The Boys from the South Side of the Second City, the Chicago White Sox, are set to play host to the Cleveland Guardians for a four-game weekend series beginning Thursday night. Both teams have endured turbulent seasons to this point, and both are looking forward in hopes they can turn their season around. The Guardians come into Thursday night’s matchup with a record of 43-48. The team finds itself sitting in fourth place in the American League Central, trailing the first-place Tigers by a daunting 15.0 games. However, a recent sweep of the Houston Astros (with scores of 7-5, 10-6, and 4-2) hints that brighter days could be ahead. Logan Allen will take the mound for Cleveland in Game One on Thursday night in the Second City. The lefty is 5-7 SU with a 4.07 ERA and 1.43 WHIP across seventeen starts (84.0 IP). Allen is coming off a quality start versus the Tigers, where he allowed just one run on two hits over six innings or work. The Sox will send Jonathan Cannon to the bump with his 3-7 SU record and his ERA of 4.50 over fourteen appearances this season. Additionally, with a .466 expected opponent Slugging Percentage, a 45.3 Hard-Hit Rate, and 4.85 expected ERA, opponents are making hard contact and powering the ball against Cannon to easily drive in runs. Our TPR Index projects a run advantage of 1.43 runs. Coming into this game and situation, Allen has a rating of 98 while Cannon has a rating of only 86 with the league average of 100. The SIM Matrix has the Cleveland Guardians with a 73.97 percent advantage against the Chicago White Sox in tonight’s contest. Play AGAINST the Chicago White Sox when playing against a team that has a win percentage of just forty-six to forty-nine percent on the season because the Sox are a perfect 0-14 SU in this situation since last season. Play ON MLB road favorites coming off a win in which they scored in at most two separate innings and it is not the last game of a series, 337-207 SU (62%)(+$4,131). PLAY ON MLB Teams that are favorites of -125 or more after being favored in no more than one of their past nine games, 1067-697 SU (61%)(+$6,088). Play ON MLB favorites of -130 or more coming off a road game in which they had six or fewer hits, 730-428 SU (63%)(+$1,936). With the edge on the bump and at the plate for the visitors we will lay the number with the Guardians as they take the opening game of the series on Thursday night in the Second City. PREDICTION: 8* CLEVELAND GUARDIANS 4 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3