• Who: Pirates (23-40) vs. Phillies (37-25) • What: MLB regular season, Game 64 • When: 6:40 p.m. • Where: PNC Park • Weather: 75°, cloudy, 46% chance of rain • Pitchers: LHP Bailey Falter (4-3, 3.14 ERA) vs. RHP Joe Ross (2-1, 4.34 ERA) • TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh • Radio: Pirates Radio Network • Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV • Satellite: SiriusXM 176/860/861 • Boxscore: MLB.com • Medianotes: Pirates | Phillies
► FOLLOW ALONG
• FINAL/RUN: Gonzales wins it with a long SAC FLY . Pirates, 5-4
• Cruz is caught looking with the bases loaded.
• IKF with a sac bunt turned into a single to load the bases and no outs.
• Triolo was 4 for his last 13, drops a single to CF that Marsh can't catch
• Frazier starts off with single to left field.
• Jordan Romano gets the ninth for the Phillies.
• Turner in 0-2 count swings and misses to the cheers of the home crowd.
• Max Kepler, a familiar free agent,pinch-hitting for Rojas strikes out.
• Marsh with his first at-bat of the game after replacing Wilson in LF is caught looking.
• Renegade time: David Bednar gets the ninth in a tied game.
• End of eighth inning: Davis makes it 3 straight K's and now seven in the game.
• Canario batting .233 in his last 10 games prior to tonight works a full count then strikes out for his second time, sixth as a team.
• Horwitz strikes out for the second time in the game.
• Matt Strahm now pitching for Phillies and Brandon Marsh comes in to play LF
• Realmuto and Sosa with easy ground outs to Triolo and Stott with a lazy fly out to LF.
• End of seventh inning: Reynolds flies out to LF stranding two.
• Gonzales lines out to RF.
• Cruz hits a single the other way to LF to put runners on 1st and 2nd.
• IKF walks.
• A: 23,243
• Triolo lofts an easy fly out to RF.
• Pitching change to start the inning by the Phillies with Orion Kerkering.
• Castellanos goes down quietly, 6-3. Time for the seventh inning stretch.
• Ferguson back out for the 7th inning starts it off striking out Schwarber and gets Bohm to fly out. Kelly makes the call for Dennis Santana.
• End of sixth inning: Frazier fouls out to Sosa down third base line.
• Horwitz with a dribbler down first base line for the unassisted groundout. Canario with a pop out to first base to keep Bohm warm. Davis ropes a double down the left field line for some two out magic.
• Ferguson continues his solid pitching to get Turner 6-3.
• Rojas retired 5-3 on a nice charging play by Triolo.
• Ferguson strikes out Stott, then walks Wilson.
• Caleb Ferguson into the game.
• End of fifth inning: Cruz attempts to steal 2nd but is called out on batter's interference as Gonzales struck out. Reynolds pops out to end the inning.
• Cruz walks to start the fifth.
• Cruz moves in, recovers to catch Sosa's flyout to end the inning.
• Realmuto strikes out.
• Bohm caught looking to begin the fifth. Castellanos doubles to left field wall.
• End of fourth inning: IKF fly out to RF corner.
• Triolo grounds out into the 6-4-3 double play.
• Frazier stays alive on 3-2 foul tip and follows up with a line single to RF.
• RUN: Davis welcomes Rangel to MLB with a 2-run HR to LF. Tied, 4-4.
• Rodriguez exited the game due to right elbow discomfort and being examined by the team's medical staff.
• Cruz hustled down the line on his grounder to SS but retired 6-3. Gonzales grounder to 2B
• Tanner Banks now pitching for the Phillies
• Castellanos ends the inning with a fly out to RF.
• RUN: Bohm lines a single to left center field. Phillies, 2-1
• Schwarber hits a grounder to second base, Turner moves to 3B.
• Rojas leads off with a weak fly out to Cruz in CF. Turner follows with a double off the Clemente Wall.
• End of second inning: IKF grounds out to third. that strands Triolo at second.
• Call is confirmed. He is out.
• Pirates try to go with a double steal as well but Frazier is thrown out at third by a step. Pittsburgh is challenging. Looked like Sosa may have made a late tag.
• Triolo works a count full and then draws a walk to put runners on first and second.
• Frazier bloops one out to right and it drops in between Castellanos and Stott, turning into a double.
• Davis sends a first-pitch slider into left field but Wilson is there to track it down. Looked like it had a chance for a second.
• Falter retires the side in order in the second as he strikes out Wilson with a sinker down and in.
• 4-3, Stott.
• Sosa flies out to left.
• Endy just abruptly let the game. Kelly is now talking to home plate umpire Todd Tichenor and Henry Davis is coming in.
• End of first inning: Canario strikes out on an 0-2 slider at the bottom of the zone.
• Horwitz lines out to deep center field. Took a middle-middle fastball for a ride.
• RUN: Reynolds singles into right with an exit velocity of 107 mph, scoring Gonzales. Tied, 1-1
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• That's followed by a Gonzales triple to right center field. Rojas almost made the catch but it bounced off his glove.
• Not sure how you just watch that one, but Cruz strikes out looking on a fastball on the inner edge.
• Realmuto pops out to second.
• RUN: Castellanos grounds out to short, but drives home Turner. Phillies, 1-0
• Phillies pull a double steal on the first pitch to Castellanos.
• It's a four-pitch walk for Bohm. Runners on first and second.
• Schwarber pops out to IKF.
• Turner lines Falter's second pitch right at IKF. It bounces off his glove and into the outfield for a base hit.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Phillies, Bailey Falter to Trea Turner, PNC Park, 8:03 p.m., 69 degrees, cloudy
• 7:13 p.m.: Tonight's game is expected to start at approximately 8 p.m.
• 7 p.m.: Staff is coming out to work on the warning track in left field again. Tarp is still on the field. Fans are returning to their seats as the rain has subsided a little bit.
• 6:44 p.m.: It's raining even harder now, most fans are under cover. Some are braving the weather in ponchos.
• 6:22 p.m.: Tonight's game will start in a weather delay.
• 6:12 p.m.: Field crew has taken the tarp partly off the edges of the infield and doing some work with QuickDry. It seems the rain has subsided but I don't see this game starting on time.
• 5:29 p.m.: According to the Weather Channel app, the Pittsburgh area is in a flash flood warning until at least 8 p.m.
• 5:14 p.m.: Staff was working on the shallow outfield where puddles had formed but it just started raining again. There are puddles all over the warning track as well.
• For Don Kelly's Pirates:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF 2. Nick Gonzales, 2B 3. Bryan Reynolds, DH 4. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 5. Alexander Canario, LF 6. Endy Rodriguez, C 7. Adam Frazier, RF 8. Jared Triolo, 3B 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Rob Thomson's visitors:
1. Trea Turner, SS 2. Kyle Schwarber, DH 3. Alec Bohm, 1B 4. Nick Castellanos, RF 5. J.T. Realmuto, C 6. Edmundo Sosa, 3B 7. Bryson Stott, 2B 8. Weston Wilson, LF 9. Johan Rojas, CF
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THE ASYLUM
Greg Macafee
6:32 pm - 06.05.2025NORTH SHOREFinal: Pirates 5, Phillies 4
• Who: Pirates (23-40) vs. Phillies (37-25)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 64
• When: 6:40 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 75°, cloudy, 46% chance of rain
• Pitchers: LHP Bailey Falter (4-3, 3.14 ERA) vs. RHP Joe Ross (2-1, 4.34 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 176/860/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Phillies
► FOLLOW ALONG
• FINAL/RUN: Gonzales wins it with a long SAC FLY . Pirates, 5-4
• Cruz is caught looking with the bases loaded.
• IKF with a sac bunt turned into a single to load the bases and no outs.
• Triolo was 4 for his last 13, drops a single to CF that Marsh can't catch
• Frazier starts off with single to left field.
• Jordan Romano gets the ninth for the Phillies.
• Turner in 0-2 count swings and misses to the cheers of the home crowd.
• Max Kepler, a familiar free agent, pinch-hitting for Rojas strikes out.
• Marsh with his first at-bat of the game after replacing Wilson in LF is caught looking.
• Renegade time: David Bednar gets the ninth in a tied game.
• End of eighth inning: Davis makes it 3 straight K's and now seven in the game.
• Canario batting .233 in his last 10 games prior to tonight works a full count then strikes out for his second time, sixth as a team.
• Horwitz strikes out for the second time in the game.
• Matt Strahm now pitching for Phillies and Brandon Marsh comes in to play LF
• Realmuto and Sosa with easy ground outs to Triolo and Stott with a lazy fly out to LF.
• End of seventh inning: Reynolds flies out to LF stranding two.
• Gonzales lines out to RF.
• Cruz hits a single the other way to LF to put runners on 1st and 2nd.
• IKF walks.
• A: 23,243
• Triolo lofts an easy fly out to RF.
• Pitching change to start the inning by the Phillies with Orion Kerkering.
• Castellanos goes down quietly, 6-3. Time for the seventh inning stretch.
• Ferguson back out for the 7th inning starts it off striking out Schwarber and gets Bohm to fly out. Kelly makes the call for Dennis Santana.
• End of sixth inning: Frazier fouls out to Sosa down third base line.
• Horwitz with a dribbler down first base line for the unassisted groundout. Canario with a pop out to first base to keep Bohm warm. Davis ropes a double down the left field line for some two out magic.
• Ferguson continues his solid pitching to get Turner 6-3.
• Rojas retired 5-3 on a nice charging play by Triolo.
• Ferguson strikes out Stott, then walks Wilson.
• Caleb Ferguson into the game.
• End of fifth inning: Cruz attempts to steal 2nd but is called out on batter's interference as Gonzales struck out. Reynolds pops out to end the inning.
• Cruz walks to start the fifth.
• Cruz moves in, recovers to catch Sosa's flyout to end the inning.
• Realmuto strikes out.
• Bohm caught looking to begin the fifth. Castellanos doubles to left field wall.
• End of fourth inning: IKF fly out to RF corner.
• Triolo grounds out into the 6-4-3 double play.
• Frazier stays alive on 3-2 foul tip and follows up with a line single to RF.
• RUN: Davis welcomes Rangel to MLB with a 2-run HR to LF. Tied, 4-4.
• Canario walks.
• Alan Rangel into the game making his MLB debut.
• Schwarber swings and misses to end the top of the fourth.
• RUN: Shugart gives up 2-run single to Turner. Phillies, 4-2
• Surprising pull by Kelly as Falter was at 65 pitches.
• Kelly comes out for the ball, Chase Shugart will try to strand the bases loaded.
• With the infield in, Rojas strikes out.
• Wilson swings at the first pitch to fly out to Cruz, who throws the ball home off the mound but nothing doing as runners held.
• Stott lines single to RF on the 10th pitch of the at-bat to load the bases for Wilson.
• Sosa walks.
• Realmuto doubles to center field.
• End of third inning: Horwitz strikes out.
• RUN: Reynolds on first pitch hits HR to LF. Tied, 2-2.
• Rodriguez exited the game due to right elbow discomfort and being examined by the team's medical staff.
• Cruz hustled down the line on his grounder to SS but retired 6-3. Gonzales grounder to 2B
• Tanner Banks now pitching for the Phillies
• Castellanos ends the inning with a fly out to RF.
• RUN: Bohm lines a single to left center field. Phillies, 2-1
• Schwarber hits a grounder to second base, Turner moves to 3B.
• Rojas leads off with a weak fly out to Cruz in CF. Turner follows with a double off the Clemente Wall.
• End of second inning: IKF grounds out to third. that strands Triolo at second.
• Call is confirmed. He is out.
• Pirates try to go with a double steal as well but Frazier is thrown out at third by a step. Pittsburgh is challenging. Looked like Sosa may have made a late tag.
• Triolo works a count full and then draws a walk to put runners on first and second.
• Frazier bloops one out to right and it drops in between Castellanos and Stott, turning into a double.
• Davis sends a first-pitch slider into left field but Wilson is there to track it down. Looked like it had a chance for a second.
• Falter retires the side in order in the second as he strikes out Wilson with a sinker down and in.
• 4-3, Stott.
• Sosa flies out to left.
• Endy just abruptly let the game. Kelly is now talking to home plate umpire Todd Tichenor and Henry Davis is coming in.
• End of first inning: Canario strikes out on an 0-2 slider at the bottom of the zone.
• Horwitz lines out to deep center field. Took a middle-middle fastball for a ride.
• RUN: Reynolds singles into right with an exit velocity of 107 mph, scoring Gonzales. Tied, 1-1
• That's followed by a Gonzales triple to right center field. Rojas almost made the catch but it bounced off his glove.
• Not sure how you just watch that one, but Cruz strikes out looking on a fastball on the inner edge.
• Realmuto pops out to second.
• RUN: Castellanos grounds out to short, but drives home Turner. Phillies, 1-0
• Phillies pull a double steal on the first pitch to Castellanos.
• It's a four-pitch walk for Bohm. Runners on first and second.
• Schwarber pops out to IKF.
• Turner lines Falter's second pitch right at IKF. It bounces off his glove and into the outfield for a base hit.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Phillies, Bailey Falter to Trea Turner, PNC Park, 8:03 p.m., 69 degrees, cloudy
• 7:13 p.m.: Tonight's game is expected to start at approximately 8 p.m.
• 7 p.m.: Staff is coming out to work on the warning track in left field again. Tarp is still on the field. Fans are returning to their seats as the rain has subsided a little bit.
• 6:44 p.m.: It's raining even harder now, most fans are under cover. Some are braving the weather in ponchos.
• 6:22 p.m.: Tonight's game will start in a weather delay.
• 6:12 p.m.: Field crew has taken the tarp partly off the edges of the infield and doing some work with QuickDry. It seems the rain has subsided but I don't see this game starting on time.
• 5:29 p.m.: According to the Weather Channel app, the Pittsburgh area is in a flash flood warning until at least 8 p.m.
• 5:14 p.m.: Staff was working on the shallow outfield where puddles had formed but it just started raining again. There are puddles all over the warning track as well.
• For Don Kelly's Pirates:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Nick Gonzales, 2B
3. Bryan Reynolds, DH
4. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
5. Alexander Canario, LF
6. Endy Rodriguez, C
7. Adam Frazier, RF
8. Jared Triolo, 3B
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Rob Thomson's visitors:
1. Trea Turner, SS
2. Kyle Schwarber, DH
3. Alec Bohm, 1B
4. Nick Castellanos, RF
5. J.T. Realmuto, C
6. Edmundo Sosa, 3B
7. Bryson Stott, 2B
8. Weston Wilson, LF
9. Johan Rojas, CF
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