Baltimore Orioles (40-48, fourth in the AL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds (40-46, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
Cincinnati; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Orioles: Trevor Rogers (5-7, 4.99 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Reds: Brady Singer (3-7, 5.12 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 65 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Orioles -124, Reds +102; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds host the Baltimore Orioles on Friday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati has a 40-46 record overall and a 19-22 record at home. The Reds have gone 28-6 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n
Baltimore has a 16-25 record on the road and a 40-48 record overall. The Orioles have a 6-13 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sal Stewart leads the Reds with 36 extra base hits (19 doubles and 17 home runs). Spencer Steer is 7 for 36 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso leads the Orioles with 34 extra base hits (15 doubles and 19 home runs). Taylor Ward is 10 for 42 with a double, two home runs and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 3-7, .225 batting average, 4.66 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n
Orioles: 4-6, .231 batting average, 3.59 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Reds: Brandon Williamson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Dane Myers: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Dunn: 10-Day IL (elbow), Tony Santillan: 15-Day IL (oblique), Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes: 10-Day IL (back), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Hunter Greene: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Orioles: Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yaramil Hiraldo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Chris Bassitt: 15-Day IL (back), Keegan Akin: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot), Felix Bautista: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Westburg: 60-Day IL (ucl)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles (40-48, fourth in the AL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds (40-46, fifth in the NL Central) Cincinnati;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[371,1558,43581,115317,376,2319,318320,61863,65965,37182,99198,108397,38789,255053,363,2008,9888,80665,102853,38177,99,79459,107058,92892,39122],"class_list":["post-740565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-brady-singer","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-colin-selby","tag-dane-myers","tag-felix-bautista","tag-graham-ashcraft","tag-hunter-greene","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-kebryan-hayes","tag-keegan-akin","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pete-alonso","tag-ryan-mountcastle","tag-sal-stewart","tag-spencer-steer","tag-sports","tag-taylor-ward","tag-tony-santillan","tag-trevor-rogers","tag-zach-eflin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}