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Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (11-8, first in the NL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (11-8, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Brandon Williamson<\/a> (1-1, 5.28 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Twins: Joe Ryan<\/a> (2-1, 3.80 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 22 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -181, Reds +150; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins host the Cincinnati Reds on Friday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has an 11-8 record overall and a 7-3 record in home games. The Twins have the ninth-best team on-base percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .333.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has an 11-8 record overall and a 5-2 record on the road. The Reds have the seventh-best team ERA in the majors at 3.61.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Bell<\/a> has five doubles and three home runs for the Twins. Byron Buxton<\/a> is 12 for 42 with two doubles, three home runs and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sal Stewart<\/a> leads the Reds with a .303 batting average, and has four doubles, seven home runs, 13 walks and 17 RBIs. Elly De La Cruz<\/a> is 11 for 38 with three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 8-2, .267 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Reds: 5-5, .191 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Cody Laweryson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Royce Lewis: 10-Day IL (knee), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Reds: Jose Trevino: 10-Day IL (back), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/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":"Cincinnati Reds (11-8, first in the NL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (11-8, first 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":[2400],"tags":[5,12054,2223,535,50,4259,43253,3916,1177,75686,2102,1455,3541,19,60,4,1997,536,6513],"class_list":{"0":"post-677470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brandon-williamson","10":"tag-byron-buxton","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-reds","13":"tag-cincinnatireds","14":"tag-cody-laweryson","15":"tag-david-festa","16":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","17":"tag-event_preview","18":"tag-hunter-greene","19":"tag-joe-ryan","20":"tag-josh-bell","21":"tag-major-league-baseball","22":"tag-minnesota-twins","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-pablo-lopez","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-sal-stewart"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116419056372348997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677470","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=677470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677470\/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=677470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}