CLEVELAND (0-6) at CINCINNATI (2-4)Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBSOPENING LINE -- Bengals by 10RECORD VS. SPREAD -- Cleveland 2-4, Cincinnati 1-4-1SERIES RECORD -- Bengals lead 46-39LAST MEETING -- Bengals beat Browns 37-3, Dec. 6, 2015LAST WEEK -- Browns lost to Titans 28-26; Bengals lost to Patriots 35-17AP PRO32 RANKING -- Browns No. 32, Bengals No. 19BROWNS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (19), RUSH (11), PASS (22).BROWNS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (29), RUSH (27), PASS (26t).BENGALS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (12), RUSH (24), PASS (6).BENGALS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (15), RUSH (20), PASS (17).STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES -- Bengals have won last three in series by lopsided scores: 30-0, 31-10, 37-3. Win in Cleveland last December was Cincinnatis most lopsided in series and matched biggest margin of victory by either team. Cleveland won 34-0 in 1987 when replacement players were used. ... Browns are off to worst start since 1999, when they went 0-7 as first-year expansion team under coach Chris Palmer. Bengals are off to worst start since 2010, when they finished 4-12. ... Rookie QB Cody Kessler threw for career-high 336 yards and two TDs at Tennessee. Trying to join Brandon Weeden as only Browns rookies to throw for 300 yards in back-to-back games. Weeden did it in 2012. ... WR Terrelle Pryor tried out for backup QB spot with Bengals last year. He leads Browns receivers with 33 catches for 413 yards and three TDs. Hes also 5 for 9 for 41 yards without an interception, filling in as injuries depleted QB group. ... First of two games for Bengals vs. former offensive coordinators. Hue Jackson went to Browns in offseason. Bengals play Jay Grudens Washington team in London following week. ... Bengals Andy Dalton leads AFC with 1,757 yards passing, trailing Atlantas Matt Ryan (2,075) and Giants Eli Manning (1,788) for NFL lead. ... Dalton got sacked for safety in second half at New England. Hes been sacked 19 times, tied for second most in league. ... Bengals defense has allowed 14 TD passes overall, trailing Detroit (17) and Cleveland (16) for most in NFL. Last season, Bengals allowed only 18 TD passes in 16 regular-season games. ... LB Vontaze Burfict was fined $75,000 for stepping on Patriots RB LeGarrette Blount after Blount scored TD last Sunday. Burfict suffered ankle injury during practice Wednesday but is expected to play. ... Fantasy Tip: Dalton had career-best passer rating of 146.8 in win at Cleveland last December. In two games vs Browns last season, Dalton was 35 of 46 for 454 yards with five TDs, no interceptions and three sacks.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP-NFLCheap New Balance 574 .5 million, one-year contract on Friday. Hawkins, who turns 41 in December, will compete with Rex Brothers for the closers role at spring training. Cheap New Balance Sneakers . 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Victorino is batting sixth and playing right field after missing two games because of back tightness.WASHINGTON -- Struggling Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Jonathon Niese will try to get on track in the bullpen after being removed from the starting rotation.Pirates manager Clint Hurdle announced the decision to demote Niese to the bullpen on Friday before the team opened a three-game series at the Washington Nationals. Niese is 7-6 with a 5.13 ERA in 18 starts this season after Pittsburgh acquired him from the New York Mets for second baseman Neil Walker.We felt at this time to get him unplugged, to get a different look might help him moving forward, Hurdle said. We told him this wasnt a banishment out of the rotation for good. Were just unplugging him, putting him in the bullpen for right now, see where that can take us.Niese, 29, has allowed 20 home runs, struck out 71 and walked 36 in 101 2/3 innings. A groundball pitcher, he allowed 20 home runs all last season and is two away from tying a career high.Niese said he understood the decision but didnt expect it.Id rather start, obviously. Its where my hearts at, Niese said. I knew the rotation was getting pretty crowded. ... I knew something was going to happen. I was certainly hoping it wasnt me to get bumped. It is what it is. I understand the results werent there in the first half.During a radio appearance Friday morning, Pirates general managger Neal Huntington said in hindsight that taking two fringe prospects from the Mets might have been a better return for Walker than Niese, who has not worked out as planned.ddddddddddddGiven the thinness of the starting pitching market, given the dollars that we had available, we felt that that was our best return and it has not played out that way and thats a challenge, Huntington said on 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh. We own that. We accept that.Huntington said that based on the Pirates young pitchers hed potentially be interested in trading a veteran, which could mean Niese, fellow lefty Jeff Locke or both.One of those young pitchers is ready to return as Gerrit Cole will be active off the disabled list to start Saturday. Cole, 25, had been out with a strained right triceps muscle.Cole said he doesnt know if there will be any limitations on him in his first start back.Im just excited to not sit on the sidelines all of the time, he said. Im sure theyll take it inning by inning. See how the game is unfolding.Chad Kuhl is lined up to pitch Sunday, and Huntington said top prospect Jameson Taillon could get another start during next weeks series against the Milwaukee Brewers. ' ' '