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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (54-53, second in the AL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (49-55, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Monday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Slade Cecconi (4-7, 4.60 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 82 strikeouts); Reds: Chase Burns<\/a> (12-1, 2.42 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 124 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Reds -176, Guardians +144; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians look to end their five-game skid with a win against the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 22-28 in home games and 49-55 overall. The Reds have hit 137 total home runs to rank third in the NL.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 27-27 record in road games and a 54-53 record overall. The Guardians have a 39-18 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Elly De La Cruz<\/a> has 15 doubles, four triples, 18 home runs and 47 RBIs while hitting .278 for the Reds. Nathaniel Lowe<\/a> is 10 for 33 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 20 doubles, a triple and 11 home runs for the Guardians. Steven Kwan<\/a> is 17 for 37 with three doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 6-4, .232 batting average, 4.91 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 3-7, .240 batting average, 4.10 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Spencer Steer: day-to-day (hand), Blake Dunn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Matt McLain<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tony Santillan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 15-Day IL (leg)<\/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 (54-53, second in the AL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds (49-55, fifth in the NL Central) Cincinnati;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,7026,12054,708,50,135,51,2565,1177,75686,538,19,1401,4,495,12475],"class_list":["post-762761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-chase-burns","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-mclain","tag-mlb","tag-nathaniel-lowe","tag-tony-santillan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116991787222479676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762761","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=762761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}