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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (72-65, first in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (70-68, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Tuesday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Sean Burke<\/a> (7-6, 3.32 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 161 strikeouts); Astros: Ronel Blanco<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -117, Astros -107; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros lead 1-0 in a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 34-35 record in home games and a 70-68 record overall. Astros hitters have a collective .410 slugging percentage to rank sixth in MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 72-65 overall and 31-38 in road games. The White Sox have a 49-25 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Tuesday is the fifth time these teams square off this season. The Astros hold a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has 28 doubles, a triple and 37 home runs for the Astros. Jeremy Pena<\/a> is 11 for 39 with two doubles, three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Miguel Vargas<\/a> has 30 doubles, a triple and 29 home runs for the White Sox. Tristan Peters<\/a> is 12 for 33 with two doubles and five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 6-4, .226 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 6-4, .235 batting average, 5.42 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 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

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 (72-65, first in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (70-68, first in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,13576,3225,49,14167,5285,75686,139,54,3211,5828,19,4154,6278,4,766,2003,30019,2264],"class_list":["post-793827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-murphy","tag-davis-martin","tag-event_preview","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-sean-burke","tag-tristan-peters","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117194993415447537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793827","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=793827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793827\/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=793827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}