Seattle Mariners (28-20, first in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros (25-24, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n
Houston; Thursday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: George Kirby (0-0); Astros: Lance McCullers (0-1, 7.88 ERA, 2.12 WHIP, six strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Mariners -137, Astros +115; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros open a four-game series at home against the Seattle Mariners on Thursday.<\/p>\n Houston has a 15-9 record in home games and a 25-24 record overall. The Astros have the seventh-best team ERA in the majors at 3.49.<\/p>\n Seattle has gone 15-9 on the road and 28-20 overall. The Mariners have an 11-5 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n Thursday’s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Isaac Paredes has 10 home runs, 29 walks and 28 RBIs while hitting .270 for the Astros. Jeremy Pena is 12 for 35 with a double, a home run and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Cal Raleigh leads the Mariners with 16 home runs while slugging .584. Julio Rodriguez is 9 for 41 with a double, three home runs and 11 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 5-5, .234 batting average, 3.65 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n Mariners: 6-4, .198 batting average, 3.16 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Astros: Hayden Wesneski: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yordan Alvarez: 10-Day IL (hand), Spencer Arrighetti: 15-Day IL (thumb), Luis Garcia: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (elbow), J.P. France: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Taylor Trammell: 10-Day IL (calf), Pedro Leon: 10-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Mariners: Bryce Miller: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trent Thornton: 15-Day IL (stomach), Luke Raley: 10-Day IL (side), Gregory Santos: 60-Day IL (knee), Logan Gilbert: 15-Day IL (forearm), Victor Robles: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Bliss: 60-Day IL (biceps), George Kirby: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Kowar: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners (28-20, first in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros (25-24, second in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,1996,3297,6175,465,351,1432,139,54,3211,893,11305,7983,5828,3992,5175,466,2098,1505,4,3918,65,4678,9356,7985,7986,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-45878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bryce-miller","11":"tag-cal-raleigh","12":"tag-cristian-javier","13":"tag-george-kirby","14":"tag-gregory-santos","15":"tag-hayden-wesneski","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-houstonastros","19":"tag-isaac-paredes","20":"tag-j-p-france","21":"tag-jackson-kowar","22":"tag-jeremy-pena","23":"tag-julio-rodriguez","24":"tag-lance-mccullers","25":"tag-logan-gilbert","26":"tag-luis-garcia","27":"tag-luke-raley","28":"tag-mlb","29":"tag-ryan-bliss","30":"tag-seattle-mariners","31":"tag-spencer-arrighetti","32":"tag-taylor-trammell","33":"tag-trent-thornton","34":"tag-victor-robles","35":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114550777070058038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}