{"id":681028,"date":"2026-04-22T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/681028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:40:31","slug":"guardians-and-astros-play-to-determine-series-winner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/681028\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians and Astros play to determine series winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (9-16, fifth in the AL West) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (14-11, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (0-1, 7.20 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (0-2, 4.81 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -139, Astros +117; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Cleveland Guardians and the Houston Astros are looking for a series win with a victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has an 8-4 record in home games and a 14-11 record overall. The Guardians have gone 8-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 2-10 record on the road and a 9-16 record overall. The Astros have a 5-14 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brayan Rocchio<\/a> leads the Guardians with a .284 batting average, and has three doubles, three home runs, 10 walks and 15 RBIs. Kyle Manzardo<\/a> is 12 for 37 with a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 18 extra base hits (eight doubles and 10 home runs). Isaac Paredes<\/a> is 8 for 35 with two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 5-5, .248 batting average, 5.11 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 3-7, .232 batting average, 5.42 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Gabriel Arias: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Andrew Walters<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n

Astros: Dustin Harris<\/a>: day-to-day (hand), Taylor Trammell: 10-Day IL (groin), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Zach Dezenzo: 10-Day IL (elbow), Cody Bolton: 15-Day IL (back), Jeremy Pena<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Joey Loperfido: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Brown: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Jake Meyers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Nick Allen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Tatsuya Imai: 15-Day IL (arm), Josh Hader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (biceps), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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 (9-16, fifth in the AL West) vs. Cleveland Guardians (14-11, first in the AL Central) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,3616,13576,135,51,2565,37403,75686,538,1432,54,893,452,5828,1109,19,4,2270,10195,766,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-681028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bennett-sousa","10":"tag-brandon-walter","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-guardians","13":"tag-clevelandguardians","14":"tag-dustin-harris","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-guardians","17":"tag-hayden-wesneski","18":"tag-houston-astros","19":"tag-isaac-paredes","20":"tag-jake-meyers","21":"tag-jeremy-pena","22":"tag-josh-hader","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-nick-allen","26":"tag-peter-lambert","27":"tag-ronel-blanco","28":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116448409858119948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681028","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=681028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681028\/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=681028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}