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Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (35-39, fifth in the NL Central) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (46-28, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Saturday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Andrew Abbott<\/a> (4-4, 3.95 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 58 strikeouts); Yankees: Will Warren<\/a> (7-1, 3.47 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 76 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -200, Reds +162; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n

New York is 22-13 in home games and 46-28 overall. Yankees pitchers have a collective 3.31 ERA, which leads MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 16-20 in road games and 35-39 overall. Reds hitters have a collective .310 on-base percentage, the 10th-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

The teams play Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> has 15 doubles, two triples and 21 home runs while hitting .294 for the Yankees. Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> is 15 for 43 with four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Spencer Steer<\/a> has 12 doubles, 11 home runs and 28 RBIs for the Reds. Eugenio Suarez<\/a> is 9 for 40 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 8-2, .272 batting average, 3.50 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n

Reds: 4-6, .204 batting average, 3.73 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Austin Wells: 10-Day IL (cervical headaches), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Max Fried<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trent Grisham<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Aaron Judge: 10-Day IL (rib), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Reds: Elly De La Cruz<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Ke’Bryan Hayes: 10-Day IL (back), Pierce Johnson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Greene<\/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":"Cincinnati Reds (35-39, fifth in the NL Central) vs. New York Yankees (46-28, first in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[2001,5,731,12054,535,50,4259,1216,1177,1105,92,75686,310,2102,19,108,4,62,118,536,6288,122,772],"class_list":["post-730757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-andrew-abbott","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-event_preview","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-hunter-greene","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-reds","tag-spencer-steer","tag-trent-grisham","tag-will-warren"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116781538576266741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730757","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=730757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730757\/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=730757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}