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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (65-56, third in the AL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (59-64, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Jake Bennett<\/a> (7-5, 3.17 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 55 strikeouts); Pirates: Bubba Chandler (5-8, 4.26 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 103 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -142, Pirates +119; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates host the Boston Red Sox to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 59-64 overall and 30-30 at home. The Pirates have hit 149 total home runs to rank seventh in the NL.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 36-25 record in road games and a 65-56 record overall. Red Sox hitters are batting a collective .248, the 10th-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has 15 home runs, 74 walks and 63 RBIs while hitting .262 for the Pirates. Jake Mangum<\/a> is 11 for 39 with four doubles, a triple, a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> has 28 doubles, three triples, 16 home runs and 63 RBIs while hitting .288 for the Red Sox. Caleb Durbin<\/a> is 13 for 38 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 3-7, .233 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 5-5, .290 batting average, 2.87 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Endy Rodriguez: 10-Day IL (hip), Oneil Cruz: 60-Day IL (hand), Mitch Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (arm), Ryan O’Hearn: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Konnor Griffin: 60-Day IL (finger)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Garrett Whitlock: 15-Day IL (elbow), Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 60-Day IL (forearm), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Boston Red Sox (65-56, third in the AL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (59-64, fifth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,48,5343,3615,1396,75686,49841,407,5416,19,4163,4,10,776,64,4297,793,1946,15821],"class_list":["post-778379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-bennett","tag-jake-mangum","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-roman-anthony","tag-triston-casas","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117093059999418353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778379","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=778379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}