Giants @ Reds

Who will WIN this matchup?

San Francisco Giants (15-19)

@ Cincinnati Reds (14-20)

Starting Pitchers:

Pomeranz (SF): 1-3; 4.08 ERA

DeSclafani (CIN) 1-1; 3.48 ERA

Last 10 Games Played:

San Francisco Giants: 5-5

Cincinnati Reds: 4-6

Current odds:

San Francisco Giants: (+138)

Cincinnati Reds: (-148)

• The San Francisco Giants have enjoyed plenty of late-game magic recently and hope their latest dramatic victory can lead them to a series win when they finish a four-game series at the Cincinnati Reds on Monday afternoon. Brandon Crawford’s tiebreaking, pinch-hit two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning lifted the Giants to a 6-5 win in Sunday’s matchup after they fell behind 4-0 early. They’ve won four of their last six and each victory in that span has come by one run, three of them after the winning run scored in the final inning. “Today’s might’ve been better because we were facing a tougher pitcher,” San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy told reporters while comparing Sunday’s win to Friday’s in which his team overcame an early 8-0 deficit to the Reds before surviving a 12-11 affair in 11 innings. “It’s hard to say it was better than 8-0, but they battled and battled and got it done.”

• Cincinnati received home runs from Eugenio Suarez, Jesse Winker and Derek Dietrich in the first inning before fading while losing for the sixth time in its last nine games. The Reds will try to gain a split of the series behind surging right-hander Anthony DeSclafani, who opposes veteran southpaw Drew Pomeranz in the finale.

• Pomeranz has allowed three runs or fewer in five of his six starts, but he’s completed six innings just once in that span. He gave up three runs in four frames in a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday. The one-time All-Star out of Ole Miss tossed seven scoreless innings in his only previous start at Great American Ball Park back in 2016.

• DeSclafani is 1-0 with a 0.51 ERA over his last three starts, including back-to-back outings in which he has not allowed a run. The 29-year-old has 20 strikeouts while giving up nine hits in 17 2/3 innings during that dominant stretch. Brandon Belt is 4-for-6 with a home run and a double against DeSclafani, who dominated the Giants through 7 2/3 innings in a matchup last year but has a 6.89 ERA through three career encounters.

• Giants C Buster Posey had a three-run homer and scored twice in Sunday’s win and has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games.

• The Reds recalled 2B Josh VanMeter, who had 13 home runs in 30 games for Triple-A Louisville.

• Dietrich has four homers and eight RBIs through the first three games of the series.