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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (4-7, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (5-6, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (1-0, 0.75 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Twins: Bailey Ober (0-0, 6.75 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, five strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -156, Twins +131; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers travel to the Minnesota Twins looking to end a six-game road slide.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 3-2 record at home and a 5-6 record overall. The Twins have a 5-2 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Detroit has a 4-7 record overall and a 2-6 record in road games. The Tigers have a 0-1 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Wednesday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Bell<\/a> has four doubles and two home runs for the Twins. Matt Wallner<\/a> is 10 for 43 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Gleyber Torres<\/a> has a home run and an RBI while hitting .205 for the Tigers. Colt Keith<\/a> is 12 for 34 with five doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 5-5, .215 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 3-7, .223 batting average, 4.33 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip inflammation), Trey Sweeney: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers (4-7, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (5-6, third in the AL Central) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[29375,5,2259,1964,3916,147,53,2583,75686,79,95,713,3541,388,19,1251,60,4,1997,768,594,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-669923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-bailey-horn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-beau-brieske","11":"tag-colt-keith","12":"tag-david-festa","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-detroittigers","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-framber-valdez","18":"tag-gleyber-torres","19":"tag-jackson-jobe","20":"tag-josh-bell","21":"tag-justin-verlander","22":"tag-major-league-baseball","23":"tag-matt-wallner","24":"tag-minnesota-twins","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-pablo-lopez","27":"tag-reese-olson","28":"tag-tigers","29":"tag-troy-melton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116368221661421630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669923","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=669923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}