The red hot Pittsburgh Pirates will have Francisco Liriano on the mound for a home stand matchup against the visiting San Francisco Giants Wednesday night at 7:05 p.m. ET.

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Drafted No. 1 overall in 2011, Gerrit Cole shined over 6 1/3 innings in his big league debut Tuesday as Pittsburgh (38-26) cruised to an 8-2 victory. Pedro Alvarez came up big with a two-run homer and three RBIs and Starling Marte also went deep.

"I couldn't have asked for anything better," Cole said. "The guys played great defense and we scored a lot runs. ... It's tough to draw it up any better than this."

Pittsburgh tries to keep things going behind Liriano (4-2, 1.75 ERA), who's allowed one or zero runs in all but one of his six outings while striking out 47 over 36 innings.

"For the most part, his best pitches have been offspeed," catcher Russell Martin told MLB's official website. "But he's used the fastball in normally breaking-ball situations. He's been pitching backwards, and it's been effective. Because hitters want to hit the fastball for the most part, anyway, and when you've got 94 (mph) they've got to honor that. So being able to throw offspeed pitches for strikes has worked for him."

The left-hander issued a season-worst five walks Friday but managed to limit the damage, scattering two hits and striking out eight over seven innings during a 2-0 road win over the Chicago Cubs.

"He's done this to everybody," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "When he's right and he has his velocity, he's basically in the CC Sabathia-type category where he has great velocity but really doesn't throw his fastball that much. He's got great command of his changeup and slider. He's one of those guys where it's very, very difficult if he's on with his offspeed stuff -- it's going to be a tough day."