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Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (66-61, third in the NL West) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (68-58, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Brandon Pfaadt<\/a> (7-1, 3.11 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Red Sox: Payton Tolle<\/a> (8-6, 2.97 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 128 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -152, Diamondbacks +126; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks will try to stop a three-game road losing streak when they face the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n

Boston is 68-58 overall and 31-31 at home. The Red Sox are 25-9 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Arizona is 66-61 overall and 30-34 in road games. The Diamondbacks have a 47-24 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the third meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Willson Contreras<\/a> is third on the Red Sox with 48 extra base hits (21 doubles, two triples and 25 home runs). Wilyer Abreu<\/a> is 9 for 34 with four doubles, two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Corbin Carroll<\/a> has 26 doubles, 15 triples, 18 home runs and 57 RBIs for the Diamondbacks. Nolan Arenado<\/a> is 8 for 37 with a triple, four home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 4-6, .267 batting average, 3.49 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: 4-6, .243 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jahmai Jones: day-to-day (undisclosed), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Whitlock: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: Nolan Arenado: day-to-day (neck), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Zac Gallen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Lourdes Gurriel<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (adductor), Tommy Troy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Drey Jameson: 15-Day IL (hip), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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":"Arizona Diamondbacks (66-61, third in the NL West) vs. Boston Red Sox (68-58, third in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[13491,146,22,4314,5,7905,48,654,97,1538,38,75686,5416,1093,1447,19,792,4,1028,3973,793,655,5938,30242,1946,409,606,86,15821],"class_list":["post-782719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-walston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-diamondbacks","tag-event_preview","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-justin-slaten","tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-payton-tolle","tag-roman-anthony","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-tommy-troy","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zac-gallen","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117121465974966754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782719","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=782719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782719\/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=782719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}