Detroit Tigers (29-40, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (37-33, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Jack Flaherty (1-7, 5.31 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 77 strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (1-7, 4.09 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 63 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Guardians -116, Tigers -104; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians start a three-game series at home against the Detroit Tigers on Friday.<\/p>\n
Cleveland is 17-17 in home games and 37-33 overall. The Guardians have the 10th-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .316.<\/p>\n
Detroit has an 11-24 record in road games and a 29-40 record overall. The Tigers have a 21-6 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n
The matchup Friday is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The Guardians hold a 4-0 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brayan Rocchio leads the Guardians with a .276 batting average, and has nine doubles, a triple, five home runs, 22 walks and 31 RBIs. Jose Ramirez is 13 for 42 with two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dillon Dingler leads the Tigers with 30 extra base hits (14 doubles and 16 home runs). Riley Greene is 10 for 37 with a double, four home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 3-7, .227 batting average, 4.81 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n
Tigers: 7-3, .271 batting average, 3.44 ERA, outscored opponents by 29 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Guardians: Erik Sabrowski: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gabriel Arias: 60-Day IL (hamstring)<\/p>\n
Tigers: Javier Baez: 60-Day IL (ankle), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Horn: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kenley Jansen: 15-Day IL (groin), Burch Smith: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (abductor), Brant Hurter: 60-Day IL (back), Justin Verlander: 60-Day IL (hip), Reese Olson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers (29-40, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (37-33, second in the AL Central) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,354118,4034,117619,212623,80590,5258,5260,118563,354119,248625,16063,52009,175779,13278,19620,33450,591,6784,253536,253526,21937,85,102028,6100],"class_list":["post-731641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-burch-smith","tag-casey-mize","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-erik-sabrowski","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kenley-jansen","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-parker-meadows","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-sports","tag-tanner-bibee","tag-tarik-skubal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}