Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0(36-37, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Athletics (36-36, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
West Sacramento, California; Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates:\u00a0Mitch Keller\u00a0(5-4, 5.14 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 58 strikeouts); Athletics:\u00a0Jack Perkins\u00a0(2-3, 6.25 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 43 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Athletics -137, Pirates +113; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates will aim to stop a four-game road losing streak when they take on the Athletics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Athletics are 36-36 overall and 16-19 at home. Athletics hitters have a collective .331 on-base percentage, the sixth-best percentage in MLB play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pittsburgh has gone 16-18 in road games and 36-37 overall. The Pirates have hit 86 total home runs to rank sixth in the NL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The matchup Tuesday is the second meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS:\u00a0Tyler Soderstrom\u00a0has 19 doubles, two triples and 12 home runs for the Athletics.\u00a0Nick Kurtz\u00a0is 13 for 38 with a double and seven home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spencer Horwitz\u00a0has nine doubles, a triple and nine home runs for the Pirates.\u00a0Bryan Reynolds\u00a0is 10 for 37 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 6-4, .289 batting average, 6.92 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pirates: 2-8, .225 batting average, 6.07 ERA, outscored by 32 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Athletics: Luis Severino: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Aaron Civale: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot),\u00a0Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pirates: Wilber Dotel: 15-Day IL (the pittsburgh pirates placed rhp wilber dotel on the 15-day injured list.),\u00a0Konnor Griffin: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon),\u00a0Oneil Cruz: 10-Day IL (hand),\u00a0Chris Devenski: 60-Day IL (illness),\u00a0Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (foot infection)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0(36-37, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Athletics (36-36, second in the AL West) West Sacramento, California; Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates:\u00a0Mitch Keller\u00a0(5-4, 5.14 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 58 strikeouts); Athletics:\u00a0Jack Perkins\u00a0(2-3, 6.25 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 43 strikeouts) LINE: Athletics -137, Pirates +113; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416414,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416413\/revisions\/416414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}