has won 6 of the last 7 meetings with the Sox, outhomering them 17-5.
*The Rangers have 17 homers in their last 11 games. They also had an American League-leading streak of 14 straight games with a homer earlier in the year.
*Only Ryan Howard of the Phillies has hit more homers (14) since April 25 than Jermaine Dye (13).
*Brad Wilkerson and Tadahito Iguchi have one thing in common - they make the most of getting on base. The two are 1-2 in the majors at runs per time on base. Wilkerson is at .580 and Iguchi is at .563.
*Vicente Padilla is tough on right-handers (.175), but hasn't had the same success agains left-handed bats (.339).