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Miami Marlins<\/a> (75-77, third in the NL East) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (80-72, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Wednesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Ryan Gusto<\/a> (1-5, 4.14 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 65 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Merrill Kelly<\/a> (9-13, 4.97 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 102 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Diamondbacks -136, Marlins +111; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks and Miami Marlins play on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Arizona has an 80-72 record overall and a 43-34 record at home. The Diamondbacks are 37-13 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Miami is 75-77 overall and 30-44 on the road. Marlins hitters are batting a collective .249, which ranks sixth in the NL.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Marlins are up 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nolan Arenado<\/a> is third on the Diamondbacks with 49 extra base hits (23 doubles, a triple and 25 home runs). Gabriel Moreno<\/a> is 14 for 41 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Javier Sanoja<\/a> has 30 doubles, five triples and nine home runs for the Marlins. Graham Pauley<\/a> is 7 for 25 with a triple and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 6-4, .264 batting average, 3.32 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 4-6, .273 batting average, 5.93 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Tyler Locklear: 60-Day IL (thumb), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Marlins: Pete Fairbanks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Owen Caissie<\/a>: 10-Day IL (lumbar stress), Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Max Meyer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), William Kempner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/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":"Miami Marlins (75-77, third in the NL East) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (80-72, third in the NL West) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[24644,8217,13491,1114,146,22,4314,5,38,75686,5993,14492,4289,19,1714,660,58,4,1028,9677,848,7729,5100,655,5938,40190],"class_list":["post-806373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-anthony-bender","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-diamondbacks","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-moreno","tag-graham-pauley","tag-javier-sanoja","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-meyer","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-owen-caissie","tag-pete-fairbanks","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-ryan-gusto","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-william-kempner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117280211191572390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806373","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=806373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806373\/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=806373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}