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New York Mets<\/a> (58-71, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (67-61, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Christian Scott (4-3, 3.51 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 105 strikeouts); White Sox: Luis Castillo<\/a> (4-9, 4.99 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 102 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -118, Mets -102; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets hit the road against the Chicago White Sox looking to stop a three-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 38-25 at home and 67-61 overall. The White Sox have a 47-17 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

New York has a 58-71 record overall and a 28-36 record on the road. Mets pitchers have a collective 4.08 ERA, which ranks seventh in the NL.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Munetaka Murakami<\/a> leads the White Sox with 29 home runs while slugging .526. Miguel Vargas<\/a> is 13 for 39 with five home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Carson Benge<\/a> leads the Mets with a .272 batting average, and has 16 doubles, three triples, 15 home runs, 37 walks and 51 RBIs. Jared Young<\/a> is 14 for 37 with a home run and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 6-4, .249 batting average, 3.63 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 6-4, .233 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored by one run<\/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 (58-71, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago White Sox (67-61, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,5805,49,14167,8754,5285,83,75686,15622,120,134,25115,331,19,101,4154,6278,4,73,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":["post-785281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-carson-benge","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-murphy","tag-cionel-perez","tag-davis-martin","tag-devin-williams","tag-event_preview","tag-jared-young","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-luis-castillo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mets","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117138157942768973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785281","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=785281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785281\/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=785281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}