Cleveland Guardians (40-35, second in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (35-41, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Houston; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Tanner Bibee (2-7, 3.96 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Astros: Tatsuya Imai (3-3, 6.43 ERA, 1.51 WHIP, 37 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Astros -125, Guardians +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros start a three-game series at home against the Cleveland Guardians on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Houston has a 35-41 record overall and an 18-20 record in home games. The Astros are 17-36 in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cleveland is 21-18 on the road and 40-35 overall. The Guardians are 17-7 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday’s game is the fourth time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Christian Walker has 14 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 52 RBI while hitting .246 for the Astros. Yordan Alvarez is 15 for 40 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steven Kwan has eight doubles, a home run and 13 RBI while hitting .213 for the Guardians. Jose Ramirez is 10 for 39 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 5-5, .214 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by 17 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guardians: 4-6, .211 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Astros: Nick Allen: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Lance McCullers: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa: 15-Day IL (elbow), LaMonte Wade: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Braden Shewmake: 10-Day IL (groin), Carlos Correa: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guardians: Chase DeLauter: 10-Day IL (rib), Angel Martinez: 10-Day IL (foot), Jose Ramirez: 10-Day IL (hand), Erik Sabrowski: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cleveland Guardians (40-35, second in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (35-41, fourth in the AL West) Houston; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Tanner Bibee (2-7, 3.96 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Astros: Tatsuya Imai (3-3, 6.43 ERA, 1.51 WHIP, 37 strikeouts) LINE: Astros -125, Guardians +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs BOTTOM […]<\/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-417858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417858","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=417858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417859,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417858\/revisions\/417859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}