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Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (20-13, second in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (18-16, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Chase Burns<\/a> (3-1, 2.65 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 39 strikeouts); Pirates: Braxton Ashcraft (1-2, 3.71 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 39 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -120, Reds +101; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates play the Cincinnati Reds after Konnor Griffin<\/a> had four hits on Saturday in a 17-7 win over the Reds.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 10-9 at home and 18-16 overall. The Pirates are 15-5 in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 20-13 overall and 10-5 in road games. The Reds have a 7-0 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Pirates are ahead 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan O’Hearn<\/a> has five doubles and five home runs for the Pirates. Bryan Reynolds<\/a> is 9 for 34 with three doubles, a triple, a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sal Stewart<\/a> has six doubles and nine home runs while hitting .260 for the Reds. Nathaniel Lowe<\/a> is 13 for 37 with three doubles and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, .264 batting average, 5.06 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

Reds: 5-5, .251 batting average, 7.55 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Jared Jones: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Reds: Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Eugenio Suarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds (20-13, second in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (18-16, fifth in the NL Central) Pittsburgh;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,12054,5343,708,535,50,4259,92,75686,2102,9545,19,4,495,64,536,626,6513],"class_list":{"0":"post-689114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brandon-williamson","10":"tag-bryan-reynolds","11":"tag-chase-burns","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-reds","14":"tag-cincinnatireds","15":"tag-eugenio-suarez","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-hunter-greene","18":"tag-konnor-griffin","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-nathaniel-lowe","22":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","23":"tag-reds","24":"tag-ryan-ohearn","25":"tag-sal-stewart"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116509806614095976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689114","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=689114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}