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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (73-65, first in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (70-69, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Davis Martin<\/a> (0-0); Astros: Hayden Wesneski<\/a> (4-1, 3.86 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 28 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -144, White Sox +117; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros host the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Houston has gone 34-36 in home games and 70-69 overall. The Astros have the eighth-best team slugging percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .409.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 73-65 overall and 32-38 in road games. The White Sox have a 34-20 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the sixth time this season. The Astros lead the season series 3-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with a .316 batting average, and has 28 doubles, a triple, 37 home runs, 96 walks and 94 RBIs. Jeremy Pena<\/a> is 11 for 41 with three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sam Antonacci<\/a> has 20 doubles, three triples and eight 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: 5-5, .207 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 6-4, .239 batting average, 5.11 ERA, outscored by two 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: Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Davis Martin: 15-Day IL (finger), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Huascar Brazoban: 15-Day IL (lat), Ky Bush: 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

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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 (73-65, first in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (70-69, 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":[42,5,13576,3225,49,14167,5285,75686,1432,139,54,3211,5828,19,6278,4,17709,30019,2264],"class_list":["post-794759","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-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-sam-antonacci","tag-tristan-peters","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117201186533920099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794759","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=794759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794759\/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=794759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}