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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (75-73, second in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (69-78, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Daniel Espino (0-0, 2.70 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 18 strikeouts); Twins: Connor Prielipp<\/a> (4-7, 5.25 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 116 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -119, Twins -103; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians face the Minnesota Twins with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 38-35 record in home games and a 69-78 record overall. The Twins are 48-17 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 75-73 overall and 39-34 on the road. The Guardians have the fifth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.80.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the 12th time this season. The Twins are up 6-5 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kody Clemens<\/a> has 21 doubles, six triples and 26 home runs for the Twins. Ryan Jeffers<\/a> is 10 for 37 with three doubles, a triple and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jo Adell<\/a> leads the Guardians with 45 extra base hits (24 doubles, a triple and 20 home runs). Angel Martinez<\/a> is 10 for 33 with a double, a triple, three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 4-6, .224 batting average, 4.85 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Guardians: 5-5, .234 batting average, 5.00 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Byron Buxton: 10-Day IL (hip), Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

Guardians: Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Colin Holderman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (hamstring), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg)<\/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":"Cleveland Guardians (75-73, second in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (69-78, third in the AL Central) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[8934,5,135,51,2565,9707,6969,3916,75686,538,461,19,5158,24121,60,4,1997,1252],"class_list":["post-803196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-cole-sands","tag-connor-prielipp","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-kody-clemens","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-ryan-jeffers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117258482089110617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803196","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=803196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803196\/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=803196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}