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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (12-14, third in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (14-11, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Bailey Ober (2-0, 4.15 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 24 strikeouts); Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (1-2, 5.00 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 18 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -134, Twins +113; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins will look to stop a three-game road losing streak when they visit the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 14-11 record overall and a 6-4 record in home games. The Rays are 12-3 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 12-14 overall and 5-8 in road games. The Twins have hit 32 total home runs to rank ninth in the majors.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The Rays hold a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero<\/a> leads the Rays with eight home runs while slugging .540. Jonathan Aranda<\/a> is 8 for 29 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Josh Bell<\/a> has five doubles and three home runs for the Twins. Byron Buxton<\/a> is 12 for 46 with a double and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 6-4, .249 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 3-7, .243 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Jake Fraley<\/a>: day-to-day (leg), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (calf), Joe Boyle<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mason Englert: 15-Day IL (forearm), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Twins: David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cody Laweryson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Mick Abel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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 (12-14, third in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (14-11, second in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,2223,43253,3916,6925,75686,1180,12626,307,3541,4682,19,1095,7908,5158,60,4,1997,297,1956,5720,4274,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-682344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cody-laweryson","tag-david-festa","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-fraley","tag-joe-boyle","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-josh-bell","tag-junior-caminero","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-rays","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116464425609369573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682344","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=682344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}