{"id":764669,"date":"2026-07-29T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/764669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:57:14","slug":"reds-play-the-guardians-in-series-rubber-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/764669\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds play the Guardians in series rubber match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Guardians play on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati has a 50-56 record overall and a 23-29 record at home. The Reds have a 24-13 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is 55-54 overall and 28-28 in road games. The Guardians have the fifth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.75.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup Wednesday is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Guardians have a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: JJ Bleday has 11 doubles, a triple and 18 home runs for the Reds. Eugenio Suarez is 7 for 39 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Chase DeLauter has 20 doubles, a triple and 11 home runs for the Guardians. Steven Kwan is 14 for 39 with three doubles and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 6-4, .219 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: 3-7, .227 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Reds: Matt McLain: 10-Day IL (calf), Jose Franco: day-to-day (elbow), Spencer Steer: 10-Day IL (wrist), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Blake Dunn: 10-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Williamson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tony Santillan: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 15-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) \u2014 The Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Guardians play on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[4367,1769,5,135,51,2565,538,4],"class_list":["post-764669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-ap","tag-associated-press","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117004090924561758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764669","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=764669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}