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Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (33-28, second in the NL Central) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (27-35, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Wednesday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Paul Skenes<\/a> (6-5, 2.89 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, 75 strikeouts); Astros: Spencer Arrighetti<\/a> (7-1, 1.34 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 43 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -157, Astros +130; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates take on the Houston Astros after Jake Mangum<\/a> had four hits on Tuesday in a 10-6 win over the Astros.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 13-17 record at home and a 27-35 record overall. The Astros have the fifth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .243.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has a 15-13 record in road games and a 33-28 record overall. The Pirates have the third-ranked team batting average in the NL at .255.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Isaac Paredes<\/a> has 10 doubles, six home runs and 24 RBIs for the Astros. Yordan Alvarez<\/a> is 11 for 35 with a double and six home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Oneil Cruz<\/a> has 10 doubles and 14 home runs for the Pirates. Spencer Horwitz<\/a> is 12 for 38 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 6-4, .227 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

Pirates: 7-3, .271 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Braden Shewmake: 10-Day IL (groin), Joey Loperfido: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Lance McCullers: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Yainer Diaz: 10-Day IL (abdominal), Jose Altuve<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Hunter Brown: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Pirates: Konnor Griffin<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (foot infection)<\/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":"Pittsburgh Pirates (33-28, second in the NL Central) vs. Houston Astros (27-35, fourth in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,3616,13576,3225,6965,75686,1432,139,54,3211,893,407,817,9545,19,4,1330,877,64,766,4678,950,2264],"class_list":["post-716113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-chris-devenski","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jake-mangum","tag-jose-altuve","tag-konnor-griffin","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-oneil-cruz","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-spencer-horwitz","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116685409016035945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716113","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=716113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}