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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (35-27, first in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (36-24, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Wednesday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Gavin Williams<\/a> (8-3, 3.07 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 88 strikeouts); Yankees: Gerrit Cole<\/a> (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.71 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -162, Guardians +136; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians face the New York Yankees leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

New York is 17-10 in home games and 36-24 overall. The Yankees have a 25-5 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has an 18-13 record in road games and a 35-27 record overall. The Guardians have the seventh-best team ERA in the majors at 3.75.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Aaron Judge<\/a> is second on the Yankees with 27 extra base hits (10 doubles and 17 home runs). Ryan McMahon<\/a> is 9 for 34 with a double, three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jose Ramirez<\/a> has 17 doubles and eight home runs while hitting .236 for the Guardians. Kyle Manzardo<\/a> is 7 for 30 with two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 6-4, .280 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored opponents by 24 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 5-5, .253 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Angel Chivilli: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Aaron Judge: day-to-day (rib), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Jasson Dominguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Max Fried<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Gabriel Arias<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Erik Sabrowski<\/a>: 15-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":"Cleveland Guardians (35-27, first in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees (36-24, second in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,5,1216,51,571,75686,1383,2078,2281,310,3289,865,1389,19,108,4,1690,62,2548,2547,1494,142],"class_list":["post-716125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-aaron-judge","tag-baseball","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-erik-sabrowski","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-gavin-williams","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-kyle-manzardo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-ryan-mcmahon","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116685503435286987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716125","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=716125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716125\/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=716125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}