The Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2019 season began against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park, and today it ends against the Reds at home in PNC Park. Trevor Williams (7-8, 5.52 ERA) takes his final season hill for the Bucs, with Tyler Mahle (2-12, 5.34 ERA) going for the Reds after scheduled starter Trevor Bauer was scratched due to an unspecified illness.
Williams’s season, like seemingly most of the Pirates’ pitching staff’s, was marred by injuries; he missed nearly a month in the early going with a right side strain.