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Live Discussion: Pirates at Angels, 10:07 PM

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The Pittsburgh Pirates (49-69) take on the Los Angeles Angels (58-62) for three games, with game two tonight at 10:07 PM. They will send out Trevor Williams tonight for his 18th start. He gave up six runs over five innings against the Milwaukee Brewers in his last start. Williams pitched against the Mets in his two prior starts, allowing a total of five earned runs over 13 innings. He has a 4.17 ERA on the road this season, compared to 6.11 at home. The Angels will counter with 23-year-old right-hander Griffin Canning, who has a 4.76 ERA in 79.1 innings, with 86 strikeouts and a 1.20 WHIP. He threw six shutout innings in his last start, albeit against the worst team in baseball (Detroit Tigers). That was after facing the second worst team (Baltimore Orioles) and giving up five runs in two innings. His previous start was against the Seattle Mariners, which means that he will be facing one of the seven worst teams in baseball during four consecutive starts. Canning has a 4.33 ERA at home.

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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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