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Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (61-68, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (68-61, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Saturday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Rhett Lowder<\/a> (4-8, 5.17 ERA, 1.49 WHIP, 82 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Mike Soroka (8-3, 2.93 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 88 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Diamondbacks -171, Reds +140; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n

Arizona is 68-61 overall and 37-27 at home. The Diamondbacks have a 30-11 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 61-68 overall and 29-32 on the road. The Reds are 22-14 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Diamondbacks lead the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gabriel Moreno<\/a> leads the Diamondbacks with a .308 batting average, and has 26 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs, 46 walks and 63 RBIs. Corbin Carroll<\/a> is 12 for 34 with two home runs and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sal Stewart<\/a> leads the Reds with a .259 batting average, and has 24 doubles, 27 home runs, 55 walks and 95 RBIs. Matt McLain<\/a> is 8 for 35 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 5-5, .272 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Reds: 4-6, .199 batting average, 4.90 ERA, outscored by 20 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: Mike Toglia: day-to-day (shoulder), 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 (61-68, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (68-61, 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":[2404],"tags":[13491,146,22,4314,5,7026,7905,12054,50,97,1538,38,75686,5993,2102,1447,19,1401,4,6967,655,5938,6513,30242,12475,86],"class_list":["post-785471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-blake-walston","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-diamondbacks","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-moreno","tag-hunter-greene","tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-mclain","tag-mlb","tag-rhett-lowder","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\/117139479123719315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785471","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=785471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785471\/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=785471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}