After being off on Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers into town for a three-game series.
The Pirates took two out of three against the Boston Red Sox on the road over the weekend, just missing out on the sweep.
Carmen Mlodzinski will get the start on Tuesday, with Braxton Ashcraft and Paul Skenes following up the rest of the series.
First pitch is scheduled for 6:40 pm ET.
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Pirates Lineup
SS - Jared Triolo
2B - Nick Gonzales
RF - Bryan Reynolds
LF - Tommy Pham
DH - Andrew McCutchen
CF - Alexander Canario
1B - Nick Yorke
C - Henry Davis
3B - Cam Devanney
Dodgers Lineup
DH - Shohei Ohtani
SS - Mookie Betts
1B - Freddie Freeman
C - Will Smith
RF - Teoscar Hernandez
LF - Michael Conforto
CF - Andy Pages
3B - Alex Freeland
2B - Miguel Rojas
Pitching Matchup
PIT - Carmen Mlodzinski (3-7, 3.86 ERA, 84 IP, 74 K)
LAD - Clayton Kershaw (9-2, 3.06 ERA, 88.1 IP, 58 K)
Yesterday’s Feature
Hunter Barco takes on learning hitters
The 2025 campaign has been a breakout of sorts for Hunter Barco.
Today’s Feature
10 Observations: Live from Greensboro, Jared Jones power, Callan Moss, Pitching performances
I was in Greensboro all week to watch the Grasshoppers take on the Wilmington Blue Rocks (Washington Nationals affiliate). Well, the majority of the week, as I left Sunday morning, since that game was at night.
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Learning experience for Bubba. Really settled in. It’s why you give guys like him as much experience as possible at the end of a lost season and don’t cling to rentals like Heaney, IKF and Pham. Birdbrain never quite figured this out.
Flores and Babe Williams both went deep again.