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Houston Astros<\/a> (6-8, fourth in the AL West) vs. Seattle Mariners<\/a> (5-9, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Seattle; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Lance McCullers (1-0, 3.27 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 13 strikeouts); Mariners: Luis Castillo<\/a> (0-0, 2.79 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Mariners -147, Astros +123; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros will aim to stop their five-game road slide in a matchup with the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 5-9 record overall and a 4-4 record at home. The Mariners have hit 12 total home runs to rank sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 6-8 record overall and a 1-6 record in road games. Astros hitters have a collective .372 on-base percentage, the top percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Brendan Donovan<\/a> leads the Mariners with a .316 batting average, and has two doubles, three home runs, five walks and five RBIs. Cole Young<\/a> is 10 for 35 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has three doubles and five home runs for the Astros. Christian Walker is 13 for 40 with three doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mariners: 3-7, .183 batting average, 2.86 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 4-6, .285 batting average, 6.35 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mariners: Brendan Donovan: day-to-day (illness), Victor Robles<\/a>: 10-Day IL (pectoral), Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Miles Mastrobuoni: 10-Day IL (calf), Bryce Miller<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Astros: Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Meyers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Cristian Javier: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Brown: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Zach Dezenzo: 10-Day IL (elbow), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Josh Hader<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps)<\/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":"Houston Astros (6-8, fourth in the AL West) vs. Seattle Mariners (5-9, fifth in the AL West) Seattle;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,3616,13576,4492,1996,4990,12342,75686,1432,54,452,1109,331,19,620,4,766,619,65,3235,7986,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-673210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bennett-sousa","10":"tag-brandon-walter","11":"tag-brendan-donovan","12":"tag-bryce-miller","13":"tag-carlos-vargas","14":"tag-cole-young","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-hayden-wesneski","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-jake-meyers","19":"tag-josh-hader","20":"tag-luis-castillo","21":"tag-major-league-baseball","22":"tag-mariners","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-ronel-blanco","25":"tag-seattle","26":"tag-seattle-mariners","27":"tag-seattlemariners","28":"tag-victor-robles","29":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116385744150834774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673210","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=673210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673210\/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=673210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}