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Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (43-52, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies<\/a> (39-59, fifth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Denver; Friday, 8:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Brady Singer<\/a> (3-9, 4.72 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 76 strikeouts); Rockies: Gabriel Hughes<\/a> (0-0, 3.00 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, eight strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rockies -117, Reds -105; over\/under is 12 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Rockies host the Cincinnati Reds to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Colorado has gone 22-25 in home games and 39-59 overall. The Rockies have the fourth-ranked team batting average in the NL at .255.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a 21-24 record on the road and a 43-52 record overall. The Reds have a 19-12 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: T.J. Rumfield<\/a> has 20 doubles, two triples and 12 home runs while hitting .296 for the Rockies. Jake McCarthy<\/a> is 12 for 37 with two doubles, a triple and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Elly De La Cruz<\/a> has a .274 batting average to lead the Reds, and has 15 doubles, three triples and 15 home runs. Tyler Stephenson<\/a> is 12 for 34 with an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockies: 4-6, .248 batting average, 4.44 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

Reds: 4-6, .247 batting average, 3.70 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockies: Tomoyuki Sugano: 15-Day IL (back), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brenton Doyle<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Jaden Hill<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Seth Halvorsen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Blas Castano<\/a>: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Reds: Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Matt McLain<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Blake Dunn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Dane Myers: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Tony Santillan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds (43-52, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (39-59, fifth in the NL West) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,7026,15053,757,12054,1004,535,50,4259,52,1177,75686,16903,741,3917,19,1401,42377,4,536,1116,78580,12475,1868,56859],"class_list":["post-754053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-blas-castano","tag-brady-singer","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-hughes","tag-jaden-hill","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-mclain","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-reds","tag-seth-halvorsen","tag-tj-rumfield","tag-tony-santillan","tag-tyler-stephenson","tag-welinton-herrera"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116934621482258929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754053","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=754053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754053\/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=754053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}