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Kelly

Kelly gave up seven hits, walked none and struck out four. The 36-year-old right-hander has quietly been hit hard lately with 26 hits and 12 runs allowed in his last three starts. Kelly has a 3.52 ERA and 167/48 K/BB ratio in 184 innings this year. He’s lined up to face the Guardians on the road in the last weekend of the regular season.

Two hits and a sacrifice fly brought one run in to score for the Astros in the first inning. Kelly gave up a second run on two hits and a groundout in the third. Houston strung together five straight hits to chase Kelly from the game in the fourth without recording an out. The 36-year-old right-hander will look to bounce back when he takes a 3.46 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, and a 163/48 K/BB ratio across 179 2/3 innings into a start against the Twins in Texas next Tuesday.

Kelly gave up two homers to start the top of the first and 10 more hard-hit balls afterwards, but the Brewers couldn’t come through with big hits when they needed them, which is just something that seems to often happen when Kelly is on the mound. Kelly is 3-1 with a 3.19 ERA in eight starts for the Rangers and 12-7 with a 3.21 ERA overall. He’ll face the Astros next week.

Kelly gave up five hits, walked one and struck out seven. The 36-year-old right-hander has allowed more than two runs only three times in 12 starts since the beginning of July. Kelly has a 3.16 ERA and 156/47 K/BB ratio in 171 innings this year. He’s lined up to face the Brewers at home next week.

Kelly has pitched extremely well since arriving in Texas at last month’s trade deadline, compiling a strong 3.31 ERA across 35 1/3 innings (six starts). He was staked to an early three-run cushion and wound up getting over a touchdown worth of run support to cruise to an easy win, his second with the Rangers. He struck out two and didn’t hand out a free pass. He was burned by the long ball in this one as solo homers from Lawrence Butler and Brent Rooker accounted for most of the damage against him as he worked into the seventh inning for the second straight outing. He’ll face a tougher test against the Astros on Friday.

Kelly gave up four hits, walked two and struck out eight. The 36-year-old right-hander has allowed two runs or less in eight of his last nine starts. Kelly has a 3.20 ERA and 147/46 K/BB ratio in 157 2/3 innings this year. He’s lined up to face the Athletics on the road next weekend.

The 36-year-old right-hander struck out three batters on the night and didn’t issue a walk. The only two hits that he allowed also happened to leave the ballpark as Vinnie Pasquantino belted a solo shot in the first inning and Mike Yastrzemski tagged him for a solo shot in the sixth. Kelly got six swings and misses on 71 pitches in the ballgame, posting a CSW of 30 percent. He’ll look to get back in the win column as he lugs a 3.35 ERA, 1.06 WHIP and a 139/44 K/BB ratio (150 2/3 innings) into Sunday’s matchup against the Guardians.

Kelly was in line for the win until the ninth, when the D-backs scored four times. He struck out five and walked one for his 14th quality start in 25 turns this season. He’s due to make his next start in Kansas City.

Kelly gave up five hits, walked five and struck out four. The 36-year-old right-hander didn’t fare well in a tough matchup against the Phillies. Kelly walked five batters and allowed two home runs. He has a 3.38 ERA and 131/43 K/BB ratio in 138 2/3 innings this year. Kelly is lined up to face the Diamondbacks at home next week.

Kelly breezed through his first five innings, and needed just 69 pitches on the evening — 48 of those landing for strikes. He was borderline dominant over those frames, but then he gave up a run on a balk and an RBI single to Julio Rodriguez to prevent him from winning his debut. Still, there was a lot of positives to take from this outing, and Texas has to be impressed with what they saw. Fantasy managers, too. He’ll face the Phillies on Friday.