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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (14-12, second in the AL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (16-9, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (2-1, 3.30 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 20 strikeouts); Reds: Andrew Abbott<\/a> (0-2, 5.84 ERA, 1.74 WHIP, 15 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -135, Reds +114; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds host the Detroit Tigers on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 16-9 overall and 6-6 at home. The Reds have a 5-1 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 4-10 in road games and 14-12 overall. The Tigers have the 10th-best team ERA in MLB<\/a> play at 3.65.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Sal Stewart<\/a> has eight home runs, 15 walks and 23 RBIs while hitting .297 for the Reds. Elly De La Cruz<\/a> is 11 for 43 with two doubles, four home runs and 11 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has a .319 batting average to lead the Tigers, and has 10 doubles, two triples and a home run. Riley Greene<\/a> is 11 for 30 with a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 7-3, .204 batting average, 3.30 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 7-3, .256 batting average, 3.64 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 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

Tigers: Bailey Horn: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Zach McKinstry: 10-Day IL (hip\/abdominal), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), 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 (14-12, second in the AL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds (16-9, second in the NL Central) Cincinnati;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2400],"tags":[2001,5,2259,535,50,4259,53,1177,75686,79,2102,713,388,4140,19,4,536,768,624,6513,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-681993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-andrew-abbott","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-beau-brieske","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-reds","13":"tag-cincinnatireds","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-framber-valdez","18":"tag-hunter-greene","19":"tag-jackson-jobe","20":"tag-justin-verlander","21":"tag-kevin-mcgonigle","22":"tag-major-league-baseball","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-reds","25":"tag-reese-olson","26":"tag-riley-greene","27":"tag-sal-stewart","28":"tag-troy-melton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116459147535844382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681993","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=681993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681993\/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=681993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}