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Miami Marlins<\/a> (20-25, fourth in the NL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (29-14, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Sandy Alcantara<\/a> (3-2, 3.90 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 39 strikeouts); Rays: Nick Martinez<\/a> (4-1, 1.70 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -143, Marlins +120; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays take on the Miami Marlins after Cedric Mullins<\/a> had four hits against the Marlins on Friday.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 29-14 record overall and a 15-4 record in home games. The Rays have the top team on-base percentage in the AL at .331.<\/p>\n

Miami is 20-25 overall and 6-13 in road games. Marlins hitters have a collective .319 on-base percentage, the eighth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Jonathan Aranda<\/a> has five doubles, eight home runs and 33 RBIs for the Rays. Ryan Vilade<\/a> is 5 for 25 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Liam Hicks<\/a> leads the Marlins with nine home runs while slugging .507. Otto Lopez<\/a> is 13 for 39 with three doubles, a home run and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 8-2, .290 batting average, 2.50 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 4-6, .211 batting average, 5.59 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Joe Boyle<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Steven Matz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Marlins: Robby Snelling: 15-Day IL (elbow), Griffin Conine: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/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":"Miami Marlins (20-25, fourth in the NL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (29-14, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[24644,5,77,6925,75686,12626,307,7728,19,1095,58,7908,4,761,1753,297,7729,1956,18332,3480,1555,4274,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-700329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-adam-mazur","tag-baseball","tag-cedric-mullins","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-joe-boyle","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-liam-hicks","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-miami-marlins","tag-michael-grove","tag-mlb","tag-nick-martinez","tag-otto-lopez","tag-rays","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-ryan-vilade","tag-sandy-alcantara","tag-steven-matz","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116583463912482561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700329","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=700329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700329\/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=700329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}