{"id":680586,"date":"2026-04-21T21:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:22:55","slug":"reds-take-on-rays-lefty-steven-matz-on-tuesday-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680586\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds take on Rays, lefty Steven Matz on Tuesday in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cincinnati Reds are rolling at 15-8 on the season so far, mixing in elite bullpen work with timely hitting and just enough starting pitching to make the dominos fall in the right direction so far. Fresh off a sweep of the Minnesota Twins on the road, the Reds rolled into Tampa and took the series opener from the Rays on Monday in impressive fashion behind Rhett Lowder and Sal Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That means another win on Tuesday &#8211; this time with Chase Burns on the bump &#8211; would give them yet another series victory. On the road, at that!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Burns will share the mound with veteran lefty Steven Matz in this one. Matz is off to a solid start to his 2026 campaign, boasting his revamped mix of sinker\/slider\/cutter\/change to keep hitters off-balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Reds will roll out a righty-heavy lineup to counter him, including an all-righty outfield of Spencer Steer in LF, Dane Myers in CF, and Rece Hinds in RF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">First pitch is set for 6:40 PM ET. The full Cincinnati lineup is listed below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds are rolling at 15-8 on the season so far, mixing in elite bullpen work with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,79233,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-680586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati-reds-game-information","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-rays","12":"tag-tampa-bay","13":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116444802312804654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680586","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=680586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}