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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (84-78, second in the AL Central during the regular season) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (81-81, first in the AL West during the regular season)<\/p>\n

Houston; Tuesday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Hagen Smith (3-3, 1.29 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 41 strikeouts); Astros: A.J. Blubaugh (5-3, 3.66 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 94 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -126, White Sox +106; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros host the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday in Game 1 of the AL Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 39-42 record in home games and an 81-81 record overall. The Astros have the fourth-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .418.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 36-45 record in road games and an 84-78 record overall. White Sox pitchers have a collective 4.13 ERA, which ranks eighth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the eighth time this season. The Astros are up 5-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 42 home runs while slugging .601. Jeremy Pena<\/a> is 15 for 47 with a double, a triple, three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Miguel Vargas<\/a> has 33 home runs, 101 walks and 93 RBIs while hitting .250 for the White Sox. Chase Meidroth<\/a> is 15 for 37 with four doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 5-5, .277 batting average, 3.33 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 7-3, .256 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Steven Okert<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Daulton Varsho<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Jake Meyers<\/a>: 60-Day IL (kneecap), Brice Matthews: 10-Day IL (knee), Cristian Javier: 15-Day IL (groin), Enyel De Los Santos<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Mike Burrows<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

White Sox: Luis Castillo<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ky Bush: 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 (84-78, second in the AL Central during the regular season) vs. Houston Astros (81-81, first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,13576,3225,1001,138,49,2561,854,11192,75686,54,452,5828,331,19,4154,363,6278,4,9278,396,2562,2264],"class_list":["post-817077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-daulton-varsho","tag-enyel-de-los-santos","tag-event_preview","tag-houston-astros","tag-jake-meyers","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-luis-castillo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-burrows","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-steven-okert","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117353632442645922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817077","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=817077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817077\/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=817077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}