{"id":766150,"date":"2026-07-31T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/766150\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:30:16","slug":"pirates-bring-3-game-losing-streak-into-matchup-with-the-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/766150\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates bring 3-game losing streak into matchup with the Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (55-55, third in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (51-57, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Friday, 6:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Paul Skenes<\/a> (9-9, 3.65 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 149 strikeouts); Reds: Hunter Greene<\/a> (2-2, 7.06 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 29 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -135, Reds +111; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates, on a three-game losing streak, play the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has gone 24-30 at home and 51-57 overall. The Reds are 24-13 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 26-27 in road games and 55-55 overall. The Pirates have a 40-17 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the 11th time these teams match up this season. The Pirates have a 6-4 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Elly De La Cruz<\/a> leads the Reds with a .279 batting average, and has 18 doubles, four triples, 18 home runs, 41 walks and 48 RBIs. Dane Myers<\/a> is 12 for 31 with an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nick Gonzales<\/a> leads the Pirates with a .316 batting average, and has 18 doubles, a triple, six home runs, 28 walks and 47 RBIs. Jake Mangum<\/a> is 13 for 45 with two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 6-4, .211 batting average, 2.83 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Pirates: 3-7, .223 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Spencer Steer: 10-Day IL (wrist), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Blake Dunn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tony Santillan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Pirates: Rafael Flores<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), Oneil Cruz: 60-Day IL (hand), Spencer Horwitz<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Evan Sisk: 15-Day IL (elbow), Konnor Griffin: 60-Day IL (finger), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (illness)<\/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 (55-55, third in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds (51-57, fifth in the NL Central) Cincinnati;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,7026,12054,6965,50,1951,1177,75686,2102,407,19,4,10608,877,10,776,64,4297,83780,950,12475],"class_list":["post-766150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-chris-devenski","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-dane-myers","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-jake-mangum","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nick-gonzales","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-rafael-flores-jr","tag-spencer-horwitz","tag-tony-santillan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117013893827214523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766150","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=766150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}