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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (29-42, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (33-40, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Monday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Troy Melton<\/a> (3-0, 2.81 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Astros: Kai-Wei Teng<\/a> (3-5, 3.71 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 49 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -130, Tigers +109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros host the Detroit Tigers to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Houston has gone 16-19 at home and 33-40 overall. The Astros have the fifth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .243.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 29-42 overall and 11-26 on the road. The Tigers have the eighth-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .390.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 37 extra base hits (13 doubles and 24 home runs). Isaac Paredes<\/a> is 7 for 34 with two doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> has 14 doubles, a triple, 16 home runs and 50 RBIs while hitting .254 for the Tigers. Gleyber Torres<\/a> is 14 for 40 with four doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 5-5, .224 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 6-4, .249 batting average, 2.86 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Lance McCullers<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Yainer Diaz: 10-Day IL (abdominal), Hunter Brown: 60-Day IL (shoulder), LaMonte Wade<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nick Allen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Braden Shewmake: 10-Day IL (groin), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Jack Flaherty: 15-Day IL (leg), Javier Baez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), 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 (29-42, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (33-40, fourth in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,29375,5,3616,13576,3225,53,1390,75686,95,1432,139,54,3211,893,713,1329,388,37588,6464,1484,19,4,2270,768,766,33608,2264],"class_list":["post-726496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-event_preview","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kai-wei-teng","tag-lamonte-wade-jr","tag-lance-mccullers-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nick-allen","tag-reese-olson","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-troy-melton","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116753698863535854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726496","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=726496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726496\/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=726496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}