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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (11-11, third in the AL Central) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (7-15, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a> (0-3, 6.10 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, 11 strikeouts); Mets: Nolan McLean<\/a> (1-1, 2.28 ERA, 0.76 WHIP, 28 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -185, Twins +153; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets enter a matchup against the Minnesota Twins after losing 11 straight games.<\/p>\n

New York has a 7-15 record overall and a 3-6 record in home games. The Mets have a 2-8 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has an 11-11 record overall and a 4-5 record in road games. The Twins have a 7-2 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Francisco Alvarez<\/a> has a double, four home runs and five RBIs while hitting .268 for the Mets. Francisco Lindor<\/a> is 11 for 41 with a double and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Josh Bell<\/a> leads the Twins with eight extra base hits (five doubles and three home runs). Byron Buxton<\/a> is 13 for 43 with a double, three home runs and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 0-10, .200 batting average, 5.60 ERA, outscored by 38 runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 5-5, .241 batting average, 4.00 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Jared Young<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Gerber: 15-Day IL (finger), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist)<\/p>\n

Twins: Mick Abel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Laweryson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Royce Lewis: 10-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Minnesota Twins (11-11, third in the AL Central) vs. New York Mets (7-15, fifth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,2223,43253,3916,75686,1347,227,15622,120,3541,134,25115,19,101,5158,60,4,1690,61,2548,4203,2517,1997,3478],"class_list":{"0":"post-680317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-byron-buxton","10":"tag-cody-laweryson","11":"tag-david-festa","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-francisco-alvarez","14":"tag-francisco-lindor","15":"tag-jared-young","16":"tag-jorge-polanco","17":"tag-josh-bell","18":"tag-juan-soto","19":"tag-justin-hagenman","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-mets","22":"tag-mick-abel","23":"tag-minnesota-twins","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-new-york","26":"tag-new-york-mets","27":"tag-newyork","28":"tag-newyorkmets","29":"tag-nolan-mclean","30":"tag-pablo-lopez","31":"tag-simeon-woods-richardson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116442662627744088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680317","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=680317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680317\/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=680317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}