{"id":724780,"date":"2026-06-13T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:34:09","slug":"guardians-play-the-tigers-leading-series-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724780\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians play the Tigers leading series 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Tigers<\/a> (29-41, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (38-33, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Tarik Skubal<\/a> (0-0); Guardians: Joey Cantillo (4-3, 4.57 ERA, 1.51 WHIP, 63 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -153, Guardians +128; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians bring a 1-0 lead into the latest game of the series against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has gone 18-17 in home games and 38-33 overall. The Guardians have the fourth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.79.<\/p>\n

Detroit has an 11-25 record on the road and a 29-41 record overall. The Tigers have the ninth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .316.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Guardians are ahead 5-0 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Angel Martinez<\/a> leads the Guardians with 11 home runs while slugging .444. Jose Ramirez<\/a> is 12 for 41 with three doubles, two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> leads the Tigers with 16 home runs while slugging .517. Gleyber Torres<\/a> is 12 for 36 with three doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 4-6, .224 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 7-3, .265 batting average, 3.54 ERA, outscored opponents by 29 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Erik Sabrowski<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gabriel Arias<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Jack Flaherty: day-to-day (leg), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (abductor), Javier Baez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Burch Smith: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Brant Hurter: 60-Day IL (back), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/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":"Detroit Tigers (29-41, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (38-33, second 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":[2386],"tags":[6197,29375,5,51,147,53,2583,1390,571,75686,1383,95,713,1329,865,388,19,4,768,382,594],"class_list":["post-724780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-angel-martinez","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-erik-sabrowski","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-justin-verlander","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-tigers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116742354632262008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724780","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=724780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724780\/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=724780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}