Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Endy Rodriguez is not in the lineup for Thursday afternoon's series finale against right-hander Josiah Gray and the Washington Nationals.
Rodriguez started the first three games of the series and went 3-for-12 with a double, a walk, and 2 runs scored. Jason Delay will catch for Mitch Keller and hit ninth on Thursday afternoon.
numberFire’s models project Delay ($2,100) for 7.6 FanDuel points on Thursday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Pirates' implied total is 4.66 and the game total is 8.5. Gray is hiding a 5.14 xERA behind his 4.13 ERA this season, with a weak 19.5% strikeout rate and high 12.0% walk rate (bottom 8th percentile).
Source: MLB.com