{"id":182050,"date":"2026-05-02T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:31:09","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-and-cincinnati-reds-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182050\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (20-12, second in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (17-16, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Rhett Lowder<\/a> (3-1, 3.18 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 25 strikeouts); Pirates: Carmen Mlodzinski (1-2, 4.13 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 30 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -138, Reds +116; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates host the Cincinnati Reds with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has a 17-16 record overall and a 9-9 record at home. The Pirates have the fourth-ranked team ERA in the NL at 3.74.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a 10-4 record in road games and a 20-12 record overall. The Reds have an 11-3 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Pirates lead the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan O’Hearn<\/a> has four doubles and five home runs for the Pirates. Nick Gonzales<\/a> is 17 for 38 with two doubles over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Elly De La Cruz<\/a> has a .273 batting average to lead the Reds, and has five doubles and 10 home runs. TJ Friedl<\/a> is 12 for 38 with two home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, .240 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

Reds: 6-4, .246 batting average, 5.83 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Jared Triolo: 10-Day IL (knee), Jared Jones<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Reds: Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Eugenio Suarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Hunter Greene<\/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":"Cincinnati Reds (20-12, second in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (17-16, fifth in the NL Central) Pittsburgh;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[81278,29827,81276,41988,56878,81279,31568,11199,57211,73,75,74,10997,81275,41208,81277],"class_list":["post-182050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-jared-jones","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-nick-gonzales","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-rhett-lowder","tag-ryan-ohearn","tag-tj-friedl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}