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New York Yankees<\/a> (88-63, second in the AL East) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (70-81, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Wednesday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Carlos Rodon<\/a> (6-3, 2.94 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 78 strikeouts); Twins: Zebby Matthews<\/a> (9-10, 4.98 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 99 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -149, Twins +121; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins take on the New York Yankees looking to end their three-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 70-81 overall and 39-38 at home. The Twins have a 32-68 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

New York is 46-31 on the road and 88-63 overall. The Yankees have hit 209 total home runs to lead the AL.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Kody Clemens<\/a> leads the Twins with 26 home runs while slugging .470. Luke Keaschall<\/a> is 10 for 34 with a double over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ben Rice<\/a> leads the Yankees with 38 home runs while slugging .525. Cody Bellinger<\/a> is 14 for 40 with four home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 3-7, .196 batting average, 5.79 ERA, outscored by 33 runs<\/p>\n

Yankees: 8-2, .267 batting average, 2.83 ERA, outscored opponents by 23 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Kaelen Culpepper: day-to-day (hamstring), Byron Buxton<\/a>: 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

Yankees: Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trent Grisham<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Ryan Weathers<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jazz Chisholm: 10-Day IL (thumb), Fernando Cruz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kervin Castro<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (calf)<\/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":"New York Yankees (88-63, second in the AL East) vs. Minnesota Twins (70-81, fourth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[8934,5,731,2223,2004,1216,1365,9707,3916,75686,8635,310,58674,461,413,19,5158,24121,60,4,1690,62,2548,2547,1997,1073,122,142,767],"class_list":["post-806348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-byron-buxton","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-fernando-cruz","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-kervin-castro","tag-kody-clemens","tag-luke-keaschall","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankees","tag-zebby-matthews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117280010604089289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806348","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=806348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806348\/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=806348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}