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Seattle Mariners<\/a> (19-22, third in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (16-25, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Monday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: George Kirby<\/a> (4-2, 2.94 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 39 strikeouts); Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (2-2, 2.42 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mariners -146, Astros +122; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros host the Seattle Mariners to begin a four-game series.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 9-10 record in home games and a 16-25 record overall. The Astros have gone 8-3 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 19-22 record overall and a 7-11 record in road games. Mariners pitchers have a collective 3.79 ERA, which ranks fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The Mariners are up 4-0 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with a .318 batting average, and has 10 doubles, 13 home runs, 24 walks and 29 RBIs. Yainer Diaz<\/a> is 10 for 30 with a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Randy Arozarena<\/a> has nine doubles, a triple and three home runs for the Mariners. Josh Naylor<\/a> is 14 for 40 with two doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 5-5, .245 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Mariners: 4-6, .211 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 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

Mariners: Will Wilson: 10-Day IL (thumb), Victor Robles<\/a>: 10-Day IL (pectoral), Gabe Speier<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder inflammation), Cal Raleigh: day-to-day (undisclosed), Patrick Wisdom: 10-Day IL (oblique), Matt Brash<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Bryce Miller<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm), Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Miles Mastrobuoni: 60-Day IL (calf)<\/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":"Seattle Mariners (19-22, third in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros (16-25, fifth in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,3616,13576,1996,3225,4990,75686,11216,465,1432,54,1328,452,5828,1109,94,19,620,2053,4,10195,1456,766,619,65,3235,7986,5355,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-696011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-seattle-mariners","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-bennett-sousa","9":"tag-brandon-walter","10":"tag-bryce-miller","11":"tag-carlos-correa","12":"tag-carlos-vargas","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-gabe-speier","15":"tag-george-kirby","16":"tag-hayden-wesneski","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-hunter-brown","19":"tag-jake-meyers","20":"tag-jeremy-pena","21":"tag-josh-hader","22":"tag-josh-naylor","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-mariners","25":"tag-matt-brash","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-peter-lambert","28":"tag-randy-arozarena","29":"tag-ronel-blanco","30":"tag-seattle","31":"tag-seattle-mariners","32":"tag-seattlemariners","33":"tag-victor-robles","34":"tag-yainer-diaz","35":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116555411887003459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696011","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=696011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}