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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (63-66, third in the AL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies<\/a> (50-78, fifth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Denver; Saturday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Tanner Bibee (4-13, 4.01 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 117 strikeouts); Rockies: Gabriel Hughes<\/a> (0-4, 6.69 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 33 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -142, Rockies +119; over\/under is 11 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians take on the Colorado Rockies after Travis Bazzana<\/a> had four hits against the Rockies on Friday.<\/p>\n

Colorado has a 50-78 record overall and a 27-36 record at home. Rockies hitters have a collective .323 on-base percentage, the ninth-best percentage in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 32-32 record on the road and a 63-66 record overall. Guardians pitchers have a collective 3.77 ERA, which ranks fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Karros<\/a> has 20 doubles, two triples, 10 home runs and 44 RBIs for the Rockies. Brett Sullivan<\/a> is 7 for 25 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 22 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs and 57 RBIs for the Guardians. Jo Adell<\/a> is 9 for 34 with two doubles, three home runs and 12 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockies: 4-6, .214 batting average, 6.27 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 5-5, .256 batting average, 2.86 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockies: Hunter Goodman: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Sullivan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Freeland<\/a>: day-to-day (neck), Tyler Freeman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (lumbar), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg), Slade Cecconi: 15-Day IL (arm)<\/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":"Cleveland Guardians (63-66, third in the AL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (50-78, fifth in the NL West) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,14336,22912,135,51,2565,52,75686,16903,538,2179,1022,39318,19,42377,4,39325,12569,7903,56859],"class_list":["post-785301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-brett-sullivan","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-hughes","tag-guardians","tag-jo-adell","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-karros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-travis-bazzana","tag-tyler-freeman","tag-welinton-herrera"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117138287709400702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785301","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=785301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785301\/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=785301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}