CHICAGO WHITE SOX NOTES:
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CINCINNATI REDS NOTES:
• This weekend, the 25th Flying Pig Marathon races will surround Great American Ball Park…the festivities kick off a 7:00 p.m. tonight with the Fifty West Mile…tomorrow’s races begin at 7:00 a.m. (5k, 10k, Flying Piglet, The 26th Mile, PigAbilities, Flying Fur)…the Full Marathon and Half Marathon begin at 6:30 a.m. Sunday…organizers expect 20,000 participants tomorrow and 21,000 participants on Sunday…when planning an arrival time at GABP tomorrow and Sunday, please know parking will be at a premium and access around the ballpark will be challenging.
• TJ Friedl and Jonathan India each has appeared in all 31 Reds games, and each has amassed at least 32 hits…Scooter Gennett (31g, 34h) was the last Reds player to produced those numbers, in 2018…Friedl and India comprise the first pair of teammates to produce at least 32 hits while appearing in each of the Reds’ first 31 games since 2013, when Jay Bruce (31g, 33h) and Joey Votto (31g, 35h) did it.
• RHP Buck Farmer’s next appearance will be the 300th of his Major League career.
TONIGHT’S GAME
• Is Game 1 of a 3-game series vs super fan Bob Rosenberg’s White Sox and Game 1 of a 6-game homestand that concludes, following Mon’s off day, with a 3-game series vs the Mets.
• The Redlegs are coming off a 3-3 road trip (2-1 at Oak, 1-2 at SD), the first of their 3 visits to the West Coast.
• Following this homestand the Reds hit the road again for 3-game series at Mia’s loanDepot Park and at Col’s Coors Field.
SERIES NOTES
• The White Sox won 21 of the previous 30 interleague games, including 8 of 14 games at GABP and 5 of 6 games at Cinergy Field.
• The teams are meeting for the first time since 2021, when the Sox earned a 3-1 series win with a 1-1 split at Great American Ball Park and a 2-0 series sweep at Guaranteed Rate Field.
• The Reds have won 2 of the last 3 season series vs WSox following an 0-6-1 start to the rivalry…Sox swept 3 of the 10 season series overall.
• Beginning in 2003, Great American Ball Park (4,212) and Guaranteed Rate Field (4,001) rank first and third, respectively, in home runs allowed by ballpark (Camden Yards 2nd with 4,092)…@EliasSports.
• The Reds beat the White Sox the 1919 World Series, 5 games to 3.
• Before the interleague schedule expanded this season to include games vs all 15 American League teams, from 1997-2022 the Redlegs went 188-
247 vs the American League, at .432 the lowest interleague winning percentage of any Major League team…in 2022 the Reds went 12-8 vs AL teams (0-2 vs Cle, 2-0 at Cle, 1-2 at Tor, 1-1 at Bos, 3-0 vs TB, 2-1 at NYY, 2-1 vs Bal, 1-1 vs Bos)…last season’s was their first winning record vs the American League since 2013 (11-9)…in the 8 seasons between the 2013 & 2022 season series wins, the Reds went 61-99 vs AL teams (.381).
METS UP NEXT
• The Mets won last season’s 6-game season series, 5-1, including their first sweep in New York since 4/25-4/27, 2016.
• Beginning 9/24/13, the Reds are 15-38 vs NYM, including a 14-game losing streak from 9/7/14 – 9/7/16 that ranks as Cin’s longest ever vs the Mets.
Tonight’s Pitcher – #21 Hunter Greene, RHP
• On 4/18 signed a $53 million contract through the 2028 season that includes for 2029 a $21 million club option and $2 million buyout.
• In just his second season, tonight is making his 31st Major League appearance and start…will be his first career appearance vs the White Sox…never has faced any WSox batters.
• Tonight’s will be his third appearance since 4/17, when he suffered a right tibia contusion on a Yandy Díaz comebacker…made his next appearance just 6 days later.
• Has allowed just 1 home run all season, a solo to Pit’s Oneil Cruz in the third inning on Opening Day…in his first 6 starts of his 2022 rookie season allowed 11 HR…enters tonight’s start with a streak of 25.0 consecutive homerless innings, the longest of his career.
• Was the Reds’ 2023 Opening Day starting pitcher.
• At age 23 years, 236 days became the first pitcher age 25 or under to start for the Reds on Opening Day since 1980, when at age 22 years, 232 days RHP Frank Pastore beat Phil Niekro and the Braves, 9-0… courtesy @EliasSports.
• Became the first second-year pitcher to start for the Reds on Opening Day since 26-year-old RHP Raisel Iglesias started the 6-2 win vs the Phillies in the 2016 season opener…courtesy @EliasSports
