{"id":34685,"date":"2025-05-17T20:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/34685\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:53:21","slug":"francona-opts-for-opener-against-guardians-brent-suter-will-start-for-reds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/34685\/","title":{"rendered":"Francona opts for opener against Guardians. Brent Suter will start for Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 The Cincinnati Reds will go with an opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Left-hander Brent Suter will start the game followed by Chase Petty, the originally scheduled starter.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuter has some rest,&#8221; manager Terry Francona said. \u201cHe&#8217;s the natural guy for that. If he gets rolling, he could actually pitch a couple (innings). We&#8217;re trying to balance winning and helping Petty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petty, 22, has struggled in his first couple of starts, allowing 13 earned runs with eight walks and three home runs over 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Francona believes the 2021 first-round draft choice of the Twins could benefit from fewer innings and side work with pitching coach Derek Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a whole week here for once, instead of just coming up here and pitching, and working on the side with DJ, that stuff all should help,\u201d Francona said.<\/p>\n<p>Suter is making his second start of the season and 46th of his career. He has pitched 21 2\/3 innings over 14 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 The Cincinnati Reds will go with an opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday. Left-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,1549,1418,535,50,4259,51,4,536,1175],"class_list":{"0":"post-34685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brent-suter","10":"tag-chase-petty","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-reds","13":"tag-cincinnatireds","14":"tag-cleveland-guardians","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-reds","17":"tag-terry-francona"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114525163204869147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}