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New York Mets<\/a> (47-66, fifth in the NL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (57-56, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Sean Manaea<\/a> (2-5, 4.42 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 88 strikeouts); Guardians: Joey Cantillo (8-6, 3.88 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 124 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -151, Mets +126; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians start a three-game series at home against the New York Mets on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 28-28 at home and 57-56 overall. Guardians pitchers have a collective 3.76 ERA, which ranks eighth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

New York has a 47-66 record overall and a 22-32 record in road games. The Mets have a 32-5 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brayan Rocchio<\/a> has 17 doubles, two triples, nine home runs and 50 RBIs for the Guardians. Kyle Manzardo<\/a> is 8 for 30 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bo Bichette<\/a> has 16 doubles, a triple and 10 home runs for the Mets. Carson Benge<\/a> is 10 for 36 with two doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 3-7, .196 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 4-6, .212 batting average, 2.80 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n

Mets: Austin Warren<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Cionel Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 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":"New York Mets (47-66, fifth in the NL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians (57-56, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[2109,5,88,5805,8754,135,51,2565,75686,538,134,25115,19,4,61,1268],"class_list":["post-769687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-austin-warren","tag-baseball","tag-bo-bichette","tag-carson-benge","tag-cionel-perez","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sean-manaea"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117036814386534662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769687","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=769687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769687\/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=769687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}