{"id":806343,"date":"2026-09-16T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/806343\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:15:15","slug":"guardians-play-the-white-sox-with-series-tied-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/806343\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians play the White Sox with series tied 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox<\/a> (77-74, first in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (77-75, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Anthony Kay<\/a> (9-9, 4.59 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 118 strikeouts); Guardians: Parker Messick (11-9, 2.51 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 178 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -178, White Sox +144; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox play on Wednesday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has gone 37-40 in home games and 77-75 overall. The Guardians are 58-27 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 77-74 record overall and a 34-43 record in road games. The White Sox have a 31-19 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the 13th time this season. The White Sox lead the season series 7-5.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Steven Kwan<\/a> has 21 doubles, two triples, three home runs and 30 RBIs while hitting .279 for the Guardians. Travis Bazzana<\/a> is 15 for 34 with three doubles and five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Miguel Vargas<\/a> leads the White Sox with 31 home runs while slugging .475. Munetaka Murakami<\/a> is 4 for 35 with two home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 5-5, .241 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

White Sox: 3-7, .215 batting average, 4.13 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 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

White Sox: Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Huascar Brazoban: 15-Day IL (lat), Tommy Pham<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (hand), 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 (77-74, first in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (77-75, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[10945,5,49,135,51,2565,12858,75686,538,19,4154,6278,4,73,2081,8,12569],"class_list":["post-806343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-anthony-kay","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-colin-holderman","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-steven-kwan","tag-tommy-pham","tag-travis-bazzana"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117279963454311721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806343","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=806343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806343\/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=806343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}