Cincinnati Reds vs Pittsburgh Pirates 8/21/2022 Picks Predictions

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The Cincinnati Reds will go against the Pittsburgh Pirates in MLB action in PNC Park, PA, on Sunday, August 21, 2022, at 1:35 PM ET.

The Reds are currently playing their ten-game road tour. They were 0-3 in their past ten games and dropped two of their three games against Philadelphia this week.

After dealing away some important players earlier this month, the offense suffered, and the pitching staff struggled all year.

The Reds are scoring 4.19 runs per game on average, which places them 22nd overall. With a 5.05 team ERA going into the game, the pitching staff is ranked 28th in the major leagues.

The series will begin with a start by Mike Minor. With four runs allowed in five innings against the Phillies, Minor struggled once more and was given another loss.

The seasoned left-hander is having a terrible season, going 1-10 in 67 innings thrown while compiling a 6.31 ERA and 1.51 WHIP.

Minor was 1-2 with a 5.19 ERA in six career matches against the rivals and gave up 4 runs on 5 hits in 6.1 innings against the Pirates in their lone encounter this season.

The total went OVER in 4 of Cincinnati’s previous 6 matches.
The Reds are 3-8 SU in their previous 11 matches.
Cincinnati is 2-4 SU in their last 6 matches against Pittsburgh.

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Cincinnati Reds vs Pittsburgh Pirates Predictions 8/21/2022

The Pirates now dropped their last four series. Before this series, they lost two of three to the Red Sox and were swept by the Giants last weekend. In the first game of the series on Friday, Pittsburgh came back to win 5-4.

The main problem recently was the pitching. The Pirates are scoring just 3.65 runs per game on average, which places them 28th nationwide. With a 4.61 team ERA, the pitching staff ranks 26th in the major leagues.

This will be Zach Thompson’s 23rd appearance of the year. In 0.1 innings pitched earlier this week against the Red Sox, Thompson gave up two runs.

The right-hander, whose ERA dropped to 5.51 with a 1.54 WHIP and a 3-9 record in 94.2 innings, is having trouble finding his rhythm after giving up 19 runs in his past 5 appearances.

In 21 innings pitched against the Reds throughout his career, Thompson is 1-1 with a 2.14 ERA. He shut out the Reds this season, pitching 11 innings without allowing a run.

The total went OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s previous 6 matches.
The Pirates are 2-7 SU in their previous 9 matches.
The total went UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 matches against Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Reds vs Pittsburgh Pirates. The MLB pick for this game is the Pittsburgh Pirates. When Mike Minor is pitching, the Reds do not have success. When Minor is pitching, they were only victorious once this year.

The seasoned player just can’t trick batters. In his last 18 innings of play, he gave up 13 runs, and Pittsburgh was able to get four runs off of him last month.

Pittsburgh is also competitive at home, where they are close to.500. They swept the Brewers at home two home series ago, and they won five of their previous eight matches at home.

In that stretch, the Pirates won five of those contests with a minimum of five runs scored. Last but not least, Zach Thompson, the Pirates’ starter, threw 11 scoreless innings against the Reds this year.

The Pittsburgh Pirates will win to a predicted score of 5-2.

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