The Pittsburgh Pirates face the San Diego Padres with both teams looking to improve on rough seasons. The Pirates have a 43-55 record and with only three wins in their last 10 games, they have fallen into last place in the National League Central Division. The Padres have a 48-52 record and are in fourth place in the National League West Division. For the upcoming game, the Pirates will turn to Quinn Priester as their starting pitcher while the Padres will turn to Yu Darvish, who has allowed only one run in the last two starts.
The Pirates are having a season to forget and hope to avoid finishing in last place in the division. The team will turn to Quinn Priester as their starting pitcher who is one of their top pitching prospects but has only started one game this year. The hope is that he rebounds from his previous outing as he allowed seven runs and seven hits in only 5.1 innings pitched.
Priester hopes to step up and help out a lineup that has been one of the worst in baseball, scoring only 4.12 runs per game. Jack Suwinski is slashing .225/.347/.500 with 20 home runs and 131 total bases while Andrew McCutchen is slashing .266/.377/.417 with 10 home runs and 116 total bases but the rest of the lineup has struggled. Only two batters have 10 home runs or more while only four have an OPS+ over 100 and opposing pitchers can eliminate the struggling lineup as a result.