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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (66-57, third in the AL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (60-65, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Patrick Sandoval (1-1, 3.30 ERA, 1.70 WHIP, 29 strikeouts); Pirates: Lake Bachar<\/a> (1-2, 3.97 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 68 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -118, Pirates +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Red Sox are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has gone 31-31 in home games and 60-65 overall. Pirates hitters have a collective .411 slugging percentage to rank seventh in the majors.<\/p>\n

Boston is 37-26 on the road and 66-57 overall. The Red Sox are 47-9 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has 29 doubles, two triples and 15 home runs while hitting .261 for the Pirates. Rafael Flores<\/a> is 7 for 22 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 22 home runs, 54 walks and 65 RBIs while hitting .259 for the Red Sox. Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 12 for 45 with a double, a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 3-7, .241 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 4-6, .275 batting average, 3.40 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

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

Red Sox: Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (66-57, third in the AL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (60-65, 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":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,5343,1396,11161,75686,5416,5973,19,792,4163,4,64,83780,89,2543,793,1946,606,15821],"class_list":["post-780080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-event_preview","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-lake-bachar","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-rafael-flores-jr","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-roman-anthony","tag-triston-casas","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117104243103608431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780080","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=780080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780080\/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=780080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}