San Diego Padres (5-6, fourth in the NL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (7-4, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 12:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Michael King (0-1, 3.37 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 11 strikeouts); Pirates: Mitch Keller (1-0, 1.50 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, seven strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Pirates -110, Padres -109; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Diego Padres are looking for a series win with a victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh has a 4-1 record in home games and a 7-4 record overall. The Pirates have the fourth-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .340.<\/p>\n San Diego has a 3-2 record on the road and a 5-6 record overall. The Padres have a 4-1 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s game is the third time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan O\u2019Hearn has two doubles, three home runs and 11 RBIs for the Pirates. Oneil Cruz is 12 for 39 with a double, four home runs and 12 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Ramon Laureano leads the Padres with two home runs while slugging .425. Jackson Merrill is 9 for 40 with two home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 7-3, .246 batting average, 2.47 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n Padres: 5-5, .215 batting average, 3.58 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Pirates: Jared Triolo: 10-Day IL (knee), Jared Jones: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Padres: Bryan Hoeing: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jason Adam: 15-Day IL (quadricep), Yuki Matsui: 15-Day IL (groin), Matt Waldron: 15-Day IL (lower body), Joe Musgrove: 15-Day IL (elbow), Griffin Canning: 15-Day IL (achilles), Will Wagner: 10-Day IL (oblique), Sung-Mun Song: 10-Day IL (oblique), Jhony Brito: 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":"San Diego Padres (5-6, fourth in the NL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (7-4, third in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,783,2178,13379,98,871,5627,7884,3919,2285,1531,2282,87,4163,4,256,1330,1727,43,3838,64,1495,626,137,18,4339,4338,185,1276,7941],"class_list":{"0":"post-669950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bryan-hoeing","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-data-skrive","12":"tag-griffin-canning","13":"tag-jackson-merrill","14":"tag-jared-jones","15":"tag-jared-triolo","16":"tag-jason-adam","17":"tag-jhony-brito","18":"tag-joe-musgrove","19":"tag-matt-waldron","20":"tag-michael-king","21":"tag-mitch-keller","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-mlb-baseball","24":"tag-oneil-cruz","25":"tag-pa-state-wire","26":"tag-padres","27":"tag-pennsylvania","28":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","29":"tag-ramon-laureano","30":"tag-ryan-ohearn","31":"tag-san-diego","32":"tag-san-diego-padres","33":"tag-sandiego","34":"tag-sandiegopadres","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-will-wagner","37":"tag-yuki-matsui"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116368331492093780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669950","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=669950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}