• Final: Bednar strikes out Soto to close it out. Pirates, 9-2.
• Vientos with a slow roller, Hayes tried to barehand it but couldn't get his throw on target.
• Lindor grounds out to first base, Horwitz to Bednar.
• Bednar goes offspeed striking out Torrens.
• Renegade: David Bednar coming into game to pitch the ninth.
• End of eighth: Cruz strikes out on foul tip.
• The 10th man to bat this inning, Gonzales reaches on a walk.
• RUN: Reynolds follows with a 2-run double to right-center field. Pirates, 9-2.
• RUN: Cutch with a two-run single. Pirates, 7-2.
• Alexander Canario pinch-hitting for Frazier walks to load the bases again.
• RUN: IKF grounds out to Vientos at third to bring in Gonzales. Pirates, 5-2.
• RUN: Hayes singles to right as the ball hits off the glove of Alonso. Pirates, 4-2. And that'll be it for Brazoban. Colin Poche will take over on the mound.
• Horwitz walks to load the bases.
• Henry Davis is pinch-running for Bart.
• Bart draws the walk to move Gonzales into scoring position.
• Cruz strikes out for the second time today.
• Gonzales with his second straight single, this one to center field.
• Mets bringing in Huascar Brazoban to pitch the eighth inning.
• Baty with a hopper to Hayes who was way over at shortstop to end the inning.
• Taylor helps Ferguson with the double play to Gonzales.
• Marte walks.
• A: 30,649
• End of seventh inning: Frazier flies out to center, Cutch grounds out to the third baseman, and Reynolds lines out to left field.
• Reed Garrett is now pitching for the Mets.
• Nimmo was rolling with singles in his previous two at-bats, can't solve the lefty, Ferguson gets him to fly out to left.
• Back-to-back strikeouts for Ferguson, Alonso down swinging.
Caleb Ferguson shuffles off the mound after striking out Juan Soto, then strikes out Pete Alonso in a 1-2-3 7th pic.twitter.com/goU0MDj4r6
• Big strikeout for Ferguson to get Soto swinging.
• Pitching change for Pirates as Caleb Ferguson will pitch the seventh inning.
• End of sixth inning: IKF flies out to the right field warning track.
• Horwitz is the third straight strikeout, Hayes breaks the streak with a ground to shortstop.
• Vientos hits a chopper to Hayes, he throws to second base to end the inning.
• Lindor skies an easy fly to Cruz.
• Torrens with a ground ball to IKF to get the force out at second base.
• Baty leads off the sixth inning with a walk.
• End of fifth inning: Bart strikes out.
• Cruz strikes out.
• Reynolds flies out to Soto in right field, Gonzales goes the other way for single to Soto.
• Santana strikes out Taylor looking.
• Marte strikes out.
• RUN: Nimmo singles to right, Horwitz dove and the ball went underneath him. Kelly is coming out to get Ashcraft and into the game is Dennis Santana. Pirates, 3-2.
• Soto grounds out to second base, Alonso drills a double to the center field wall.
• End of the fourth inning: Cutch rolls it over to Baty at second base.
• Frazier retired on a ground ball to Alonso at first base.
• Mendoza is ejected by the umpire, third of the season, and got his money's worth coming out to argue further.
• IKF grounder to third base.
• Pitching change: Brandon Waddell.
• Vientos slices a liner to Gonzales who makes a nice grab to end the threat. Ashcraft is at 40 pitches through 2.1 innings.
• Lindor flies out to Frazier in left field.
• Torrens bounces the ball to Hayes, who misses the grounder and an outstanding play by IKF to be running behind him to back up the play, he gets the ball, dives and tags out Baty. Wow.
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• Baty doubles to left-center as the ball gets passed Cruz, who is having a five-minute span to forget.
• End of third inning: Hayes rips another ball, this one out to left field and for whatever reason Cruz was running to third, stopped too far towards third base and was easily thrown out at second base.
• Horwitz pulls a single to right, Bart advances to third base.
• RUN: Bart lines a single to center to knock in Cruz. Tied, 1-1.
• Cruz steals second base.
• Mets keep Blackburn in the game, Cruz lines a single up the middle to the second base side.
• Vientos strikes out to end the top half of the second inning.
• Braxton Ashcraft replaces Falter.
• 5:33 p.m.: tarp has been removed.
• 5:31 p.m.: Today's game will resume at approximately 6 p.m.
• 5:28 pm, a few members of the grounds crew came out, moved the roller off the tarp, then walked off the field to the dirt behind home and first base. Still raining and lightning around the city.
• Thunder rumbling, fans scattering to the concourses... Lindor walks and here comes the grounds crew. We've got our 1,000th rain delay of the season.
• Torrens singles over Hayes' head.
• Baty pops up to Hayes in the hole at short.
• The storm clouds are rolling in, Taylor pops out in foul territory to Horwitz.
• End of first inning: Gonzales grounds out 6-4.
• Third-base umpire Ben May rings up Reynolds on the check swing.
• Frazier looked fooled on the curveball as he waved at strike three, Cutch follows with a 3-2 single up the middle.
• Falter limits the damage to one run by striking out Marte.
• Alonso steals second base, now two runners in scoring position for Marte on 1-2 count.
• Nimmo flies out to Reynolds to the warning track, Soto tags and moves to third.
• Alonso follows with a single to right field.
• RUN: Soto with the infield drawn in, sneaks a single by Gonzales. Mets, 1-0
• Lindor ropes a single down left field line, moves to third on diving stop by IKF to keep Lindor to third base to retire Vientos 6-3.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Mets, Bailey Falter to Francisco Lindor, PNC Park, 4:08 p.m., 85 degrees, clear
• For Don Kelly’s Pirates:
1. Adam Frazier, LF 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Bryan Reynolds, RF 4. Nick Gonzales, 2B 5. Oneil Cruz, CF 6. Joey Bart, C 7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 8. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Carlos Mendoza's visitors:
1. Francisco Lindor, SS 2. Mark Vientos, 3B 3. Juan Soto, RF 4. Pete Alonso, 1B 5. Brandon Nimmo, LF 6. Starling Marte, DH 7. Tyrone Taylor, CF 8. Brett Baty, 2B 9. Luis Torrens, C
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THE ASYLUM
Greg Macafee
1:16 am - 06.28.2025NORTH SHOREFinal: Pirates 9, Mets 2
• Who: Pirates (33-50) vs. Mets (47-35)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 84
• When: 4:05 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 80°, cloudy, 24% chance of rain
• Pitchers: LHP Bailey Falter (6-3, 3.59 ERA) vs. RHP Paul Blackburn (0-2, 6.62 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 175/858/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Mets
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Final: Bednar strikes out Soto to close it out. Pirates, 9-2.
• Vientos with a slow roller, Hayes tried to barehand it but couldn't get his throw on target.
• Lindor grounds out to first base, Horwitz to Bednar.
• Bednar goes offspeed striking out Torrens.
• Renegade: David Bednar coming into game to pitch the ninth.
• End of eighth: Cruz strikes out on foul tip.
• The 10th man to bat this inning, Gonzales reaches on a walk.
• RUN: Reynolds follows with a 2-run double to right-center field. Pirates, 9-2.
• RUN: Cutch with a two-run single. Pirates, 7-2.
• Alexander Canario pinch-hitting for Frazier walks to load the bases again.
• RUN: IKF grounds out to Vientos at third to bring in Gonzales. Pirates, 5-2.
• RUN: Hayes singles to right as the ball hits off the glove of Alonso. Pirates, 4-2. And that'll be it for Brazoban. Colin Poche will take over on the mound.
• Horwitz walks to load the bases.
• Henry Davis is pinch-running for Bart.
• Bart draws the walk to move Gonzales into scoring position.
• Cruz strikes out for the second time today.
• Gonzales with his second straight single, this one to center field.
• Mets bringing in Huascar Brazoban to pitch the eighth inning.
• Baty with a hopper to Hayes who was way over at shortstop to end the inning.
• Taylor helps Ferguson with the double play to Gonzales.
• Marte walks.
• A: 30,649
• End of seventh inning: Frazier flies out to center, Cutch grounds out to the third baseman, and Reynolds lines out to left field.
• Reed Garrett is now pitching for the Mets.
• Nimmo was rolling with singles in his previous two at-bats, can't solve the lefty, Ferguson gets him to fly out to left.
• Back-to-back strikeouts for Ferguson, Alonso down swinging.
• Big strikeout for Ferguson to get Soto swinging.
• Pitching change for Pirates as Caleb Ferguson will pitch the seventh inning.
• End of sixth inning: IKF flies out to the right field warning track.
• Horwitz is the third straight strikeout, Hayes breaks the streak with a ground to shortstop.
• Vientos hits a chopper to Hayes, he throws to second base to end the inning.
• Lindor skies an easy fly to Cruz.
• Torrens with a ground ball to IKF to get the force out at second base.
• Baty leads off the sixth inning with a walk.
• End of fifth inning: Bart strikes out.
• Cruz strikes out.
• Reynolds flies out to Soto in right field, Gonzales goes the other way for single to Soto.
• Santana strikes out Taylor looking.
• Marte strikes out.
• RUN: Nimmo singles to right, Horwitz dove and the ball went underneath him. Kelly is coming out to get Ashcraft and into the game is Dennis Santana. Pirates, 3-2.
• Soto grounds out to second base, Alonso drills a double to the center field wall.
• End of the fourth inning: Cutch rolls it over to Baty at second base.
• Frazier retired on a ground ball to Alonso at first base.
• Mendoza is ejected by the umpire, third of the season, and got his money's worth coming out to argue further.
• IKF grounder to third base.
• Pitching change: Brandon Waddell.
• Vientos slices a liner to Gonzales who makes a nice grab to end the threat. Ashcraft is at 40 pitches through 2.1 innings.
• Lindor flies out to Frazier in left field.
• Torrens bounces the ball to Hayes, who misses the grounder and an outstanding play by IKF to be running behind him to back up the play, he gets the ball, dives and tags out Baty. Wow.
• Baty doubles to left-center as the ball gets passed Cruz, who is having a five-minute span to forget.
• End of third inning: Hayes rips another ball, this one out to left field and for whatever reason Cruz was running to third, stopped too far towards third base and was easily thrown out at second base.
• Horwitz flies out to left field, runners can't advance.
• Bart reaches on an infield single up the middle, Baty didn't have a play to get Cruz at second and too long of a play to throw out Bart at first.
• Cruz walks on eight pitch at-bat.
• Taylor hits a roller to Gonzales to end the inning.
• Marte follows with a single to left.
• Alonso grounder to Hayes, Nimmo singles to center.
• Ashcraft is dealing, six pitches, two strikeouts. This time, striking out Soto.
• End of second inning: Gonzales grounder to Alonso with force at second base.
• Reynolds goes down swinging.
• Cutch reaches on catcher interference, bases loaded for Reynolds.
• RUN: Frazier sac fly to center to score Horwitz. Pirates, 3-1.
• Pitching change: Jose Butto gets the call from the bullpen.
• IKF joins the hit parade with a single to left, bases loaded for Frazier as Horwitz is held at third base. That'll be it for Blackburn.
• RUN: Hayes rips a single to center, Bart scores. Pirates, 2-1.
• Horwitz pulls a single to right, Bart advances to third base.
• RUN: Bart lines a single to center to knock in Cruz. Tied, 1-1.
• Cruz steals second base.
• Mets keep Blackburn in the game, Cruz lines a single up the middle to the second base side.
• Vientos strikes out to end the top half of the second inning.
• Braxton Ashcraft replaces Falter.
• 5:33 p.m.: tarp has been removed.
• 5:31 p.m.: Today's game will resume at approximately 6 p.m.
• 5:28 pm, a few members of the grounds crew came out, moved the roller off the tarp, then walked off the field to the dirt behind home and first base. Still raining and lightning around the city.
• Thunder rumbling, fans scattering to the concourses... Lindor walks and here comes the grounds crew. We've got our 1,000th rain delay of the season.
• Torrens singles over Hayes' head.
• Baty pops up to Hayes in the hole at short.
• The storm clouds are rolling in, Taylor pops out in foul territory to Horwitz.
• End of first inning: Gonzales grounds out 6-4.
• Third-base umpire Ben May rings up Reynolds on the check swing.
• Frazier looked fooled on the curveball as he waved at strike three, Cutch follows with a 3-2 single up the middle.
• Falter limits the damage to one run by striking out Marte.
• Alonso steals second base, now two runners in scoring position for Marte on 1-2 count.
• Nimmo flies out to Reynolds to the warning track, Soto tags and moves to third.
• Alonso follows with a single to right field.
• RUN: Soto with the infield drawn in, sneaks a single by Gonzales. Mets, 1-0
• Lindor ropes a single down left field line, moves to third on diving stop by IKF to keep Lindor to third base to retire Vientos 6-3.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Mets, Bailey Falter to Francisco Lindor, PNC Park, 4:08 p.m., 85 degrees, clear
• For Don Kelly’s Pirates:
1. Adam Frazier, LF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Nick Gonzales, 2B
5. Oneil Cruz, CF
6. Joey Bart, C
7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
8. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Carlos Mendoza's visitors:
1. Francisco Lindor, SS
2. Mark Vientos, 3B
3. Juan Soto, RF
4. Pete Alonso, 1B
5. Brandon Nimmo, LF
6. Starling Marte, DH
7. Tyrone Taylor, CF
8. Brett Baty, 2B
9. Luis Torrens, C
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