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(Sports Network) - Veteran lefty Kenny Rogers looks for his second straight win after three season-opening losses today when the Detroit Tigers host the Texas Rangers in game two of a three-game series at Comerica Park.

Rogers, who turned 43 in November, is 6-3 in 15 lifetime appearances - 14 starts - against the Rangers, posting a 3.80 earned run average and 54 strikeouts in 90 innings of work.

He's pitched for the Rangers in three stints during a 20-season big-league career, reaching the majors with them in 1989, returning in 2000 and coming back again in 2004, when he won a career-high 18 games.

This season, the Savannah, Georgia. native opened with three losses, but rebounded with a victory at Toronto on April 18, allowing three hits and four runs in 6 2/3 innings of the Tigers' 8-4 triumph.

Mexican right-hander Luis Mendoza makes his ninth career appearance and sixth career start for the Rangers.

A 24-year-old native of Veracruz, Mendoza was tagged for five hits and seven runs in three innings of an April 18 start at Fenway Park, dropping an 11-3 decision to the Boston Red Sox.

He lost his initial start of 2008 as well, allowing eight hits and an earned run in five innings while dropping a 4-1 verdict to Toronto.

Mendoza reached the majors last season and was 1-0 in six appearances - three starts - with a 2.25 ERA in 16 innings.

On Tuesday, Ramon Santiago hit a two-run home run and finished 2-for-3 with three RBI, as Detroit crushed the Rangers, 10-2. Edgar Renteria ended 4-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Tigers, who have won two in a row.

Justin Verlander (1-3) got the win by going six innings and giving up only one run on six hits.

Josh Hamilton and Frank Catalanotto each drove in a run for Texas, which has dropped five in a row.

Vicente Padilla (2-2) absorbed the loss after yielding seven runs on eight hits in three frames.

On the injury front, the Tigers could have outfielder Curtis Granderson back in the lineup tonight. Granderson has been on the disabled list all season because of a broken bone in his right hand. The original plan was to activate him for tonight's game, but Granderson left last night's rehab game with Class A West Michigan with tightness in his legs. He will be re-evaluated today.

Detroit won five of its nine meetings a year ago with the Rangers and holds a 15-11 edge in the series since the start of the 2005 campaign. However, Texas has won seven of its last 13 in the Motor City.