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Miami Marlins<\/a> (34-35, fourth in the NL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (35-34, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Sandy Alcantara<\/a> (5-4, 4.33 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 64 strikeouts); Pirates: Braxton Ashcraft (5-3, 3.28 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 86 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -153, Marlins +127; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins seek to prolong a five-game win streak with a victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 19-17 in home games and 35-34 overall. Pirates hitters are batting a collective .254, which ranks fourth in the NL.<\/p>\n

Miami has a 34-35 record overall and an 11-19 record on the road. The Marlins have the ninth-best team on-base percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .323.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Lowe<\/a> has 16 doubles, a triple, 16 home runs and 45 RBIs for the Pirates. Spencer Horwitz<\/a> is 13 for 43 with a double, three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Otto Lopez<\/a> leads the Marlins with a .344 batting average, and has 18 doubles, three triples, five home runs, 10 walks and 30 RBIs. Heriberto Hernandez<\/a> is 10 for 31 with three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, .255 batting average, 5.97 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 8-2, .245 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Endy Rodriguez: day-to-day (hip), Konnor Griffin: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Oneil Cruz: 10-Day IL (hand), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (illness), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (foot infection)<\/p>\n

Marlins: Josh Ekness: 15-Day IL (calf), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Griffin Conine: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Janson Junk: 15-Day IL (shin), Eury Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (gracilis), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/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":"Miami Marlins (34-35, fourth in the NL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (35-34, third in the NL Central) Pittsburgh;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[24644,8217,5,1751,6965,1072,75686,17906,19,58,4,1753,10,776,64,4297,7729,3480,950],"class_list":["post-723891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-chris-devenski","tag-eury-perez","tag-event_preview","tag-heriberto-hernandez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-otto-lopez","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-sandy-alcantara","tag-spencer-horwitz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116736499592299508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723891","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=723891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723891\/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=723891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}