Cleveland Guardians (81-75, first in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox (84-72, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n
Boston; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Parker Messick (12-9, 2.57 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 186 strikeouts); Red Sox: Payton Tolle (9-6, 3.02 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 166 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Red Sox -131, Guardians +108; over\/under is 6 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox open a three-game series at home against the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Boston is 38-37 at home and 84-72 overall. The Red Sox have the third-best team ERA in MLB play at 3.59.<\/p>\n
Cleveland is 40-35 in road games and 81-75 overall. The Guardians are 27-9 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n
The teams play Tuesday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Caleb Durbin has 25 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs and 64 RBIs while hitting .255 for the Red Sox. Trevor Story is 12 for 37 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jo Adell leads the Guardians with 22 home runs while slugging .401. Travis Bazzana is 9 for 34 with four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 4-6, .218 batting average, 3.34 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n
Guardians: 7-3, .257 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Red Sox: Willson Contreras: day-to-day (hand), Anthony Seigler: 10-Day IL (wrist), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Ceddanne Rafaela: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Zack Kelly: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo: 60-Day IL (elbow), Eli White: 10-Day IL (foot), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Slaten: 15-Day IL (elbow), Eduardo Rivera: 60-Day IL (back), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Masataka Yoshida: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Guardians: Colin Holderman: 15-Day IL (wrist), Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Guardians (81-75, first in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox (84-72, third in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[352432,352433,352431,3979,64,63,12284,591,85],"class_list":["post-901287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-around-maine","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-maine","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901287","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=901287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}