{"id":230918,"date":"2026-06-29T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230918\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:53:06","slug":"phillies-return-home-looking-to-finish-off-battle-of-pennsylvania-against-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230918\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies return home looking to finish off Battle of Pennsylvania against Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates, meanwhile, have no finalists for the starting lineup of the All-Star Game. Second baseman Brandon Lowe is having a strong offensive season with a team-leading 20 home runs while Nick Gonzalez and Bryan Reynolds led the Pirates with 86 hits each, but none of them received enough attention in the popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>While it would not be surprising if one of them makes an appearance on the All-Star roster as a reserve, it is more likely that Skenes, the defending NL Cy Young winner, makes his third All-Star roster on pedigree alone, regardless of his recent struggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates, meanwhile, have no finalists for the starting lineup of the All-Star Game. Second baseman Brandon Lowe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1423,28,30,29,8740,18203],"class_list":["post-230918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-mlb","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-phillies","tag-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230918","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=230918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}