Arizona Diamondbacks (56-52, second in the NL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (55-53, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 12:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Eduardo Rodriguez (9-3, 2.64 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 86 strikeouts); Pirates: Jared Jones (2-1, 3.72 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 53 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Pirates -136, Diamondbacks +112; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks take on the Pittsburgh Pirates after James McCann\u2019s four-hit game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 55-53 record overall and a 29-27 record in home games. Pirates hitters have a collective .337 on-base percentage, the third-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n
Arizona has a 56-52 record overall and a 25-30 record in road games. The Diamondbacks have the 10th-ranked team batting average in the NL at .242.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s game is the sixth time these teams square off this season. The Pirates are ahead 3-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Reynolds has 26 doubles, two triples and 15 home runs while hitting .269 for the Pirates. Esmerlyn Valdez is 7 for 32 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Corbin Carroll has 21 doubles, 12 triples, 15 home runs and 50 RBIs while hitting .251 for the Diamondbacks. Ildemaro Vargas is 15 for 36 with two doubles and a triple over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, .234 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks: 6-4, .292 batting average, 4.83 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pirates: Rafael Flores: 7-Day IL (head), Oneil Cruz: 60-Day IL (hand), Spencer Horwitz: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Evan Sisk: 15-Day IL (elbow), Konnor Griffin: 60-Day IL (finger), Chris Devenski: 60-Day IL (illness)<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks: Lourdes Gurriel Jr.: 10-Day IL (adductor), Zac Gallen: 15-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drey Jameson: 15-Day IL (hip), Tommy Troy: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Mike Soroka: 15-Day IL (lower body), Jordan Lawlar: 10-Day IL (hamstring), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryne Nelson: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corbin Burnes: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Martinez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks (56-52, second in the NL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (55-53, third in the NL Central) Pittsburgh;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[1118,13491,146,22,4314,5,5343,6965,97,1538,18794,38,9607,756,12671,16566,1198,5627,543,651,18402,5860,4,256,1330,64,16622,5938,950,185,30242,86],"class_list":["post-764413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-a-j-puk","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-chris-devenski","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-cristian-mena","tag-diamondbacks","tag-drey-jameson","tag-eduardo-rodriguez","tag-evan-sisk","tag-ildemaro-vargas","tag-james-mccann","tag-jared-jones","tag-jordan-lawlar","tag-justin-martinez","tag-lourdes-gurriel","tag-mike-soroka","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-oneil-cruz","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-rafael-flores","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-spencer-horwitz","tag-sports","tag-tommy-troy","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764413","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=764413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}