Cincinnati Reds (35-38, fifth in the NL Central) vs. New York Yankees (45-28, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New York; Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Rhett Lowder (3-3, 4.60 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 37 strikeouts); Yankees: Cam Schlittler (7-3, 1.82 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 96 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Yankees -287, Reds +226; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees begin a three-game series at home against the Cincinnati Reds on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New York is 45-28 overall and 21-13 at home. The Yankees have the sixth-best team on-base percentage in MLB play at .332.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cincinnati has gone 16-19 in road games and 35-38 overall. The Reds are 19-31 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice leads the Yankees with 20 home runs while slugging .606. Paul Goldschmidt is 17 for 43 with four home runs and 13 RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sal Stewart leads the Reds with 14 home runs while slugging .456. Blake Dunn is 12 for 45 with two doubles, a home run and two RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 8-2, .276 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reds: 4-6, .218 batting average, 3.53 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Yankees: Jazz Chisholm: day-to-day (groin), Austin Wells: 10-Day IL (cervical headaches), Max Fried: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trent Grisham: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Giancarlo Stanton: 10-Day IL (leg), Aaron Judge: 10-Day IL (rib), Clarke Schmidt: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reds: Elly De La Cruz: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Ke’Bryan Hayes: 10-Day IL (back), Pierce Johnson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Emilio Pagan: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Brandon Williamson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Greene: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cincinnati Reds (35-38, fifth in the NL Central) vs. New York Yankees (45-28, first in the AL East) New York; Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Rhett Lowder (3-3, 4.60 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 37 strikeouts); Yankees: Cam Schlittler (7-3, 1.82 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 96 strikeouts) LINE: Yankees -287, Reds +226; over\/under is 8 1\/2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417851,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417850\/revisions\/417851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}