Pirates play the Mets in series rubber match<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Pirates (58-61, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Mets play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.<\/p>\n
New York Mets (51-67, fifth in the NL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (58-61, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
Both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Mets are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 58-61 record overall and a 30-29 record in home games. The Pirates have gone 45-25 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n
New York is 26-33 in road games and 51-67 overall. The Mets are 11-20 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Sunday for the sixth time this season. The Mets lead the season series 3-2.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Gonzales has a .309 batting average to lead the Pirates, and has 20 doubles, a triple and six home runs. Brandon Lowe is 11 for 41 with three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Carson Benge has 15 doubles, three triples and 13 home runs while hitting .270 for the Mets. Francisco Lindor is 10 for 40 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 3-7, .231 batting average, 4.49 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n
Mets: 5-5, .221 batting average, 3.90 ERA, outscored by three runs.<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Sean Manaea (3-5, 4.33 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 95 strikeouts); Pirates: Jared Jones (2-3, 4.02 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 62 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
First pitch in Pittsburgh; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pirates play the Mets in series rubber match Pittsburgh Pirates (58-61, fourth in the NL Central) PITTSBURGH \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,101,4,292,10,776,64,4297,293],"class_list":["post-774199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117066046061558439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774199","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=774199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}