Pittsburgh Pirates (21-36, fifth in the NL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (31-23, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n
San Diego; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Mitch Keller (1-6, 3.66 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 55 strikeouts); Padres: Nick Pivetta (5-2, 2.72 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 63 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Padres -198, Pirates +164; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres host the Pittsburgh Pirates to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n San Diego has an 18-9 record at home and a 31-23 record overall. The Padres have a 19-3 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh has gone 8-20 in road games and 21-36 overall. The Pirates are 13-7 in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n Friday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Fernando Tatis Jr. has seven doubles, a triple and 13 home runs for the Padres. Manny Machado is 11 for 40 with two doubles, three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Adam Frazier leads the Pirates with a .255 batting average, and has seven doubles, two home runs, 15 walks and 14 RBIs. Isiah Kiner-Falefa is 13 for 36 with five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 4-6, .215 batting average, 4.69 ERA, outscored by 25 runs<\/p>\n Pirates: 6-4, .267 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Padres: Michael King: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jason Heyward: 10-Day IL (oblique), Mason McCoy: 10-Day IL (finger), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Logan Gillaspie: 15-Day IL (oblique ), Matt Waldron: 60-Day IL (oblique), Jhony Brito: 60-Day IL (forearm), Yu Darvish: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Pirates: Joey Bart: 7-Day IL (concussion), Colin Holderman: 15-Day IL (thumb), Nick Gonzales: 60-Day IL (ankle), Enmanuel Valdez: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Lawrence: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tim Mayza: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jared Jones: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dauri Moreta: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates (21-36, fifth in the NL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (31-23, second in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[8007,5,783,12858,5419,1148,920,2057,5627,873,2285,1531,4680,5416,308,785,1527,1366,2282,87,4163,4,10608,45,43,64,137,18,4339,4338,364,1536],"class_list":{"0":"post-65776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-adam-frazier","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bryan-hoeing","11":"tag-colin-holderman","12":"tag-dauri-moreta","13":"tag-enmanuel-valdez","14":"tag-fernando-tatis-jr","15":"tag-isiah-kiner-falefa","16":"tag-jared-jones","17":"tag-jason-heyward","18":"tag-jhony-brito","19":"tag-joe-musgrove","20":"tag-joey-bart","21":"tag-johan-oviedo","22":"tag-justin-lawrence","23":"tag-logan-gillaspie","24":"tag-manny-machado","25":"tag-mason-mccoy","26":"tag-matt-waldron","27":"tag-michael-king","28":"tag-mitch-keller","29":"tag-mlb","30":"tag-nick-gonzales","31":"tag-nick-pivetta","32":"tag-padres","33":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","34":"tag-san-diego","35":"tag-san-diego-padres","36":"tag-sandiego","37":"tag-sandiegopadres","38":"tag-tim-mayza","39":"tag-yu-darvish"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114595788572319901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65776","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=65776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}