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The Pittsburgh Pirates (31-39) will take on the Miami Marlins (25-43) for three games on the road this weekend. The Pirates will send out Chris Archer this afternoon in the finale of the three-game series. He allowed seven runs over six innings against the Atlanta Braves in his last start. That came five days after he gave up one run over six innings against the Braves. The Marlins will counter with 23-year-old right-hander Sandy Alcantara, who has a 3.67 ERA in 76 innings, with 52 strikeouts and a 1.37 WHIP. He has given up just two runs over 18 innings in his last three starts combined. Alcantara has pitched much better at home than on the road this year, with a 37:16 SO/BB ratio in 44.1 home innings, compared to 15:20 SO/BB ratio in 31.2 road innings.

The Pirates added Yefry Ramirez to the bullpen today. Dario Agrazal has been returned to Indianapolis.

As a side note, Jacob Stallings is in the lineup today. Which means that he could finally get his 100th Major League at-bat (he’s at 97). Only took four seasons. So he should reach that 130 AB limit for prospects by the final game of the 2020 season at this rate.

Here are the lineups:

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John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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