{"id":784450,"date":"2026-08-21T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784450\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:00:17","slug":"reds-visit-the-diamondbacks-to-start-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784450\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds visit the Diamondbacks to start 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (61-67, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (67-61, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Nick Lodolo<\/a> (3-2, 4.52 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 57 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Eduardo Rodriguez<\/a> (12-4, 2.71 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 106 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Diamondbacks -154, Reds +128; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks host the Cincinnati Reds on Friday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Arizona has gone 36-27 at home and 67-61 overall. The Diamondbacks are 22-9 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has gone 29-31 in road games and 61-67 overall. The Reds rank fourth in the NL with 165 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Friday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Corbin Carroll<\/a> has 26 doubles, 15 triples, 18 home runs and 57 RBIs for the Diamondbacks. Nolan Arenado<\/a> is 10 for 38 with a triple, four home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sal Stewart<\/a> has a .259 batting average to lead the Reds, and has 24 doubles and 27 home runs. Matt McLain<\/a> is 8 for 33 with two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 5-5, .251 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

Reds: 4-6, .194 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Ketel Marte: 10-Day IL (knee), Lourdes Gurriel<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (adductor), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Zac Gallen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tommy Troy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drey Jameson: 15-Day IL (hip), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Reds: Tony Santillan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Dunn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Steer: 10-Day IL (wrist)<\/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":"Cincinnati Reds (61-67, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (67-61, third in the NL West) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[13491,22,5,7026,7905,12054,535,50,4259,97,1538,756,75686,2102,1447,19,1401,4,1331,1028,536,655,5938,6513,30242,12475,86],"class_list":["post-784450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-blake-walston","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-eduardo-rodriguez","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-mclain","tag-mlb","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-reds","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-sal-stewart","tag-tommy-troy","tag-tony-santillan","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117132920322177188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784450","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=784450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784450\/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=784450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}