The Tampa Bay Rays will play the Cleveland Guardians in Game 2 of their series at Progressive Field on Wednesday night.
The Tampa Bay Rays are 85-69 this season and have lost two of their last three games. Tampa Bay won Game 1 of this series by a score of 6-5 in extra innings on Tuesday night. The Tampa Bay pitching staff has a 3.40 ERA, a 1.14 WHIP, and a .232 opponent batting average this season. The Rays offense has scored 649 runs with a .242 batting average and a .310 on base percentage. Randy Arozarena is batting .270 with 20 home runs and 88 RBI’s for the Rays this season. The projected starter for Tampa Bay is Tyler Glasnow, who is making his first appearance of the season.
The Cleveland Guardians are 86-68 this season and have won seven of their last eight games. Prior to losing Game 1 of this series, Cleveland won all three games in their series against the Rangers. The Cleveland pitching staff has a 3.52 ERA, a 1.17 WHIP, and a .231 opponent batting average. The Guardians offense has scored 664 runs with a .253 batting average and a .316 on base percentage this year. Jose Ramirez is batting .277 with 28 home runs and 119 RBI’s for the Guardians this season. The projected starter for Cleveland is Triston McKenzie, who is 11-11 with a 3.04 ERA and a 0.96 WHIP over 180.1 innings pitched this season.
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