Getting out of their first loss and the worst outing of the season, veteran -right -handed Sunny will try to keep the recent role of Gray St. Louis Cardinals, when they host Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday afternoon.
Cardinals are targeting for three-game sweeps and looking at their season-high winning streak in five matches. Gray (3–1, 4.12 ERA) will oppose the right-handed Mich Keller (1-3, 4.38), which will try to snap the seasons of the pirates-hai-hai six-game losing.
Gray conceded six runs against New York Met’s last Friday. This included a season-hai nine hits permission and four earned runs on three walks. Gray hit six, but ended his start after a season-less 4 1/3 innings, when he surrendered the two-run domestic run to Pete Alonso.
“I think I was probably trying to be very cute in that one,” Gray said. “But I said something that is not normally what I will do, maybe trying to overthrow it, or doing something, and it was not right.”
Gray’s 29 strikeouts and only four walks in their first five were one of the best in baseball in this season. But his effectiveness has decreased slightly in his two most recent outings; He has gone out of 10 to walk six on foot.
“You try to limit damage, no one gives no free pass,” Gray said. “I don’t think I have done one of them.”
Gray 12 Career has 6-4 with 4.02 ERA and 13 overall appearances against pirates.
Keller also struggled a bit in her most recent outing, tossed five innings and allowed five runs (four acquired) on eight hits, including a domestic run. Keller released a walk and hit San Diego Padress three in a 9–4 defeat on Friday.
“In addition to the home run, I left the broken bat single, weak contact, a flock of a double down line,” said Keller. “I am not very upset about it. I am upset that we lost, but I am not very angry about where I am throwing the ball.”
Keller is 2-3 with 3.38 ERAs in 14 careers and begins against cardinals and starts 2–2 with a 3.62 ERA, begins at the Besk Stadium in seven of them. He has been solid many times this season, but is not always dominating.
And this is something that pirates are forcing their early rotation to be due to their lack of crime.
Pittsburgh entered the game of Wednesday, with the second first runs in Major (118) only behind 106 in Colorado.
K’Brian Hayes, who recorded a hit of his 500th career on Tuesday and went into the loan run with a double in the sixth innings, said the team would have to find a way to score more runs.
Hayes said after Tuesday’s loss, “not only for (Keller), only for everyone. Pichers – starters and bullpen – they are really a good job and we just pick them up and score,” Hayes said after Tuesday’s loss. “Although this can happen, whether it is going on, that big hit, we will just find a way. They are doing really good work to take us, so we can just find out how to raise them.”
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