{"id":812982,"date":"2026-09-24T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/812982\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:57:15","slug":"red-sox-and-guardians-play-to-determine-series-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/812982\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox and Guardians play to determine series winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (82-76, first in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (85-73, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Thursday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Daniel Espino (0-0, 4.73 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Red Sox: Ranger Suarez<\/a> (8-4, 3.27 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 135 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -140, Guardians +116; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Guardians play on Thursday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Boston is 85-73 overall and 39-38 at home. The Red Sox have the ninth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .247.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 82-76 overall and 41-36 in road games. Guardians hitters are batting a collective .238, which ranks 10th in the AL.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Red Sox hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 37 doubles, four triples and 24 home runs while hitting .253 for the Red Sox. Trevor Story<\/a> is 11 for 37 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chase DeLauter<\/a> leads the Guardians with a .290 batting average, and has 29 doubles, three triples, 15 home runs, 57 walks and 65 RBIs. Angel Martinez<\/a> is 15 for 38 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 5-5, .231 batting average, 2.71 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

Guardians: 7-3, .261 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Ceddanne Rafaela: day-to-day (hamstring), Willson Contreras: day-to-day (hand), Eli White: 10-Day IL (foot), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Seigler<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Eduardo Rivera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Colin Holderman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist)<\/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 (82-76, first in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox (85-73, third in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[24971,5,48,135,51,2565,74108,75686,538,5416,1093,19,792,4,90,1035,1946,606,15821],"class_list":["post-812982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-anthony-seigler","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-eduardo-rivera","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-justin-slaten","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-trevor-story","tag-triston-casas","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117325427102010389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812982","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=812982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812982\/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=812982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}