Gameday 132: Pirates Travel To Kansas City For Three Games Against The Royals
The Pirates head to Kansas City for a three game series after losing three of four against the Cubs over the weekend.
After only winning three of their seven games played during their most recent home stand, the Pirates start a roadtrip that will take them to St. Louis to play the Cardinals, but not before playing the Royals.
Coming off getting outscored 20-7 over the weekend, the Pirates will send Johan Oviedo to the mound to face Zack Greinke.
First pitch of all three games in Kansas City is scheduled for 8:10 pm ET.
Recent Articles
This morning I wrote about some recent roster moves made by the Pirates throughout the system, including Bubba Chandler going on the Development List.
For our 10 observations this week, we took a look at, among other things, Hunter Stratton and some of the other Indianapolis pitchers.
Pitching Matchup
PIT - Johan Oviedo (7-13, 4.46 ERA)
KC - Zack Greinke (1-12, 5.34 ERA)
Pirates Lineup
CF - Ji-Hwan Bae
3B - Ke’Bryan Hayes
DH - Andrew McCutchen
LF - Josh Palacios
C - Endy Rodriguez
RF - Jack Suwinski
2B - Liover Peguero
1B - Alfonso Rivas
SS - Alika Williams
The Pirates lineup tonight has 8.3 WAR on the season. That has them tied for 11th all-time in franchise history among single season WAR for position players with Honus Wagner (1904)...wait, that's not how it works, is it?
The average MLB cleanup hitter has a .774 OPS. The Pirates? .630.