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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (52-77, fourth in the NL West) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (70-59, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Sunday, 3:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Matt Wilkinson<\/a> (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.50 WHIP, zero strikeouts); Red Sox: Jake Bennett<\/a> (7-6, 3.46 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 61 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -220, Giants +192; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants, on a three-game losing streak, take on the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n

Boston has gone 33-32 in home games and 70-59 overall. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 3.51 ERA, which ranks third in the majors.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 23-44 record in road games and a 52-77 record overall. The Giants have gone 26-13 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> has a .286 batting average to lead the Red Sox, and has 32 doubles, three triples and 16 home runs. Caleb Durbin<\/a> is 14 for 38 with a home run and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rafael Devers<\/a> leads the Giants with 26 home runs while slugging .471. Willy Adames<\/a> is 12 for 36 with three home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 6-4, .287 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 3-7, .228 batting average, 4.08 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 60-Day IL (forearm), 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

Giants: Keaton Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jesus Rodriguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Daniel Susac: 60-Day IL (knee), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (leg), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), 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 (52-77, fourth in the NL West) vs. Boston Red Sox (70-59, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,48,3615,1396,75686,162,365,49841,16008,44621,5416,1093,40915,19,1248,792,379,12022,73681,4,863,12859,793,70335,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,48585,1946,103,15821],"class_list":["post-786185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-event_preview","tag-giants","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jake-bennett","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-joel-peguero","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-justin-slaten","tag-keaton-winn","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-matt-wilkinson","tag-mlb","tag-rafael-devers","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-roman-anthony","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-triston-casas","tag-willy-adames","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786185","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=786185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786185\/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=786185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}