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The Pittsburgh Pirates (11-6) take on the San Francisco Giants (8-12) in game two of a three-game series. Jameson Taillon will make his fifth start of the season tonight. His last home start was 17 days ago against the St Louis Cardinals when he allowed one run over seven innings. The Giants will send out veteran lefty Derek Holland, who has a 4.09 ERA, a 1.27 WHIP, with 27 strikeouts in 22 innings. He gave up four runs over six innings at home against the Colorado Rockies in his last start.

The Pirates have called up Cole Tucker and Bryan Reynolds, and both are starting today, with Tucker at short and Reynolds in center field. For more information on each player, check out The Book on Cole Tucker and Bryan Reynolds.

Here are the lineups:

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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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