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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (47-46, second in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (46-47, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Thursday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Gavin Williams<\/a> (9-4, 3.89 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 123 strikeouts); Twins: Bailey Ober (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -134, Twins +110; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians enter the matchup with the Minnesota Twins after losing four games in a row.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 24-23 in home games and 46-47 overall. The Twins have the 10th-best team on-base percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .324.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 47-46 record overall and a 23-24 record in road games. The Guardians are 34-17 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Thursday for the sixth time this season. The Twins are up 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brooks Lee<\/a> has 14 home runs, 25 walks and 50 RBIs while hitting .252 for the Twins. Kody Clemens<\/a> is 14 for 41 with two doubles, a triple, four home runs and 13 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 7-3, .261 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 4-6, .246 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Bailey Ober: 15-Day IL (elbow), Marco Raya: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Byron Buxton<\/a>: 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), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Tim Herrin: day-to-day (elbow), 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 (47-46, second in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (46-47, 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":[8934,5,1391,2223,9707,3916,75686,461,19,5158,822,60,3190,4,1997,1252,148,767],"class_list":["post-747090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-brooks-lee","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-kody-clemens","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\/116889299405928493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747090","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=747090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747090\/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=747090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}