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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (72-63, first in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (64-72, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Sunday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Jordan Hicks<\/a> (2-1, 3.83 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 49 strikeouts); Twins: Zebby Matthews<\/a> (8-8, 4.86 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 88 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -118, White Sox +104; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox are looking to keep a four-game win streak alive when they play the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 64-72 overall and 35-33 in home games. Twins hitters have a collective .318 on-base percentage, the fifth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 31-36 record on the road and a 72-63 record overall. The White Sox have a 34-20 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the 10th meeting between these teams this season. The White Sox are ahead 6-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Luke Keaschall<\/a> leads the Twins with a .271 batting average, and has 22 doubles, a triple, eight home runs, 48 walks and 40 RBIs. Kaelen Culpepper<\/a> is 13 for 36 with two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Miguel Vargas<\/a> has 29 home runs, 84 walks and 76 RBIs while hitting .249 for the White Sox. Tristan Peters<\/a> is 11 for 33 with two doubles, five home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 3-7, .248 batting average, 5.08 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 7-3, .235 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Byron Buxton: day-to-day (back), Austin Martin: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Joe Ryan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (glute), Mike Paredes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Cole Sands<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

White Sox: Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Davis Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (finger), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Huascar Brazoban: 15-Day IL (lat), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chris Murphy<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (ankle), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/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":"Chicago White Sox (72-63, first in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (64-72, third in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[8934,5,49,14167,9707,3916,5285,75686,1455,204,9228,413,19,5158,4154,24121,6278,822,60,3190,4,1997,30019,148,767],"class_list":["post-792148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-murphy","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-davis-martin","tag-event_preview","tag-joe-ryan","tag-jordan-hicks","tag-kaelen-culpepper","tag-luke-keaschall","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-paredes","tag-mike-vasil","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-tristan-peters","tag-twins","tag-zebby-matthews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117183586226269603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792148","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=792148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792148\/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=792148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}