Seattle Mariners (40-39, first in the AL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (39-39, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pittsburgh; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: George Kirby (5-7, 4.10 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 79 strikeouts); Pirates: Mitch Keller (5-4, 4.92 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 65 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Mariners -126, Pirates +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates host the Seattle Mariners to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pittsburgh has a 39-39 record overall and a 20-19 record at home. Pirates hitters have a collective .335 on-base percentage, the fourth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seattle has an 18-20 record on the road and a 40-39 record overall. Mariners pitchers have a collective 3.63 ERA, which ranks fifth in MLB play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Lowe leads the Pirates with 18 home runs while slugging .509. Bryan Reynolds is 16 for 39 with four home runs and 11 RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julio Rodriguez leads the Mariners with 14 home runs while slugging .431. Cole Young is 11 for 39 with a double, two home runs and four RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, .270 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mariners: 4-6, .197 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Pirates: Jared Jones: day-to-day (arm), Oneil Cruz: 10-Day IL (hand), Chris Devenski: 60-Day IL (illness), Wilber Dotel: 15-Day IL (lat), Konnor Griffin: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mariners: Luke Raley: day-to-day (back), Carlos Vargas: 60-Day IL (lat), Brendan Donovan: 10-Day IL (groin), Randy Arozarena: 10-Day IL (leg), Will Wilson: 60-Day IL (thumb), Matt Brash: 15-Day IL (lat), Cooper Criswell: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seattle Mariners (40-39, first in the AL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (39-39, fourth in the NL Central) Pittsburgh; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: George Kirby (5-7, 4.10 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 79 strikeouts); Pirates: Mitch Keller (5-4, 4.92 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 65 strikeouts) LINE: Mariners -126, Pirates +103; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs BOTTOM […]<\/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-418132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418132","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=418132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418133,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418132\/revisions\/418133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}