Pittsburgh Pirates (58-62, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Miami Marlins (60-59, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n
Miami; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Paul Skenes (9-10, 3.96 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 162 strikeouts); Marlins: Eury Perez (5-9, 3.61 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 121 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Pirates -120, Marlins +102; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins host the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n
Miami is 60-59 overall and 36-24 at home. The Marlins have the seventh-best team on-base percentage in MLB play at .326.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 58-62 record overall and a 28-32 record on the road. The Pirates have gone 41-18 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Otto Lopez has nine home runs, 24 walks and 53 RBIs while hitting .318 for the Marlins. Kyle Stowers is 12 for 37 with two doubles, a triple, two home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brandon Lowe leads the Pirates with 51 extra base hits (25 doubles, a triple and 25 home runs). Jake Mangum is 12 for 38 with three doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Marlins: 5-5, .252 batting average, 2.62 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n
Pirates: 3-7, .223 batting average, 5.29 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Marlins: William Kempner: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Stowers: day-to-day (hamstring), Anthony Bender: 15-Day IL (shin), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Meyer: 15-Day IL (neck), Andrew Nardi: 60-Day IL (ribs), Ronny Henriquez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Pirates: Endy Rodriguez: day-to-day (hip), Oneil Cruz: 60-Day IL (hand), Mitch Keller: 60-Day IL (arm), Ryan O\u2019Hearn: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Konnor Griffin: 60-Day IL (finger)<\/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":"Pittsburgh Pirates (58-62, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Miami Marlins (60-59, third in the NL East) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,5,1751,11161,1072,407,1388,1816,1714,778,58,4171,4163,4,256,1330,1753,877,64,17453,7729,626,185,40190],"class_list":["post-775739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-eury-perez","tag-jake-mangum","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-marlins","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-oneil-cruz","tag-otto-lopez","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-robby-snelling","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-ryan-ohearn","tag-sports","tag-william-kempner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117076073077946276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775739","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=775739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775739\/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=775739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}