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The American League Central leading Minnesota Twins (78-71) play game 1 of a three-game interleague series on the road Monday when paying a visit to the National League Central third place Cincinnati Reds (78-72). Minnesota's magic number to clinch the AL Central remained at 7 after losing to the Chicago White Sox 7-6 on Saturday. Cincinnati defeated the New York Mets 3-2 on Saturday and has won five of the last six. Cincinnati is seven games behind first place in the National League Central and is currently tied with Arizona for the third and final NL wildcard spot. Minnesota will play without seven pitchers as well as position players Jorge Alcala, Nick Gordon, Byron Buxton, Jose Miranda, Joey Gallo and Michael A. Taylor. Cincinnati will play without seven pitchers as well as position players Curt Casali, Matt McLain, Kevin Newman, Stewart Fairchild and Luke Maile.
The Minnesota Twins are in the top 10 of four major pitching categories. Minnesota is first in Quality Starts with 71, while fourth in WHIP at 1.20 and in batting average allowed at .237. The Twins have the 7th best team ERA at 3.92. Pablo Lopez is leading Minnesota in victories with 10 and in strikeouts with 221. Minnesota will hand the ball to Joe Ryan on Monday. This season the right-hander is 10-9 an ERA of 4.20 and 176 strikeouts.
Minnesota is performing better at the plate but remains without a number of productive hitters. The Twins have scored the 12th most runs with 701, while 21st in team batting average at .242, 13th in on base percentage at .323 and 10th in slugging percentage with .425. Max Kepler is leading Minnesota in home runs with 22 and Carlos Correa is the leader in RBI with 65. Players out injured fo r Minnesota have a combined 62 home runs and 142 RBI.
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