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Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (72-73, third in the NL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (75-69, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Lake Bachar<\/a> (1-3, 3.59 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 80 strikeouts); White Sox: Davis Martin (9-6, 4.13 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 114 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -155, Pirates +125; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates hit the road against the Chicago White Sox looking to continue a three-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 75-69 record overall and a 43-29 record in home games. White Sox pitchers have a collective 4.16 ERA, which ranks eighth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has gone 34-39 in road games and 72-73 overall. The Pirates have the fourth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .253.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase Meidroth<\/a> leads the White Sox with a .269 batting average, and has 27 doubles, 12 home runs, 55 walks and 51 RBIs. Miguel Vargas<\/a> is 10 for 40 with a home run and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has 36 doubles, two triples and 16 home runs while hitting .268 for the Pirates. Esmerlyn Valdez<\/a> is 5 for 37 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 4-6, .191 batting average, 3.98 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

Pirates: 7-3, .269 batting average, 3.50 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: White Sox: Tommy Pham<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Huascar Brazoban: 15-Day IL (lat), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (hand), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Pirates: Isaac Mattson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Endy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Mitch Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (arm), Ryan O’Hearn: 10-Day IL (quadricep)<\/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":"Pittsburgh Pirates (72-73, third in the NL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (75-69, first in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,5343,1001,138,49,2561,11161,55483,75686,13960,99,5973,19,4154,6278,4163,4,64,8,396,2562],"class_list":["post-800462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-event_preview","tag-isaac-mattson","tag-kirby-yates","tag-lake-bachar","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-tommy-pham","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117240409868840928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800462","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=800462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800462\/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=800462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}