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The Pittsburgh Pirates (66-91) take on the Chicago Cubs (82-75) for three games at PNC Park, with the series finale taking place tonight at 7:05 PM. The Pirates will send out Joe Musgrove, who has a 4.49 ERA in 164.1 innings, with 149 strikeouts and a 1.23 WHIP. He has allowed two runs over ten innings in his last two starts combined. Musgrove has faced the Cubs three times this season and combined he has allowed two earned runs over 16.2 innings.

The Cubs will counter with veteran lefty Jose Quintana, who has a 4.55 ERA in 166 innings, with 148 strikeouts and a 1.36 WHIP. In his last three starts combined, he has lasted just 8.2 innings, giving up 14 runs. Included in that stretch was five runs over 2.1 innings against the Pirates on September 15th. Quintana has thrown shutout ball against the Pirates twice this year, and also allowed three runs each in back-to-back starts in July that consisted of 13 innings total. In his five starts versus the Pirates, he has a 3.38 ERA and a 1.16 WHIP in 29.1 innings.

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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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