Tonight at 7:05 p.m. ET, the Arizona Diamondbacks (51-67) and Cleveland Indians (59-59) kick off a brief two-game series live from Progressive Field in Cleveland. The game can be live streamed for free here. Arizona fans can hear all of the action on Arizona Sports 98.7 while Cleveland fans can do the same on WTAM 1100.
Arizona jump-starts a 10-game road trip after going 4-6 on a 10-game homestand while Cleveland kicks off a five-game homestand after going 2-3 on its recent road trip.
The Diamondbacks enter play in fourth place in the National League West and are 16 games behind the division-leading Los Angeles Dodgers while the Indians come into Tuesday in third place in the American League Central, 5.5 games behind the first place Kansas City Royals and are five games out of a wild-card spot.
Josh Collmenter (8-6, 4.09 ERA) toes the rubber for Arizona while Cleveland counters with T.J. House, who is 1-3 with a 4.13 ERA this season.
Cleveland played small ball in order to snap a four-game skid by winning back-to-back games to take the weekend series from the New York Yankees in the Bronx.
"This was the first game where, if you kind of start stepping away and looking at it, it's kind of how we won our games last year," second baseman Jason Kipnis said per MLB.com. "A guy gets on, bunt him over. We started playing small ball kind of down the stretch last year."
Kipnis is hitting .251 this season with six homers, 36 RBI and 50 runs scored.
Cleveland will face Arizona's Collmenter, who is coming off of his seventh quality start but blamed himself for walking two batter en route to giving up the go-ahead RBI-single in a 4-3 loss to the Royals.
"The team gave me a chance, got back in it," Collmenter told MLB.com. "Went out to have a shutdown inning, got the first two guys, and then walked two guys and gave up a hit, and that was the difference in the game."
Indians outfielder Michael Brantley ranks third in the AL with a .324 average, 77 runs scored and 144 hits this season while pacing the team with 76 RBI. Carlos Santana leads Cleveland with 20 homers this season and leads the AL with 82 walks.
With Paul Goldschmidt (hand) out for the year, catcher Miguel Montero leads the Diamondbacks with 12 homers and 62 RBI thus far this season, though he is expected to have the day off.
The Diamondbacks and Indians kick off a two-game interleague series when they take the field against each other tonight at Progressive Field in Cleveland.
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