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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (30-42, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (33-41, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (3-5, 4.40 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Astros: Hunter Brown<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -156, Tigers +127; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers play the Houston Astros after Colt Keith hit three home runs on Monday in a 9-3 win over the Astros.<\/p>\n

Houston has gone 16-20 in home games and 33-41 overall. The Astros have a 16-36 record in games when they have given up at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 30-42 overall and 12-26 in road games. Tigers pitchers have a collective 3.95 ERA, which ranks 10th in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 24 home runs while slugging .653. Christian Walker is 9 for 39 with three doubles, a triple, two home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> leads the Tigers with 16 home runs while slugging .533. Gleyber Torres<\/a> is 13 for 37 with four doubles, a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 5-5, .222 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 6-4, .249 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by 24 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: Gleyber Torres: day-to-day (undisclosed), Jack Flaherty<\/a>: 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 (30-42, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (33-41, 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":[42,29375,5,3616,13576,3225,53,1390,75686,79,95,1432,139,54,3211,1328,84,713,1329,388,6464,1484,19,4,2270,768,766,2264],"class_list":["post-727292","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-framber-valdez","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-hunter-brown","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-justin-verlander","tag-lamonte-wade-jr","tag-lance-mccullers-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nick-allen","tag-reese-olson","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116758936513064660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727292","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=727292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727292\/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=727292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}