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Houston Astros<\/a> (65-66, second in the AL West) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (74-56, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Tuesday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Ethan Pecko (0-0, 4.91 ERA, 1.64 WHIP, four strikeouts); Yankees: Will Warren<\/a> (8-6, 4.43 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 122 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -145, Astros +121; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees host the Houston Astros on Tuesday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

New York is 33-28 in home games and 74-56 overall. Yankees hitters have a collective .407 slugging percentage to rank eighth in the majors.<\/p>\n

Houston is 65-66 overall and 32-31 on the road. The Astros rank fifth in the majors with 173 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> has 20 doubles, three triples and 34 home runs for the Yankees. Spencer Jones<\/a> is 10 for 35 with two doubles, two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has 28 doubles, 36 home runs and 90 RBIs for the Astros. Isaac Paredes<\/a> is 11 for 35 with two doubles, two home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 6-4, .204 batting average, 2.02 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 4-6, .218 batting average, 5.34 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Ryan Weathers: 15-Day IL (forearm), Ryan McMahon: 10-Day IL (thumb), Aaron Judge: 60-Day IL (rib), Max Fried<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Kervin Castro<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Astros: Mike Burrows: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brice Matthews: 60-Day IL (knee), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/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":"Houston Astros (65-66, second in the AL West) vs. New York Yankees (74-56, second in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,731,13576,3225,1216,75686,310,139,54,3211,893,58674,19,108,4,62,5055,772,2264],"class_list":["post-787880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-kervin-castro","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-spencer-jones","tag-will-warren","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117155298219405921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787880","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=787880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787880\/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=787880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}