The Pittsburgh Pirates take on the Chicago White Sox this afternoon in the deciding game of a three game series. The Pirates won their home opener on Friday, but lost yesterday in an 11-5 contest.
The bottom half of today’s lineup features four players with a strikeout rate over 30% in the young season. Rodolfo Castro picked up two hits yesterday, but is striking out 31% of the time. Jack Suwinski is at 35%, Ji-Man Choi is at 44%, and Canaan Smith-Njigba is at 62%.
The Pirates are going up against Michael Kopech, who struggled in his first time out.