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New York Mets<\/a> (58-70, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (66-61, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Friday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Sean Manaea<\/a> (4-5, 4.22 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 113 strikeouts); White Sox: Sean Burke<\/a> (7-6, 3.15 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 154 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -150, Mets +125; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox start a three-game series at home against the New York Mets on Friday.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 66-61 record overall and a 37-25 record in home games. The White Sox have the eighth-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .408.<\/p>\n

New York has gone 28-35 in road games and 58-70 overall. The Mets have gone 32-17 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase Meidroth<\/a> has 24 doubles and 12 home runs for the White Sox. Miguel Vargas<\/a> is 12 for 39 with four doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bo Bichette<\/a> has 21 doubles, two triples and 12 home runs while hitting .266 for the Mets. Luis Torrens<\/a> is 10 for 24 with five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 5-5, .248 batting average, 3.59 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 7-3, .251 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: White Sox: Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Davis Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (finger), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chris Murphy<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (ankle), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Mets: Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), Cionel Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Devin Williams<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), 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 (58-70, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago White Sox (66-61, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,88,1001,138,49,2561,14167,8754,5285,83,75686,120,134,25115,5214,19,4154,6278,4,61,2003,1268,396,2562],"class_list":["post-784475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-bo-bichette","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-chris-murphy","tag-cionel-perez","tag-davis-martin","tag-devin-williams","tag-event_preview","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-luis-torrens","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sean-burke","tag-sean-manaea","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117133109068125539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784475","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=784475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784475\/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=784475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}