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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (58-82, fourth in the NL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (68-72, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Thursday, 12:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Blade Tidwell (0-1, 4.54 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 31 strikeouts); Pirates: Jared Jones<\/a> (2-6, 4.83 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 83 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -162, Giants +132; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants are looking for a series win with a victory on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has a 35-33 record at home and a 68-72 record overall. The Pirates have a 33-17 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 58-82 record overall and a 25-46 record on the road. The Giants have the sixth-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .407.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Giants hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Gonzales<\/a> has 23 doubles, a triple and six home runs for the Pirates. Brandon Lowe<\/a> is 11 for 37 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> leads the Giants with a .282 batting average, and has 27 doubles, four triples, nine home runs, 26 walks and 50 RBIs. Rafael Devers<\/a> is 16 for 38 with six home runs and 13 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 5-5, .227 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 6-4, .268 batting average, 4.69 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Endy Rodriguez: 60-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

Giants: Adrian Houser<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Jesus Rodriguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Sam Hentges<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Casey Schmitt: 60-Day IL (leg), Carson Whisenhunt: 60-Day IL (elbow), J.T. Brubaker: 15-Day IL (ribs), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Willy Adames: 10-Day IL (back), Victor Bericoto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Keaton Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Daniel Susac: 60-Day IL (knee), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (leg), Matt Gage<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 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":"San Francisco Giants (58-82, fourth in the NL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (68-72, fourth 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":[11710,5,1751,75686,365,5627,16008,44621,375,40915,19,1248,379,12022,4163,4,10608,10,776,64,4297,863,12859,70335,9115,66,48585,72305],"class_list":["post-795538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-adrian-houser","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-event_preview","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jared-jones","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-keaton-winn","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-nick-gonzales","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-rafael-devers","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-sam-hentges","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-victor-bericoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117206247239251594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795538","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=795538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795538\/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=795538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}