• Pham with his second hit of the night. One-out single to right.
• End of fifth inning: Contreras flies out to deep right.
• HOMERUN: Yelich crushes a 3-0 cutter that probably would have been ball four inside. Two-run shot. Yelich now with 13 RBIs over his last five games. Tied at 4-4
• Reynolds leads off the fifth with a double off the wall in right-center. Two hit night for him.
• End of fourth inning: Stratton strikes out Bauers swinging to keep the lead intact. Brewers make it a game again, though, with two runs on three hits and a walk.
• RUN: Contreras scores on a sac fly by Durbin. Pirates, 3-2
• Collins bloops a single into right to load the bases.
• RUN: Turang drives in Yelich with an RBI single. Fastball right down the middle in an 0-2 count. Pirates, 3-1
• Skies are getting dark and the roof is slowly closing here.
• Contreras singles to left.
• Brewers have had two baserunners tonight. It's been Yelich both times. He walks with one out in the inning.
• Stratton gets the fourth. First big-league appearance since May 1. That's it for Ashcraft. Man, he was really good today. Would have liked to see him at least get the fourth.
• That was Pham's first home run since Sept. 10 of last year when he was with the Royals. Came in a road game at Yankee Stadium.
• Cruz reaches on a two-out infield single.
• HOMERUN: Pham belts his first home run of the season into center. Two-run shot that followed a walk to Hayes. Pirates, 3-0
• End of third inning: Ashcraft continues to deliver. Still going right after guys. Induces a groundout, a flyout and a lineout to retire the Brewers in order. He's thrown first-pitch strikes to six of the 10 batters he's faced and has thrown 28 of 35 pitches for strikes.
• Bart looks at one for strike three. Second time he's gone down looking. Seven strikeouts through three innings. Gonzales stranded at first.
• Gonzales keeps the inning alive with a two-out single to right. Four multi-hit games in his last five.
• Patrick has struck out four of the last five batters he's faced after getting McCutchen and Reynold swinging.
• Looks like HunterStratton is warming up in the bullpen.
• End of secondinning: Ashcraft wins a long 10-pitch battle. Gets Durbin to swing through a 3-2 slider.
• Ashcraft is really going after guys. Attacking the zone and forcing hitters to beat him. Even most of his misses have been close. Strikes out Turang with three straight -- two heaters -- in the zone and gets Collins to ground out 4-3.
• Patrick strikes out Pham and IKF before getting Cruz to ground out 6-3. Pirates get runners on the corners with nobody out and have nothing to show for it.
• Horwitz goes first to third on a single by Hayes.
• Horwitz leads off the second with a single to right.
• End of first inning: Ashcraft gets Contreras to ground out 5-3.
• Yelich lines a two-out single to right in front of Reynolds. First pitch he saw from Ashcraft, who retired the first two batters 4-3 and 1-3.
• Bart down swinging to strand Gonzales at second.
• RUN: Gonzales drives in Reynolds with an RBI double. Pirates, 1-0
Nick Gonzales gives the Pirates the lead in the 1st with a RBI double!
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Brewers, 7:41 p.m. Eastern, Patrick to Cruz, 91 degrees, sunny, roof open
• Don Kelly’s starting nine:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Bryan Reynolds, RF 4. Nick Gonzales, 2B 5. Joey Bart, C 6. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 7. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 8. Tommy Pham, LF 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Pat Murphy’s Brewers:
1. Sal Frelick, RF 2. Jackson Chourio, CF 3. Christian Yelich, DH 4. William Contreras, C 5. Brice Turang, 2B 6. Isaac Collins, LF 7. Caleb Durbin, 3B 8. Jake Bauers, 1B 9. Joey Ortiz, SS
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José Negron
2:39 am - 06.22.2025MilwaukeeFinal: Pirates 5, Brewers 4
• Who: Pirates (31-48) vs. Brewers (43-35)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 80
• When: 7:40 p.m. Eastern
• Where: American Family Field
• Weather: 81°, clear
• Pitchers: RHP Braxton Ashcraft (1-0, 1.54 ERA) vs. RHP Chad Patrick (3-7, 3.50)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 181/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Brewers
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Final: Frelick flies out to Reynolds. . Pirates, 5-4.
• Ortiz strikes out looking. Two outs.
• Bauers replaced by pinch-runner Daz Cameron.
• Bauers walks.
• Call stands.
• Brewers challenging the tag at second.
• Durbin caught stealing as he came off the bag. Big break.
• Durbin singles to left.
• David Bednar gets the ninth up one run.
• Bart strikes out for the fourth time tonight.
• FIVE hits for Gonzales, double with two outs, his second of game.
• Reynolds strikes out.
• Looks like Bednar will get the ninth.
• Cutch strikes out looking.
• End of eighth inning: Mattson gets Collins swinging.
• Replay overturns call at first, Turang is out.
• Turang swinging bunt out front of Bart, Kelly is challenging.
• Contreras singles to left.
• 11-pitch at-bat by Mattson strikes out Yelich
• Cruz strikes out.
• Hayes and Pham each roll over easy grounders to Ortiz at SS and IKF walks.
• End of seventh inning: Mattson does the job, striking out Chourio
• Frelick gives it a ride to Reynolds, keeping him busy.
• Ortiz flies out to Reynolds and that'll end Shugart's night finishing with 2.1 IP, now Kelly calls on Isaac Mattson.
• Horwitz reaches on an infield single but Gonzales is thrown out at third. Wise play there by Turang. Ends the inning.
• First career four-hit performance for Gonzales. Another single.
• End of sixth inning: Shugart works around a single allowed to Collins to pitch a clean inning.
• IKF stranded at third following his one-out RBI triple. Cruz and McCutchen pop out to end the inning. Wasted opportunity to add on there.
• RUN: IKF plates Pham with a triple to right. Offense actually doing its job tonight. Pirates, 5-4
• Pham with his second hit of the night. One-out single to right.
• End of fifth inning: Contreras flies out to deep right.
• HOME RUN: Yelich crushes a 3-0 cutter that probably would have been ball four inside. Two-run shot. Yelich now with 13 RBIs over his last five games. Tied at 4-4
• Wow. Chourio lines one back to Shugart who makes the catch and throws to second to turn the double play.
• Frelick reaches on a HBP. Two on, nobody out. That's it for Stratton. Chase Shugart enters.
• Ortiz leads off the fifth with a single to right.
• Horwitz goes down swinging to end the top of the fifth. Career-high nine strikeouts for Patrick.
• RUN: Gonzales delivers with an RBI single into right, but he gets thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. Three-hit night. Pirates, 4-2
• Reynolds leads off the fifth with a double off the wall in right-center. Two hit night for him.
• End of fourth inning: Stratton strikes out Bauers swinging to keep the lead intact. Brewers make it a game again, though, with two runs on three hits and a walk.
• RUN: Contreras scores on a sac fly by Durbin. Pirates, 3-2
• Collins bloops a single into right to load the bases.
• RUN: Turang drives in Yelich with an RBI single. Fastball right down the middle in an 0-2 count. Pirates, 3-1
• Skies are getting dark and the roof is slowly closing here.
• Contreras singles to left.
• Brewers have had two baserunners tonight. It's been Yelich both times. He walks with one out in the inning.
• Stratton gets the fourth. First big-league appearance since May 1. That's it for Ashcraft. Man, he was really good today. Would have liked to see him at least get the fourth.
• That was Pham's first home run since Sept. 10 of last year when he was with the Royals. Came in a road game at Yankee Stadium.
• Cruz reaches on a two-out infield single.
• HOME RUN: Pham belts his first home run of the season into center. Two-run shot that followed a walk to Hayes. Pirates, 3-0
• End of third inning: Ashcraft continues to deliver. Still going right after guys. Induces a groundout, a flyout and a lineout to retire the Brewers in order. He's thrown first-pitch strikes to six of the 10 batters he's faced and has thrown 28 of 35 pitches for strikes.
• Bart looks at one for strike three. Second time he's gone down looking. Seven strikeouts through three innings. Gonzales stranded at first.
• Gonzales keeps the inning alive with a two-out single to right. Four multi-hit games in his last five.
• Patrick has struck out four of the last five batters he's faced after getting McCutchen and Reynold swinging.
• Looks like Hunter Stratton is warming up in the bullpen.
• End of second inning: Ashcraft wins a long 10-pitch battle. Gets Durbin to swing through a 3-2 slider.
• Ashcraft is really going after guys. Attacking the zone and forcing hitters to beat him. Even most of his misses have been close. Strikes out Turang with three straight -- two heaters -- in the zone and gets Collins to ground out 4-3.
• Patrick strikes out Pham and IKF before getting Cruz to ground out 6-3. Pirates get runners on the corners with nobody out and have nothing to show for it.
• Horwitz goes first to third on a single by Hayes.
• Horwitz leads off the second with a single to right.
• End of first inning: Ashcraft gets Contreras to ground out 5-3.
• Yelich lines a two-out single to right in front of Reynolds. First pitch he saw from Ashcraft, who retired the first two batters 4-3 and 1-3.
• Bart down swinging to strand Gonzales at second.
• RUN: Gonzales drives in Reynolds with an RBI double. Pirates, 1-0
• Two-out single for Reynolds.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Brewers, 7:41 p.m. Eastern, Patrick to Cruz, 91 degrees, sunny, roof open
• Don Kelly’s starting nine:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Nick Gonzales, 2B
5. Joey Bart, C
6. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
7. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
8. Tommy Pham, LF
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Pat Murphy’s Brewers:
1. Sal Frelick, RF
2. Jackson Chourio, CF
3. Christian Yelich, DH
4. William Contreras, C
5. Brice Turang, 2B
6. Isaac Collins, LF
7. Caleb Durbin, 3B
8. Jake Bauers, 1B
9. Joey Ortiz, SS
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