The AL Wild Card is up for grabs today as Minnesota travels to Chicago with the two teams separated by 1/2 game in the wild card race. Brad Radke takes the mound for the Twins against Javier Vazquez. While Radke gives up about a hit an inning at home, that goes up by nearly 50% on the road. The Twins dominated Vazquez so far this year, as he's posted a 7.71 ERA against Minnesota. Twenty-five hits allowed in 18 2/3 innings led to 17 runs scored.

The Padres pulled themselves back into the NL West race with a sweep of the Dodgers, and now it's the Diamondbacks turn. Greg Maddux faces Claudio Vargas in the first of a three game series. In four starts for the Dodgers since the trade, opponents collected just 15 hits off Greg in 26 innings. A win tonight gives him 330 for his career and puts him 130 games over .500. Vargas is showing good control lately, allowing just 4 walks in his last 23 1/3 innings.

Aaron Harang leads the Reds against the Giants with a win giving them a chance to move into first place in the NL Central. Harang's been a true road warrior this season, posting a 2.76 ERA and allowing just five homers in 91 1/3 innings. He'll be opposed by Matt Morris. Matt is getting hammered with men on base this year, allowing 11 of his 18 homers in that situation to go along with a .302 batting average against.

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