Cincinnati Reds (23-21, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (24-21, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Andrew Abbott (2-2, 4.47 ERA, 1.51 WHIP, 33 strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (0-5, 4.17 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 45 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Guardians -135, Reds +113; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians host the Cincinnati Reds trying to continue a three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
Cleveland has a 13-9 record at home and a 24-21 record overall. The Guardians have a 9-4 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati is 23-21 overall and 10-10 on the road. The Reds have a 13-5 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n
The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brayan Rocchio has five doubles and three home runs for the Guardians. Angel Martinez is 9 for 37 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Elly De La Cruz has 10 doubles and 10 home runs for the Reds. JJ Bleday is 12 for 38 with two doubles, a triple, four home runs and 15 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .205 batting average, 3.20 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n
Reds: 3-7, .244 batting average, 5.03 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 15-Day IL (groin), Gabriel Arias: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Andrew Walters: 15-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n
Reds: Rhett Lowder: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Eugenio Suarez: 10-Day IL (oblique), Brandon Williamson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Emilio Pagan: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Hunter Greene: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds (23-21, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (24-21, first in the AL Central) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[2001,10986,6197,5,12054,6199,9097,50,135,51,2565,1177,1105,92,1383,538,2102,1952,4,256,6967,10630,185,777],"class_list":["post-699457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-andrew-abbott","tag-andrew-walters","tag-angel-martinez","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-caleb-ferguson","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-guardians","tag-hunter-greene","tag-jj-bleday","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-rhett-lowder","tag-shawn-armstrong","tag-sports","tag-tanner-bibee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116577718990329839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699457","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=699457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}