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Rangers look for fourth straight win vs. lowly White Sox

Aug 29, 2007 - 2:17 PM Chi White Sox (57-75) at Texas (59-72) 8:35 pm EDT

ARLINGTON, Texas (Ticker) - The Texas Rangers are pretty bad. Luckily for them, the Chicago White Sox are worse.

Kameron Loe takes the mound as the Rangers look for their fourth straight win in the second game of a three-game series with the White Sox on Wednesday.

Chicago loaded the bases with no one out in the eighth inning of a tie game on Tuesday, but failed to score. Marlon Byrd then delivered a go-ahead single for Texas in a 4-3 win. The White Sox have lost 14 of 17. They were outscored 46-7 in a weekend series sweep at the hands of the Boston Red Sox, and have the second-worst record in the American League.

Loe (6-10, 5.53 ERA), who has just one win in his last seven starts, will try and take advantage of a team with the majors' worst average with runners in scoring position (.244). In his last start, Loe yielded seven runs - three earned - and 10 hits in 5 2/3 of a 9-4 loss to Seattle.

Loe will be opposed by Jon Garland (8-10, 4.90 ERA), who is winless in his last five starts. Garland allowed six runs and nine hits in seven innings of an 11-3 loss to Boston on Friday.