{"id":818586,"date":"2026-10-01T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/818586\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:06:16","slug":"chicago-white-sox-will-face-cleveland-guardians-in-alds-preview-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/818586\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox will face Cleveland Guardians in ALDS: preview | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox swept Houston, 2-0, in the Wild Card round and will play Cleveland in the ALDS.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago won their first playoff series since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Sox look for their first ALDS series victory since 2005, and advance to the ALCS.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland has home field advantage after Chicago blew a several-game lead for the AL Central title.<\/p>\n<p>The Sox\/Guardians winner will face either Yankees or Rays in the ALCS.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is the betting favorite this series, as they have home field advantage and more playoff experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Sox offense has performed well with 13 combined runs vs. the 81-win Astros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox swept Houston, 2-0, in the Wild Card round and will play Cleveland in the ALDS.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,481,538,4,185],"class_list":["post-818586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-content","tag-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117363683012788929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818586","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=818586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}