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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (39-33, second in the AL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (43-26, first in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Milwaukee; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Slade Cecconi (3-5, 4.83 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Brewers: Robert Gasser<\/a> (0-3, 6.38 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -155, Guardians +126; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers host the Cleveland Guardians to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has a 43-26 record overall and a 23-14 record at home. The Brewers have the fourth-best team ERA in the majors at 3.45.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 20-16 record on the road and a 39-33 record overall. The Guardians have the third-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.75.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Bauers<\/a> leads the Brewers with 13 home runs while slugging .519. Jackson Chourio<\/a> is 19 for 49 with seven home runs and 14 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brayan Rocchio<\/a> has nine doubles, two triples and five home runs while hitting .274 for the Guardians. Jose Ramirez<\/a> is 10 for 39 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Brewers: 6-4, .303 batting average, 5.38 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 4-6, .220 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Brewers: Coleman Crow: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jared Koenig<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), Brandon Lockridge<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Logan Henderson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Brian Fitzpatrick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Quinn Priester: 60-Day IL (wrist), D.L. Hall: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Rob Zastryzny: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Angel Zerpa: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Jose Ramirez: 10-Day IL (hand), Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (rib cage), Angel Martinez: day-to-day (foot), 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 (39-33, second in the AL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (43-26, first in the NL Central) Milwaukee;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,868,127,60253,14963,135,51,2565,75686,538,3875,4364,7881,10679,19,59,4,12052],"class_list":["post-727297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lockridge","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-carlos-rodriguez","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jake-bauers","tag-jared-koenig","tag-logan-henderson","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-robert-gasser"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116758983701511111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727297","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=727297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727297\/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=727297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}