{"id":700325,"date":"2026-05-16T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/700325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:57:16","slug":"reds-bring-1-0-series-lead-over-guardians-into-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/700325\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds bring 1-0 series lead over Guardians into game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (24-21, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (24-22, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Saturday, 6:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Chris Paddack<\/a> (0-5, 7.63 ERA, 1.66 WHIP, 27 strikeouts); Guardians: Joey Cantillo (3-1, 2.98 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 41 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -178, Reds +149; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 24-22 overall and 13-10 in home games. The Guardians rank 10th in the AL with 43 total home runs, averaging 0.9 per game.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has an 11-10 record on the road and a 24-21 record overall. The Reds are fourth in the majors with 59 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams play Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> has a .286 batting average to lead the Guardians, and has 10 doubles, a triple and six home runs. Angel Martinez<\/a> is 10 for 39 with two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Spencer Steer<\/a> has seven doubles, seven home runs and 15 RBIs for the Reds. JJ Bleday<\/a> is 14 for 38 with four doubles, a triple and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .213 batting average, 3.36 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Reds: 4-6, .246 batting average, 5.09 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 15-Day IL (groin), Gabriel Arias<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Andrew Walters<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n

Reds: Rhett Lowder: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Eugenio Suarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Hunter Greene<\/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":"Cincinnati Reds (24-21, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (24-22, first in the AL Central) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[10986,6197,5,12054,22912,752,50,135,51,2565,1105,92,75686,1383,538,2102,1952,19,4,6288],"class_list":["post-700325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-andrew-walters","tag-angel-martinez","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-chase-delauter","tag-chris-paddack","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-guardians","tag-hunter-greene","tag-jj-bleday","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-spencer-steer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116583428506779151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700325","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=700325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}