{"id":746221,"date":"2026-07-08T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/746221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:21:15","slug":"guardians-aim-to-end-3-game-losing-streak-take-on-the-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/746221\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians aim to end 3-game losing streak, take on the Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (47-45, second in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (45-47, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Slade Cecconi (4-6, 4.44 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Twins: Connor Prielipp<\/a> (2-5, 4.96 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 65 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -136, Guardians +112; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians are looking to break their three-game skid with a victory over the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 45-47 overall and 23-23 in home games. The Twins have the seventh-best team slugging percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .416.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 23-23 record on the road and a 47-45 record overall. The Guardians have a 15-3 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the fifth time these teams square off this season. The Twins have a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Chase DeLauter<\/a> leads the Guardians with a .276 batting average, and has 16 doubles, a triple, eight home runs, 29 walks and 41 RBIs. Brayan Rocchio<\/a> is 10 for 33 with a home run and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 7-3, .266 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 5-5, .246 batting average, 3.70 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Byron Buxton: 10-Day IL (hip), Zebby Matthews<\/a>: day-to-day (foot), Ryan Jeffers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Mick Abel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cole Sands<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Bailey Ober: 15-Day IL (elbow), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Angel Martinez: 10-Day IL (foot), Jose Ramirez<\/a>: 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 (47-45, second in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (45-47, third in the AL Central) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[8934,5,6199,22912,51,9707,6969,3916,75686,865,19,5158,822,60,3190,4,1997,1252,148,767],"class_list":["post-746221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cole-sands","tag-connor-prielipp","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-ryan-jeffers","tag-twins","tag-zebby-matthews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116883625309002336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746221","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=746221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}