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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (56-56, second in the AL Central) vs. Seattle Mariners<\/a> (54-58, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Seattle; Sunday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Taj Bradley<\/a> (9-4, 3.65 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 139 strikeouts); Mariners: George Kirby<\/a> (8-9, 3.98 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 107 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mariners -140, Twins +118; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 54-58 record overall and a 31-24 record in home games. The Mariners have a 36-18 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 26-29 record in road games and a 56-56 record overall. The Twins are 39-23 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Mariners are ahead 3-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Randy Arozarena<\/a> leads the Mariners with a .283 batting average, and has 23 doubles, a triple, 14 home runs, 43 walks and 49 RBIs. Cole Young<\/a> is 14 for 41 with a home run and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Josh Bell<\/a> has 23 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs and 63 RBIs for the Twins. Ryan Jeffers<\/a> is 11 for 37 with two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mariners: 3-7, .229 batting average, 5.51 ERA, outscored by 17 runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 7-3, .212 batting average, 3.12 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mariners: Luke Raley: 10-Day IL (elbow), J.P. Crawford: 10-Day IL (wrist), Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Matt Brash<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Cooper Criswell<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Will Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (thumb), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Twins: Mike Paredes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Cole Sands<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Byron Buxton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Pablo Lopez<\/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":"Minnesota Twins (56-56, second in the AL Central) vs. Seattle Mariners (54-58, third in the AL West) Seattle;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[8934,5,4492,2223,4990,9707,12342,10947,3916,75686,465,3541,19,620,2053,5158,24121,60,4,1997,1456,1252,619,65,3235,763,16021],"class_list":["post-767904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-byron-buxton","tag-carlos-vargas","tag-cole-sands","tag-cole-young","tag-cooper-criswell","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-george-kirby","tag-josh-bell","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mariners","tag-matt-brash","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-ryan-jeffers","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-taj-bradley","tag-will-wilson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117025395430559827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767904","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=767904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767904\/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=767904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}