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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (94-57, first in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (75-76, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Logan Henderson<\/a> (10-3, 2.34 ERA, 0.78 WHIP, 99 strikeouts); Pirates: Jared Jones<\/a> (4-6, 4.10 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 100 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -140, Pirates +115; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates take on the Milwaukee Brewers after Rafael Flores<\/a> had four hits against the Brewers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 75-76 overall and 38-35 at home. Pirates hitters have a collective .401 slugging percentage to rank eighth in the NL.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee is 94-57 overall and 42-31 in road games. The Brewers have a 69-24 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the 12th time these teams meet this season. The Pirates have a 6-5 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has 17 home runs, 84 walks and 71 RBIs while hitting .264 for the Pirates. Flores is 15 for 38 with a double, a home run and two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Bauers<\/a> is third on the Brewers with 47 extra base hits (19 doubles, two triples and 26 home runs). William Contreras<\/a> is 11 for 42 with two doubles, four home runs and 15 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 6-4, .252 batting average, 3.58 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Brewers: 7-3, .299 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored opponents by 28 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Esmerlyn Valdez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Braxton Ashcraft: 15-Day IL (arm), Isaac Mattson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Endy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Mitch Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Bryse Wilson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Rob Zastryzny: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Grant Anderson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps), Brian Fitzpatrick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Quinn Priester: 60-Day IL (wrist), Angel Zerpa: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/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":"Milwaukee Brewers (94-57, first in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (75-76, third in the NL Central) Pittsburgh;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,127,136,60253,5343,755,11161,55483,75686,8570,13960,4364,5627,99,10679,19,843,59,4280,4163,4,64,83780,3801],"class_list":["post-806377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brewers","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-bryse-wilson","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-event_preview","tag-grant-anderson","tag-isaac-mattson","tag-jake-bauers","tag-jared-jones","tag-kirby-yates","tag-logan-henderson","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-rafael-flores-jr","tag-william-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117280246578754185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806377","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=806377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806377\/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=806377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}