San Francisco Giants vs Cincinnati Reds Prediction: Giants’ poor performance expected to disappoint them

Tuesday's Major League Baseball action from Oracle Park features a matchup between the Cincinnati Reds and the San Francisco Giants. In their most recent series, the Reds faced off against the Diamondbacks and ended up losing two of the first three games. The final game was played on Monday, and Cincinnati was defeated by a score of three runs. As for San Francisco, they just finished a series against the Atlanta Braves, which was their most recent competition. The San Francisco Giants were defeated in both of the first two games of that series, but they were able to take game three on Monday and win by three runs.

The San Francisco Giants suffered two crushing defeats at the hands of the Atlanta Braves over the course of the weekend, dropping both of their contests to the Braves by scores of 5-1 and 7-3. During the game on Sunday, Wilmer Flores of the San Francisco Giants hit a home run that drove in two runs. On Monday, the San Francisco Giants scored four runs in the fifth inning of a wild 8-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Austin Slater scored two runs for the winning team, and Patrick Bailey drove in three runs batted in. On Tuesday, Kyle Harrison will take the mound for the San Francisco Giants in the starting role. Harrison allowed two earned runs on five hits, walked one, and struck out five batters in his solitary start of the year, which was also the first start of his career.

Ketel Marte's three-run home run was a big factor in the Cincinnati Reds' 8-7 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday. The Reds had dropped the first two games of their series against the Diamondbacks, 3-2 and 10-8, respectively. The Reds were only able to muster four hits as a team in their final game on Monday, which resulted in a loss by a score of 5-2. Despite the offensive struggles, Noelvi Marte and TJ Friedl each contributed to the scoring by driving in a run. Andrew Abbott will take the mound for the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday as the team's starting pitcher. This season, Abbott has made 15 starts and has a record of 8-3 with a 3.16 earned run average. In his previous seven starts, Abbott has a record of 4-1 with a 4.06 earned run average. He has struck out 42 batters while pitching 37.2 innings.

I'm going to go with the Cincinnati Reds in this one. Recently, Abbott's performance on the mound hasn't been terrible at all. He has allowed seven earned runs over the course of his most recent 14.2 innings spread across three starts, during which he has collected 15 hits and four walks while going 2-0. Concerning Harrison, his first game, which took place on August 22 against Philadelphia, was full of highs and lows for him. In the second game, it will be fascinating to observe how well he does. In the decisive game on Monday, the Cincinnati Reds batting was relatively lackluster, and their pitching fell apart in the latter stages of the contest. However, the Reds scored seven runs or more in four of their previous five games, so I have little choice but to believe that the offense will bounce back strongly enough to give them a chance in this one.