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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (51-74, fourth in the NL West) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (61-65, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Matt Wilkinson (0-0); Guardians: Parker Messick (9-7, 2.59 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 142 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -187, Giants +154; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants will attempt to end a three-game road slide when they play the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has gone 30-33 in home games and 61-65 overall. Guardians pitchers have a collective 3.83 ERA, which ranks seventh in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 51-74 overall and 22-41 on the road. Giants hitters have a collective .407 slugging percentage to rank 10th in MLB.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the second time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 22 doubles, a triple and 13 home runs for the Guardians. Jo Adell<\/a> is 8 for 35 with three doubles, three home runs and 11 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> has 26 doubles, four triples, nine home runs and 46 RBIs for the Giants. Bryce Eldridge<\/a> is 8 for 37 with a double, three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 4-6, .249 batting average, 3.87 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 3-7, .210 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (hamstring), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg), Slade Cecconi: 15-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Giants: Willy Adames: day-to-day (back), Jesus Rodriguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (leg), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Daniel Susac: 10-Day IL (knee), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Casey Schmitt: 10-Day IL (leg), Matt Gage<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/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":"San Francisco Giants (51-74, fourth in the NL West) vs. Cleveland Guardians (61-65, third in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,710,75686,365,16008,44621,375,19,1248,379,12022,4,12859,70335,66,48585],"class_list":["post-782712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-bryce-eldridge","tag-event_preview","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-mlb","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-trevor-mcdonald"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117121406972709650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782712","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=782712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}