• Who: Pirates (27-40) vs. Marlins (24-40)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 68
• When: 6:40 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 75°, partly cloudy
• Pitchers: RHP Mitch Keller (1-8, 4.13 ERA) vs. RHP Sandy Alcantara (2-7, 7.89 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 177/855/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Marlins

► FOLLOW ALONG

• Final: Hayes strikes out to end the game. Marlins, 3-2.

• Davis hits a shallow fly ball to RF, runners hold. 

• Frazier with two sacrifice bunt attempts don't go down but his swinging bunt to first base works out to move both runners. 

• Gonzales singles to RF, Triolo caught half way to second almost went too far back towards first and makes it safely to 2B

• Horwitz reaches base with a hit by pitch and Jared Triolo will pinch-run.

• Pirates will face Calvin Faucher in the ninth. 

• Mattson goes two innings, striking out three, and finishes the ninth inducing 6-3 with Fortes. 

• Myers foul tip, Davis holds on for the strikeout. 

• Wagaman strikes out. 

• End of eighth inning: Reynolds strikes out. 

• Cutch flies out to CF. 

• RUN: Cruz with an absolute missile to right center. Marlins, 3-2.

• IKF grounds out to third base, nice snag by Sanoja. 

• RUN: Hayes with his second HR of the season, this one to left field. Marlins, 3-1.

• Marlins reliever Ronny Henrique will get the eighth. 

• Ramirez follows up with a line out to Frazier. Stowers strikes out. 

• More solid defense, this time from Frazier as he makes a running catch towards the left field line to retire Lopez. 

• Isaac Mattson will pitch the eighth for the Pirates. 

• End of seventh inning: Frazier ground out to second, Davis hits a line drive to left center that Stowers makes a nice play to cover ground. 

• A: 14,465

• Gonzales flies out to right. 

• Now pitching for Miami is RHP Anthony Bender. The Pirates batters can rejoice. 

• Nice play by Hayes to get Sanoja on a hard hit ball as he was playing in at the bag. Edwards with an easy bouncer back to Borucki. Sanchez pops up to Davis behind the plate. 

• Ryan Borucki does come into game, first appearance since June 5th. 

• End of sixth inning: Cutch strikes out swinging. Reynolds fly out to CF. Horwitz fly out to left. Alcantara hasn't pitched more than 6 innings in a start. He's at 85 pitches. 

• Keller escapes again, Fortes grounds out to Horwitz. 

• Myers legs out an infield single up the middle that is too far for Gonzales to stop and throw. Now, he steals second... sensing a theme here. 

• Wagaman steals second base and Borucki is up in the pen. 

• Ramirez hits the ball to Gonzales who is shaded towards the 2B bag, makes a nice ranging play to get the out. Stowers pops up to Gonzales. Wagaman singles to RF. 

• End of fifth inning: Hayes with more weak contact popping up to SS, IKF follows up with a dribbler to Alcantara, and Cruz stares at strike three for second time tonight. Ugly inning. 

• Keller escapes the danger, strikes out Lopez, he's up to 82 pitches. 

• Sanchez steals second base without a throw. 

• Sanchez singles to right field, Edwards goes to 3B. Keller has been up in the zone all evening.

• Edwards reaches on fielder's choice 4-6-3. 

• Keller strikes out Fortes and Sanoja hits a hard ground ball to Hayes' left that he can't handle for the infield single. 

• End of fourth inning: Gonzales strikes out swinging, Frazier flies out to left, and Davis strikes out. 

• Myers grounds out to Gonzales up the middle to end the inning.

• RUN: Keller wild pitch advances Lopez to 2B, who scores on the single by Wagaman. Marlins, 3-0.

• Stowers flies to shallow left center for Cruz to snag the ball. 

• Ramirez skies a pop up to the outfield grass to Gonzales. 

• Lopez hits a chopper to the hole at SS beating out the throw by IKF.

• End of third inning: Horwitz flies out to right to strand two. 

• Reynolds draws a walk, his sixth this month. 

• Cutch with a half-swing to second base to move IKF to third. 

• Cruz stares at strike three.

• IKF begins the home half with a double down the left field line. 

• Slow roller to Horwitz by Sanchez to end the top half of the third. 

• Edwards ground out to IKF. 

• Sanoja erased, 5-3 by Hayes. 

• RUN: Fortes launches a 2-run HR to left down the line. Marlins, 2-0.

• Myers rips a single to left to leadoff the third. 

• End of second inning: Hayes grounds out up the middle and Lopez steps on second. 

• Davis pops one into the air but the Marlins let it drop, exchanging Davis on the basepaths for Frazier. 

• Really nice nine-pitch at-bat from Frazier as he fends off Alcantara before poking one into right. 

• Gonzales with an easy groundout to short on a 1-1 curveball. 

• 5-3, Wagaman. That's six up and six down for Keller.

• Keller strikes out Stowers with an up-and-in fastball. That's two for Keller. 

• Quick out for Keller to start the second as Ramirez pops out to short. 

• End of first inning: Reynolds watches strike three, a four-seam fastball at the bottom of the zone and then Horwitz flies out to left on a first pitch curveball. 

• McCutchen squares up a first-pitch fastball and doubles into the right-center gap. Really legged it out to get into second. 

• Cruz connects on an outside changeup and grounds out to second. 

• Lopez grounds out to IKF and Keller works a 1-2-3 inning on 14 pitches.

• Just one pitch after Sanchez sent a slider foul into the Allegheny, Keller bounces back to set him down with a changeup on the outer half. 

• Edwards starts it off with a flyout to right field. Reynolds tracks it easily. 

• First pitch: Pirates vs. Marlins, Mitch Keller to Xavier Edwards, PNC Park, 6:42 p.m., 74 degrees, clear 

• For Don Kelly's Pirates:

1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
5. Nick Gonzales, 2B
6. Adam Frazier, LF
7. Henry Davis, C
8. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
9. Isiah Kiner Falefa, SS

• For Clayton McCullough's visitors:

1. Xavier Edwards, 2B
2. Jesús Sanchez, RF
3. Otto Lopez, SS
4. Agustín Ramírez, DH
5. Kyle Stowers, LF
6. Eric Wagaman, 1B
7. Dane Myers, CF
8. Nick Fortes, C
9. Javier Sanoja, 3B