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Houston Astros<\/a> (16-24, fourth in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (21-19, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Kai-Wei Teng<\/a> (1-2, 2.35 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Reds: Andrew Abbott<\/a> (1-2, 5.13 ERA, 1.64 WHIP, 28 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Reds -124, Astros +104; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 11-9 in home games and 21-19 overall. The Reds have hit 52 total home runs to rank third in the majors.<\/p>\n

Houston has gone 7-14 in road games and 16-24 overall. Astros hitters have a collective .436 slugging percentage to rank fourth in the majors.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Elly De La Cruz<\/a> leads the Reds with 18 extra base hits (eight doubles and 10 home runs). JJ Bleday<\/a> is 8 for 35 with two doubles, three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Christian Walker has nine doubles, nine home runs and 27 RBIs while hitting .288 for the Astros. Isaac Paredes<\/a> is 12 for 35 with three doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 2-8, .210 batting average, 6.64 ERA, outscored by 33 runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 5-5, .265 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Rhett Lowder: day-to-day (shoulder), Eugenio Suarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Astros: Hunter Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Yainer Diaz: 10-Day IL (abdominal), Joey Loperfido: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Jake Meyers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Taylor Trammell: 10-Day IL (groin), Tatsuya Imai: 15-Day IL (arm), Jeremy Pena<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josh Hader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (biceps), Hayden Wesneski<\/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":"Houston Astros (16-24, fourth in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds (21-19, fifth 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":[2391],"tags":[2001,537,5,3616,13576,12054,3225,50,1177,1105,92,75686,1432,54,1328,2102,893,452,5828,1952,1109,37588,19,4,3226,766],"class_list":{"0":"post-695143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-andrew-abbott","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-bennett-sousa","12":"tag-brandon-walter","13":"tag-brandon-williamson","14":"tag-carlos-correa","15":"tag-cincinnati-reds","16":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","17":"tag-emilio-pagan","18":"tag-eugenio-suarez","19":"tag-event_preview","20":"tag-hayden-wesneski","21":"tag-houston-astros","22":"tag-hunter-brown","23":"tag-hunter-greene","24":"tag-isaac-paredes","25":"tag-jake-meyers","26":"tag-jeremy-pena","27":"tag-jj-bleday","28":"tag-josh-hader","29":"tag-kai-wei-teng","30":"tag-major-league-baseball","31":"tag-mlb","32":"tag-mlb-athletics","33":"tag-ronel-blanco"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116549761360972910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695143","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=695143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695143\/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=695143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}