The final week of the season will feature one of baseball's best power pitching matchups when the Cincinnati Reds host the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night in the second game of a three-game series.

The Reds will start Hunter Greene (7-4, 2.74 ERA) against the Pirates' Paul Skenes (10-10, 2.03) in a duel of right-handers.

Greene is coming off his first career nine-inning complete-game shutout in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday.

The 26-year-old Los Angeles native carried a no-hitter into the seventh and wound up allowing just one hit. He struck out nine, walked one and finished the game with his fastball blazing past Cubs hitters at 101 mph.

The Reds (80-77) could use another dominant pick-me-up after collecting just five hits during a 4-2 loss to the Pirates (68-89) in

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