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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (30-43, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (34-41, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Wednesday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Casey Mize<\/a> (0-0); Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (5-4, 3.47 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 53 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -175, Tigers +143; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Houston Astros and the Detroit Tigers are looking for a series win with a victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 34-41 record overall and a 17-20 record at home. The Astros have gone 16-36 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Detroit has a 12-27 record on the road and a 30-43 record overall. Tigers pitchers have a collective 3.91 ERA, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has 14 doubles and 24 home runs for the Astros. Christian Walker is 9 for 39 with three doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> leads the Tigers with 32 extra base hits (14 doubles, two triples and 16 home runs). Colt Keith<\/a> is 7 for 30 with a triple, four home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 5-5, .226 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 5-5, .230 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Lance McCullers<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), LaMonte Wade<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nick Allen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), 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 (side), Colt Keith: day-to-day (wrist), 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 (30-43, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (34-41, 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":[42,29375,5,3616,13576,3225,399,1964,53,1390,75686,1432,139,54,3211,84,713,1329,388,6464,1484,19,4,2270,10195,768,766,2264],"class_list":["post-728172","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-casey-mize","tag-colt-keith","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","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-peter-lambert","tag-reese-olson","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116764634268159687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728172","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=728172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728172\/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=728172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}