Cleveland Guardians VS Chicago White Sox are playing their second series this week, as they face off in Cleveland.
Tonight’s pitching will be done by White Sox’s Dylan Cease (2-3, 4.8) and Guardian’s Logan Allen (1-1, 3.04). The first pitch goes down at 6:10 PM EST.
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Predictions and Betting Preview For Cleveland Guardians VS Chicago White Sox Regular Season
- Venue: Progressive Field, Cleveland, Ohio.
- When: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
- Time: 15:10
- Teams to play: Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox.
- MLB Expert Picks:
Odds by 1XBet and BetMGM.
Betting On The Cleveland Guardians
- 1XBet Spread: -1.5
- 1XBet Moneyline: 1.808
- 1XBet Over/Under: Over 8.5
- BetMGM Spread: -1.5
- BetMGM Moneyline: 1.75
- BetMGM Over/Under: Under 8
Cleveland will go back home, after a tough weekend in New York against the Mets. The Guardians lost the series opener in a walk-off on Friday night and following a rainout on Saturday, lost both sides of a doubleheader on Sunday by 5-4 and 2-1.
The series sweep demoted Cleveland 6 games under .500. On Monday night against the Chicago White Sox, Hunter Gaddis pitched 6 shutout innings permitting only 2 hits and 4 relievers to pitch 3 scoreless innings of one-hit ball to take game one of the series 3-0.
Mike Zunino delivered a big blow after hitting a two-run homer in the 7th inning to put the match out of reach.
Logan Allen will pitch for the Guardians in game 2 of this series. Allen is 1-1 in five starts so far with a 3.09 ERA. He conceded 31 hits in 27 innings of work this year. Last week against Chicago, Allen was 5.2 innings while forfeiting 7 hits and only one run in a 3-1 Cleveland win.
At home this season, Logan is 1-0 in 3 starts with an ERA of 3.38. He has allowed 20 hits in 16 innings at home and has a K/9 ratio of 9.0.
Betting On The Chicago White Sox
- 1XBet Spread: +1.5
- 1XBet Moneyline: 2.164
- 1XBet Over/Under: Under 8.5
- BetMGM Spread: +1.5
- BetMGM Moneyline: 2.10
- BetMGM Over/Under: Over 8
Chicago enters this series against the Guardians with 6 of 8 games won, plus a sweep of the Kansas City Royals over the weekend. They are under .500 but within shouting distance of Minnesota Twins which is the first position, with the entire division delivering a disappointing performance.
Monday night, the White Sox got the opportunity to make ground on Cleveland. But, their bats couldn’t keep up, they got only 3 hits in a 3-0 shutout loss. Four Chicago pitchers banded together to allow only 4 hits and 3 runs but the bats were nowhere to be found as they fell to 19-30 on the season.
Dylan Cease will be pitching for the White Sox today. Cease hasn’t been much of an Ace this season with a record of 2-3 and a 4.78 ERA in ten starts. He has 4 quality starts on the season plus his last outing against Guardians in Chicago. Dylan went 6.1 innings and permitted 3 runs on 5 hits. He struck out only 3 and walked 1 in the outing, leading to a 3-1 defeat for the White Sox.
The most alarming number for Cease this year is his hard-hit percentage. After hanging around the low to mid-30s in his career, he attained nearly 49% hard-hit percentage this year. Additionally, his strikeout percentage dropped to 24% after being over 30% in the last 2 years.
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MatchPlug Prediction
The Chicago White Sox will play their best game so far with 6 wins in 10 games, entering tonight’s opener against the Cleveland Guardians. They are hitting .252 against lefties this season and have an OBP of over .700 as a club vs. lefties.
Allen lives on the edge recently, giving up 15 hits in his last 10 innings of work. Cease has a 12.0 K/9 rate on the road this season and plays a Guardians lineup that is 29th in baseball in runs scored.
Cleveland has won only 3 of their last 10 games entering into the series opener, plus two of three to the White Sox in Chicago last week.
