• FINAL: Bednar closes out the 23rd win on the season to even the series with Houston 1-1 as Meyers drives a deep fly out that is hauled in by Cruz. Bednar's 7th save on the season.
• Bednar comes back to get Caratini on the strike out.
• Diaz hits a single to left field.
• Bednar starts the inning clean striking out Walker.
• David Bednar gets the call from the pen to begin the ninth inning.
• End of eighth inning: Horwitz leads off the bottom of the eighth with a high inside fastball to go down swinging. Hayes flies out down the RF line in foul territory. Frazier lines out to Meyers in center.
• Bennett Sousa replaces Bryan King.
• Ashcraft comes backout for the eighth to get Pena on fly out to CF, struck out Paredes, and Altuve flies out to Reynolds in RF.
• End of seventh inning: Cruz foul tip strikeout, McCutchen pop out to SS, and Reynolds strikes out on a foul tip.
• Ashcraft strikes out Smith and Melton to finish off a clean seventh.
• Ashcraft gets Caratini to fly out to left before allowing a one-out single to Meyers.
• Braxton Ashcraft gets the seventh.
• End of sixth inning: Pham and Rodriguez fly out and IKF down swinging.
• Shugart strikes out Walker and gets Diaz to ground out 5-3. Preserves a scoreless performance for Burrows.
• Shugart walks Altuve on four pitches.
• Burrows threw 70 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He's responsible for that runner at second, but he allowed five hits, didn't walk a batter and struck out six.
• Paredes lines out to left and that's going to be it for Burrows. He exits to a nice ovation from the crowd. ChaseShugart enters.
• Pena leads off the sixth with a double off the left-field wall. A 3-0 fastball that barely caught the top of the zone.
• End of fifth inning: That was quick. Okert throws one pitch and gets Frazier to roll into a 4-6-3 double play.
• That's going to be it for Gusto. StevenOkert enters.
• Hayes pops out to second.
• Leadoff single for Reynolds and an opposite-field single for Horwitz.
• Five scoreless innings for Burrows, who is now at 63 pitches. Induced two groundouts and picked up his sixth strikeout of the night to end the fifth. Changeup really working for Burrows. He's generated six whiffs in turning to that pitch 17 times.
• End of fourth inning: McCutchen strikes out on a check swing. Cruz stranded at third.
• Cruz with his second stolen base of the night. Swiped third, there was a throw and no one was covering the bag. Easy.
• Cruz sends a two-out double out near the notch. Followed two hard-hit outs by Rodriguez and IKF.
• Burrows gets Caratini looking with a fastball on the inner third to end the top of the fourth. He's up to five strikeouts and 51 pitches over four innings. He hasn't thrown more than 14 pitches in an inning so far.
• Diaz singles past the glove of IKF at short.
• Altuve erased on a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Walker.
• Leadoff single to left for Altuve.
• End of third inning: Pham pops out to short.
• RUN: The runs haven't been pretty, but they still count. Horwitz scores on a 4-6-3 double play off the bat of Frazier. Pirates, 3-0
• Hayes adds a single to right, allowing Horwitz to get to third. Runners on the corners with nobody out.
• Horwitz bloops a leadoff single into center. He's now reached twice tonight.
• Burrows picks up another strikeout of Melton, gets Smith to fly out and overcomes a two-out single allowed to Pena by getting Paredes to ground out. Burrows really effective over three scoreless. He's at 39 pitches.
• End of second inning: Reynolds goes down swinging. Pirates get two runs on three hits.
• RUN: Rodriguez scores on a sac fly by McCutchen. Pirates, 2-0
• Cruz swipes second.
• Infield single for Cruz. Runners on the corners with one out for Cutch.
• RUN: Pham scores from third on a 6-3 groundout. RBI for IKF. Pirates, 1-0
• Call is reversed. Pham reaches on an infield single.
• Looks to me like he beat out the throw.
• Pham called out at first on a bang-bang play. Pirates are challenging.
• Burrows leaves Caratini at second. Meyers grounds out to short to end the second. Burrows sitting at 25 pitches through two innings. Leaning heavily on his fastball (12 times) and slider (8) so far today.
• Burrows gets Walker swinging and Diaz to ground out to third before allowing a two-out double to Caratini. Got behind 2-1 and left a fastball on the outer third.
• Endfirstinning: Frazier grounds out 5-3 to strand the bases loaded.
• Hayes HBP loads the bases for Frazier.
• Horwitz walks on four pitches. Two on for Hayes.
• Pirates get a two-out baserunner in the bottom half of the first on a walk to Reynolds.
• Burrows gets through a clean first inning on 13 pitches. Struck out Pena swinging and Paredes looking. Had to work for the Pena strikeout. Was down 3-0 before rallying back. Rodriguez had to squeeze a foul tip to finish it. Altuve flied out to end the inning.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Astros, 6:41 p.m., Burrows to Pena, 86 degrees, sunny
• Don Kelly’s starting nine:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Bryan Reynolds, RF 4. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 5. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 6. Adam Frazier, 2B 7. Tommy Pham, LF 8. Endy Rodriguez, C 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Joe Espada's Astros:
1. Jeremy Pena, SS 2. Isaac Paredes, 3B 3. Jose Altuve, 2B 4. Christian Walker, 1B 5. Yainer Diaz, C 6. Victor Caratini, DH 7. Jake Meyers, CF 8. Cam Smith, RF 9. Jacob Melton, LF
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José Negron
7:49 pm - 06.03.2025North ShoreFinal: Pirates 3, Astros 0
• Who: Pirates (22-39) vs. Astros (33-27)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 62
• When: 6:40 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 83°, sunny
• Pitchers: RHP Mike Burrows (0-1, 8.64 ERA) vs. RHP Ryan Gusto (3.2, 4.62 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 89/861/862
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Astros
► FOLLOW ALONG
• FINAL: Bednar closes out the 23rd win on the season to even the series with Houston 1-1 as Meyers drives a deep fly out that is hauled in by Cruz. Bednar's 7th save on the season.
• Bednar comes back to get Caratini on the strike out.
• Diaz hits a single to left field.
• Bednar starts the inning clean striking out Walker.
• David Bednar gets the call from the pen to begin the ninth inning.
• End of eighth inning: Horwitz leads off the bottom of the eighth with a high inside fastball to go down swinging. Hayes flies out down the RF line in foul territory. Frazier lines out to Meyers in center.
• Bennett Sousa replaces Bryan King.
• Ashcraft comes backout for the eighth to get Pena on fly out to CF, struck out Paredes, and Altuve flies out to Reynolds in RF.
• End of seventh inning: Cruz foul tip strikeout, McCutchen pop out to SS, and Reynolds strikes out on a foul tip.
• Ashcraft strikes out Smith and Melton to finish off a clean seventh.
• Ashcraft gets Caratini to fly out to left before allowing a one-out single to Meyers.
• Braxton Ashcraft gets the seventh.
• End of sixth inning: Pham and Rodriguez fly out and IKF down swinging.
• Shugart strikes out Walker and gets Diaz to ground out 5-3. Preserves a scoreless performance for Burrows.
• Shugart walks Altuve on four pitches.
• Burrows threw 70 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He's responsible for that runner at second, but he allowed five hits, didn't walk a batter and struck out six.
• Paredes lines out to left and that's going to be it for Burrows. He exits to a nice ovation from the crowd. Chase Shugart enters.
• Pena leads off the sixth with a double off the left-field wall. A 3-0 fastball that barely caught the top of the zone.
• End of fifth inning: That was quick. Okert throws one pitch and gets Frazier to roll into a 4-6-3 double play.
• That's going to be it for Gusto. Steven Okert enters.
• Hayes pops out to second.
• Leadoff single for Reynolds and an opposite-field single for Horwitz.
• Five scoreless innings for Burrows, who is now at 63 pitches. Induced two groundouts and picked up his sixth strikeout of the night to end the fifth. Changeup really working for Burrows. He's generated six whiffs in turning to that pitch 17 times.
• End of fourth inning: McCutchen strikes out on a check swing. Cruz stranded at third.
• Cruz with his second stolen base of the night. Swiped third, there was a throw and no one was covering the bag. Easy.
• Cruz sends a two-out double out near the notch. Followed two hard-hit outs by Rodriguez and IKF.
• Burrows gets Caratini looking with a fastball on the inner third to end the top of the fourth. He's up to five strikeouts and 51 pitches over four innings. He hasn't thrown more than 14 pitches in an inning so far.
• Diaz singles past the glove of IKF at short.
• Altuve erased on a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Walker.
• Leadoff single to left for Altuve.
• End of third inning: Pham pops out to short.
• RUN: The runs haven't been pretty, but they still count. Horwitz scores on a 4-6-3 double play off the bat of Frazier. Pirates, 3-0
• Hayes adds a single to right, allowing Horwitz to get to third. Runners on the corners with nobody out.
• Horwitz bloops a leadoff single into center. He's now reached twice tonight.
• Burrows picks up another strikeout of Melton, gets Smith to fly out and overcomes a two-out single allowed to Pena by getting Paredes to ground out. Burrows really effective over three scoreless. He's at 39 pitches.
• End of second inning: Reynolds goes down swinging. Pirates get two runs on three hits.
• RUN: Rodriguez scores on a sac fly by McCutchen. Pirates, 2-0
• Cruz swipes second.
• Infield single for Cruz. Runners on the corners with one out for Cutch.
• RUN: Pham scores from third on a 6-3 groundout. RBI for IKF. Pirates, 1-0
• Rodriguez sends a double down the first-base line. Mike Rabelo holds Pham at third. Wise decision. Runners on second and third for IKF.
• Call is reversed. Pham reaches on an infield single.
• Looks to me like he beat out the throw.
• Pham called out at first on a bang-bang play. Pirates are challenging.
• Burrows leaves Caratini at second. Meyers grounds out to short to end the second. Burrows sitting at 25 pitches through two innings. Leaning heavily on his fastball (12 times) and slider (8) so far today.
• Burrows gets Walker swinging and Diaz to ground out to third before allowing a two-out double to Caratini. Got behind 2-1 and left a fastball on the outer third.
• End first inning: Frazier grounds out 5-3 to strand the bases loaded.
• Hayes HBP loads the bases for Frazier.
• Horwitz walks on four pitches. Two on for Hayes.
• Pirates get a two-out baserunner in the bottom half of the first on a walk to Reynolds.
• Burrows gets through a clean first inning on 13 pitches. Struck out Pena swinging and Paredes looking. Had to work for the Pena strikeout. Was down 3-0 before rallying back. Rodriguez had to squeeze a foul tip to finish it. Altuve flied out to end the inning.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Astros, 6:41 p.m., Burrows to Pena, 86 degrees, sunny
• Don Kelly’s starting nine:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
5. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
6. Adam Frazier, 2B
7. Tommy Pham, LF
8. Endy Rodriguez, C
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Joe Espada's Astros:
1. Jeremy Pena, SS
2. Isaac Paredes, 3B
3. Jose Altuve, 2B
4. Christian Walker, 1B
5. Yainer Diaz, C
6. Victor Caratini, DH
7. Jake Meyers, CF
8. Cam Smith, RF
9. Jacob Melton, LF
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