{"id":754013,"date":"2026-07-17T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/754013\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:15:15","slug":"pirates-look-to-continue-win-streak-play-the-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/754013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates look to continue win streak, play the Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (50-47, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (51-46, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Jared Jones<\/a> (1-1, 4.37 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 39 strikeouts); Guardians: Gavin Williams<\/a> (10-4, 3.81 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 134 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -132, Pirates +108; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking to continue a three-game win streak with a victory over the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 24-22 record in home games and a 51-46 record overall. The Guardians have a 36-17 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 50-47 overall and 23-23 on the road. The Pirates have a 25-8 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> leads the Guardians with 11 home runs while slugging .448. Brayan Rocchio<\/a> is 12 for 37 with a double, three home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nick Gonzales<\/a> has a .308 batting average to lead the Pirates, and has 14 doubles, a triple and four home runs. Jake Mangum<\/a> is 15 for 40 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .232 batting average, 3.23 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Pirates: 7-3, .300 batting average, 4.65 ERA, outscored opponents by 24 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Angel Martinez: 10-Day IL (foot), Tim Herrin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Ramirez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n

Pirates: Konnor Griffin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Endy Rodriguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (lower body), Evan Sisk: 15-Day IL (elbow), Wilber Dotel: 15-Day IL (lat), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (illness), Spencer Horwitz<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Oneil Cruz: 10-Day IL (hand)<\/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 (50-47, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (51-46, second in the AL Central) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,6199,22912,6965,135,51,2565,11161,75686,2078,538,407,5627,865,9545,19,4,10608,64,950,8466],"class_list":["post-754013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-chase-delauter","tag-chris-devenski","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-williams","tag-guardians","tag-jake-mangum","tag-jared-jones","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-konnor-griffin","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nick-gonzales","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-spencer-horwitz","tag-tim-herrin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116934326566772431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754013","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=754013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}