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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (74-84, third in the AL Central) vs. San Francisco Giants<\/a> (65-93, fourth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Wednesday, 3:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Connor Prielipp<\/a> (6-7, 4.94 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 125 strikeouts); Giants: Cesar Perdomo<\/a> (0-1, 3.72 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -143, Giants +118; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants and Minnesota Twins meet on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 37-40 record at home and a 65-93 record overall. The Giants have gone 34-67 in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 74-84 overall and 34-46 on the road. The Twins have the fifth-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .402.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Christian Koss<\/a> has six doubles and four home runs for the Giants. Drew Gilbert<\/a> is 7 for 21 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brooks Lee<\/a> has 24 doubles, three triples and 24 home runs for the Twins. Luke Keaschall<\/a> is 13 for 40 with a double and a triple over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 3-7, .235 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 4-6, .231 batting average, 3.63 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Giants: Willy Adames: 10-Day IL (elbow), Blade Tidwell: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jung Hoo Lee: 10-Day IL (groin), Bryce Eldridge: 7-Day IL (head), Reiver Sanmartin: 15-Day IL (oblique), Rafael Devers: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Nate Furman: 10-Day IL (oblique), Logan Webb: 15-Day IL (finger), J.T. Brubaker: 15-Day IL (ribs), Matt Gage<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adrian Houser<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jesus Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Keaton Winn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Casey Schmitt: 60-Day IL (leg), Carson Whisenhunt: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Daniel Susac: 60-Day IL (knee), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (leg), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Twins: Byron Buxton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Trevor Larnach<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Kaelen Culpepper: 10-Day IL (hamstring), 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

___<\/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 (74-84, third in the AL Central) vs. San Francisco Giants (65-93, fourth in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[11710,8934,5,1391,2223,97443,7885,9707,6969,3916,19916,75686,365,16008,44621,40915,413,19,379,12022,5158,24121,822,60,3190,4,1997,12859,70335,66,3477,48585,148],"class_list":["post-812151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-adrian-houser","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-brooks-lee","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cesar-perdomo","tag-christian-koss","tag-cole-sands","tag-connor-prielipp","tag-david-festa","tag-drew-gilbert","tag-event_preview","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-joel-peguero","tag-keaton-winn","tag-luke-keaschall","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-trevor-larnach","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812151","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=812151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812151\/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=812151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}