The Pittsburgh Pirates (7-4) take on the Houston Astros (5-7) in games three of a three-game series at PNC Park on Wednesday afternoon. First pitch is at 12:35 PM
The Pirates are sending out veteran Rich Hill (0-1, 10.00) for his third start of the season. He will be going up against right-handed pitcher Jose Urquidy (0-0, 3.86), who is also making his third start of the season.
Ji-hwan Bae will be making his first big league start at shortstop. He hasn’t played the position a lot recently, switching away from it completely in 2021, before playing 24 games there at Indianapolis last year. Including winter ball, he has 101 games at the position in pro ball.
Lineups can be found below
**Here’s a look at what is going on down at Pirate City now that all of the full-season teams are in action.
A total of 66 players are down in Extended Spring Training, doing rehab, staying ready in case they need to be used with a full-season team, or just getting ready for the Florida Complex League season.
** Today’s Prospect Watch has already been posted because we have two early games going on. Indianapolis had an 11:05 AM start time, while Altoona will be playing at the same time as the Pirates.
**Anthony Murphy has his daily morning article, looking at the how the Pirates are handling an early-season hurdle.
**Dylan Crews went 2-for-5, with two singles and a walk in LSU’s mid-week game at Tulane.
**If any other news pops up during the game, we will post it here.
UMPIRE SCORECARD
A solid job of umpiring yesterday. Got everything correct in the bottom 80% of the strike zone (and below the zone)
Umpire: Adam Hamari
Final: Astros 4, Pirates 7#Ready2Reign // #LetsGoBucs#HOUvsPIT // #PITvsHOUMore stats for this game
LINEUPS
Pirates
Series finale vs. the Astros.
Astros
Wednesday wrap-up.
