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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (98-64, first in the AL East during the regular season) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (85-77, first in the AL Central during the regular season)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Friday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Nick Martinez<\/a> (0-0); Guardians: TBD<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -113, Guardians -108; over\/under is 6 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians and the Tampa Bay Rays meet in Game 4 of the ALCS. The Guardians are ahead 2-1 in the series.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 41-40 record at home and an 85-77 record overall. Guardians pitchers have a collective 3.77 ERA, which ranks eighth in the majors.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has gone 43-38 in road games and 98-64 overall. Rays hitters have a collective .326 on-base percentage, the sixth-best percentage in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

The teams play Friday for the 10th time this season. The Rays lead the season series 6-3.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jose Ramirez<\/a> has 27 doubles and 12 home runs for the Guardians. Patrick Bailey<\/a> is 10 for 30 with four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yandy Diaz<\/a> has 26 doubles, a triple, 22 home runs and 85 RBIs while hitting .293 for the Rays. Jonny Deluca is 11 for 36 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .249 batting average, 2.86 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 6-4, .229 batting average, 3.00 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Colin Holderman: 15-Day IL (wrist), Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n

Rays: Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jacob Melton: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/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":"Tampa Bay Rays (98-64, first in the AL East during the regular season) vs. Cleveland Guardians (85-77, first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,6925,75686,538,1398,865,19,4,761,7661,1956,5720,68,3348],"class_list":["post-830608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-jonny-deluca","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nick-martinez","tag-patrick-bailey","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117449891681002159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830608","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=830608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830608\/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=830608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}