{"id":730776,"date":"2026-06-20T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/730776\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:12:17","slug":"astros-host-the-guardians-try-to-continue-home-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/730776\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros host the Guardians, try to continue home win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (40-36, second in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (36-41, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Joey Cantillo (5-3, 4.37 ERA, 1.49 WHIP, 67 strikeouts); Astros: Spencer Arrighetti<\/a> (7-2, 2.57 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 60 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -128, Guardians +106; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros will try to keep a three-game home win streak going when they take on the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 19-20 record in home games and a 36-41 record overall. The Astros have an 18-36 record in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 40-36 overall and 21-19 in road games. The Guardians have a 20-4 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Astros are up 3-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 24 home runs while slugging .637. Jeremy Pena<\/a> is 10 for 41 with three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Steven Kwan<\/a> has eight doubles, a home run and 13 RBIs while hitting .210 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: Astros: 6-4, .234 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 3-7, .207 batting average, 5.07 ERA, outscored by 24 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Braden Shewmake: 10-Day IL (groin), Nick Allen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Lance McCullers: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), LaMonte Wade<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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

Guardians: Chase DeLauter: 10-Day IL (rib), Angel Martinez: 10-Day IL (foot), Jose Ramirez: 10-Day IL (hand)<\/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 (40-36, second in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (36-41, 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":[42,5,3616,13576,3225,75686,1432,139,54,3211,5828,6464,19,4,2270,766,4678,2264],"class_list":["post-730776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-lamonte-wade-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nick-allen","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116781668331844684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730776","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=730776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730776\/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=730776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}