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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (58-51, first in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (64-45, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Jordan Hicks<\/a> (1-1, 3.19 ERA, 1.48 WHIP, 36 strikeouts); Rays: Drew Rasmussen<\/a> (9-5, 3.07 ERA, 0.93 WHIP, 112 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -168, White Sox +140; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox seek to keep a three-game win streak alive when they play the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 64-45 record overall and a 40-17 record at home. Rays hitters have a collective .402 slugging percentage to rank seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 24-30 record in road games and a 58-51 record overall. The White Sox have the seventh-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.06.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Rays lead the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero<\/a> leads the Rays with 30 home runs while slugging .549. Victor Mesa Jr.<\/a> is 7 for 31 with three home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Munetaka Murakami<\/a> has nine doubles, 24 home runs and 51 RBIs while hitting .244 for the White Sox. Chase Meidroth<\/a> is 9 for 34 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 7-3, .256 batting average, 2.12 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 5-5, .213 batting average, 4.21 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cole Sulser<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

White Sox: Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (ankle), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Austin Hays: 60-Day IL (calf), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tyler Gilbert<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Chicago White Sox (58-51, first in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (64-45, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,1001,138,49,2561,7882,1999,6925,75686,1180,204,4682,19,1095,6278,4,73,1956,5720,4274,68,2117,16204,396,2562],"class_list":["post-766994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-cole-sulser","tag-drew-rasmussen","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jordan-hicks","tag-junior-caminero","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tyler-gilbert","tag-victor-mesa-jr","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117019308454061900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766994","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=766994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766994\/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=766994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}