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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (69-76, third in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (66-79, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Zebby Matthews<\/a> (9-9, 4.69 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 97 strikeouts); Tigers: Keider Montero<\/a> (9-8, 3.52 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 96 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -134, Twins +109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins play on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 35-36 at home and 66-79 overall. Tigers pitchers have a collective 3.69 ERA, which ranks fifth in the majors.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 69-76 overall and 31-42 in road games. Twins hitters are batting a collective .245, which ranks sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the 13th time this season. The Twins are up 8-4 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Riley Greene<\/a> leads the Tigers with a .277 batting average, and has 29 doubles, a triple, 19 home runs, 62 walks and 64 RBIs. Gleyber Torres<\/a> is 12 for 35 with an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luke Keaschall<\/a> leads the Twins with a .276 batting average, and has 25 doubles, a triple, nine home runs, 53 walks and 44 RBIs. Brooks Lee<\/a> is 11 for 41 with a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 3-7, .221 batting average, 5.19 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 5-5, .232 batting average, 3.90 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Matt Vierling: 60-Day IL (adductor), Will Vest: 60-Day IL (elbow), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (heel), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Jack Flaherty<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Twins: Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Martin: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Byron Buxton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Mike Paredes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Cole Sands<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Pablo Lopez<\/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":"Minnesota Twins (69-76, third in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (66-79, fourth in the AL Central) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[8934,29375,5,1391,2223,9707,3916,147,53,2583,75686,95,84,388,6671,391,413,19,5158,24121,60,4,1997,768,624,594,767],"class_list":["post-800460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-anthony-banda","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-brooks-lee","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-event_preview","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-justin-verlander","tag-keider-montero","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-luke-keaschall","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-tigers","tag-zebby-matthews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117240386269109363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800460","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=800460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800460\/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=800460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}