Minnesota Twins (49-51, third in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (52-48, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Monday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Joe Ryan (6-5, 3.34 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 128 strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (3-9, 3.90 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 87 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Twins -122, Guardians +100; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians host the Minnesota Twins on Monday to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n
Cleveland has a 25-24 record at home and a 52-48 record overall. The Guardians have gone 21-10 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has a 49-51 record overall and a 23-26 record on the road. The Twins have the eighth-best team slugging percentage in MLB play at .413.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s game is the seventh time these teams match up this season. The Twins hold a 4-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter has 17 doubles, a triple and 11 home runs for the Guardians. Steven Kwan is 13 for 29 with two doubles over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 5-5, .240 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n
Twins: 6-4, .258 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Guardians: Jose Ramirez: 10-Day IL (hand), Angel Martinez: 10-Day IL (foot), Tim Herrin: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Twins: Marco Raya: 15-Day IL (shoulder), David Festa: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Byron Buxton: 10-Day IL (hip), Cole Sands: 15-Day IL (forearm), Mick Abel: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Banda: 60-Day IL (lat), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Connor Prielipp: 15-Day IL (finger), Pablo Lopez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins (49-51, third in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (52-48, second in the AL Central) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[6197,8934,5,2223,51,9707,6969,3916,47002,5163,1455,865,15636,5158,822,60,3190,4,256,1997,185,2081,777,8466,148],"class_list":["post-756607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-angel-martinez","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cole-sands","tag-connor-prielipp","tag-david-festa","tag-garrett-acton","tag-illinois","tag-joe-ryan","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-marco-raya","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-sports","tag-steven-kwan","tag-tanner-bibee","tag-tim-herrin","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116951372477588427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756607","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=756607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}