• Pham robs an Adell home run as he runs into the fence out in left field. That's it for this one. Final: Pirates 9, Angels 3
• Schanuel grounds out to Frazier for the second out.
• Borucki pulls the string on a splitter to get O'Hoppe swinging.
• Ryan Borucki gets the ninth.
• Triolo flies out to left field.
• Trout makes a jumping catch out in right field to rob McCutchen of his third hit of the night.
• I'm hearing a "Sell! The! Team!" chant. But, I believe it's coming primarily from Angels fans. Did see a Pirates fan or two participate.
• RUNS: Reynolds with a two-RBI single to added on to the lead. Pirates, 9-3
• Cruz strikes out looking at a fastball at the bottom of the zone.
• This place has emptied out rather quickly, but there's still more people here than a Pirates week day game.
• RUN: IKF hits a ground-rule double to score Frazier, Pham ends up at third. Pirates, 7-3
• IKF misses on a bunt attempt.
• Pham records his third hit of the night with a single to left field.
• Frazier walks again. This one on four pitches. That's his third walk of the game and he's reached base every time he's came to the plate.
• Tyler Anderson gets the ninth for the Angels.
• End of eighth inning: Santana strikes out Soler with a slider that breaks away from him out of the zone. Pirates, 6-3
• Trout draws a four-pitch walk and that's it for Lawrence. Here comes Dennis Santana.
• Lawrence locates that sweeper in the bottom right corner of the strike zone to get Neto. Was the third time he went to that location with that pitch.
• The Pirates have quietly put up 15 hits tonight. 13 of them have been singles. What's that saying? Death by a thousand cuts.
• One gets away from Lawrence and bounces to the backstop. Ward takes second.
• Lawrence walks Ward.
• He flies out to left field.
• Luis Rengifo is pinch-hitting for Newman.
• Justin Lawrence gets the eighth.
• Hayes grounds into a 5-4-3 double play.
• Bart strikes out after fouling off a few pitches. Missed on a 3-2 slider below the zone.
• Triolo singles to right field.
• Jared Triolo is pinch-hitting for Valdez.
• Cutch walks on 10 pitches. Great at-bat right there.
• Really clean 1-2-3 inning from Bednar. That strikeout, with the fastball up in the zone, is something you want to see.
• End of seventh inning: Bednar strikes out Paris with a 96 mph fastball up in the zone. Pirates, 6-3
• Valdez makes a diving stop at first and flips it to Bednar for the first out.
• Reynolds swings over a sinker that breaks out of the zone, stranding runners at first and second.
• Cruz strikes out on a 2-2 cutter below the zone.
• David Bednar is warming in the Pirates' bullpen.
• The call is overturned and IKF is safe.
• Paris almost makes a diving play on a IKF soft line drive. He dropped it and threw IKF out at first. The play is under review though.
• 6-3, Pham.
• Adell and Trout collide softly in right center field and a Frazier pop fly is dropped. He ends up on second.
• Two really nice innings of work from Shugart, no hits, three strikeouts. Can't ask for much more.
• End of sixth inning: Shugart works a 1-2-3 inning and strikes out O'Hoppe with a sweeper to end it.
• Soler gets ahold of a cutter and sends it out to right, but it's an easy catch for Pham.
• 5-3, Trout. That was a sharp hit ball off the bat (104.8 exit velocity). Hayes had to react pretty quickly there.
• Falter was removed from tonight's game with low-back tightness.
• Shugart is going to get a second inning of work.
• Hayes flies out to Trout in right.
• Bart records his second single of the night.
• Valdez erases Cutch with a 3-6-1 double play.
• Cutch singles through a wide open hole on the right side.
• Michael Darrell-Hicks has entered the game.
• End of fifth inning: Shugart gets Neto swinging with a 1-2 sweeper way out of the zone. Pirates, 6-3
• 1-3, Ward.
• Shugart gets Newman swinging at a 1-2 sweeper.
• Here comes Chase Shugart out of the pen. Falter's final line: 4 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
• Reynolds flies out to right.
• Cruz doubles on a infield chopper that bounced into the outfield. IKF advanced to third.
• RUN: Kiner-Falefa beats out an infield single that bounced off McDaniels. Frazier scores. Pirates, 6-3
• Pham singles to right field. Frazier advances to third on the play and Pham tries to take second but is thrown out, 9-5-4.
• Someone to my left is chanting "Double play, Tommy!" as Pham walks to the batter's box.
• Frazier walks on five pitches, four straight balls.
• 6-3 ground out for Hayes.
• End of fourth inning: Falter gets Paris looking at a sinker to strand Adell at second and limit the damage to two runs. Pirates, 5-3
• RUN: Angels stringing a few hits together here as Adell doubles down the left field line to score O'Hoppe from first. He caught a slider that was over the plate a little too much. Pirates, 5-3
• RUN: Schanuel hits a sac fly to center field to score Soler from third. Pirates, 5-2
• O'Hoppe singles into left field, Soler advances to third and Bart is heading out to the mound to talk to Falter.
• Soler connects on a slider that caught far too much of the plate at the bottom of the zone. He sends it to right center for a double. That's just the third hit Falter has surrendered tonight.
• Falter goes right back to work and gets a 5-3 ground out from Trout.
• Paris is perfectly positioned behind second base for a Bart ground out.
• Valdez grounds out to second base.
• It's Garrett McDaniels for the Angels.
• That's going to be in for Soriano. His final line: 3 1/3 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K
• HOME RUN: McCutchen clears the bases with a three-run shot that landed short of the Monster Energy truck in left center. Pirates, 5-1
ANDREW McCUTCHEN. SEE YA.
5-1, PIRATES.
104.1 MPH exit velocity, 417 feet, HR in 29/30 ballparks (except for Coors Field, maybe) pic.twitter.com/Xz76kZATpD
• RUN: Bart singles into the outfield and scores Reynolds from second. Valdez advanced to third on the play after Trout's throw slid out of his hand and went directly into the ground in front of him. You don't see that from a player of his caliber. Pirates, 1-0
• McCutchen moves Reynolds over with a ground out to third base.
• Reynolds starts the third with a single through the right side.
• End of second inning: Pham makes a nice play in left field to rob Adell of a hit.
• Schanuel squares up a first-pitch fastball and scorches it past a diving Frazier at second.
• O'Hoppe flies out to center field.
• Falter dots a fastball on the inside edge to strikeout Soler on three pitches.
• Cruz rolls over on a knuckle curve low in the zone and grounds out to second. Tough finish right there with the bases loaded.
• Kiner-Falefa walks on five pitches with the fifth one coming up and in.
• Pham reaches on a weak infield single to Soriano. Runners on first and second.
• Frazier finds a hole near the second base bag for the Pirates' first hit of the day. He took advantage of a sinker that Soriano left over the plate.
• Hayes grounds out to Newman, a former Pirate, at third. Two away.
• Bart strikes out on a 3-2 slider way outside the zone.
• End of first inning: Trout tries to check his swing but can't do it and Falter gets him with a fastball above the zone.
• Falter wins an eight-pitch battle and gets Neto swinging at a high slider.
• Ward starts off the bottom half with a fly out to Cruz in center.
• Valdez flies out to the catcher in foul territory.
• Paris robs McCutchen of a hit at second with a really nice play. Reynolds advances to second.
THE ASYLUM
Final: Pirates 9, Angels 3
• Who: Pirates (8-15) vs. Angels (11-10)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 24
• When: 9:38 p.m., eastern time
• Where: Angel Stadium
• Weather: 62°, partly cloudy
• Pitchers: LHP Bailey Falter (1-2, 4.91 ERA) vs. RHP José Soriano (2-2, 3.16 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 861/853
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Angels
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Pham robs an Adell home run as he runs into the fence out in left field. That's it for this one. Final: Pirates 9, Angels 3
• Schanuel grounds out to Frazier for the second out.
• Borucki pulls the string on a splitter to get O'Hoppe swinging.
• Ryan Borucki gets the ninth.
• Triolo flies out to left field.
• Trout makes a jumping catch out in right field to rob McCutchen of his third hit of the night.
• I'm hearing a "Sell! The! Team!" chant. But, I believe it's coming primarily from Angels fans. Did see a Pirates fan or two participate.
• RUNS: Reynolds with a two-RBI single to added on to the lead. Pirates, 9-3
• Cruz strikes out looking at a fastball at the bottom of the zone.
• This place has emptied out rather quickly, but there's still more people here than a Pirates week day game.
• RUN: IKF hits a ground-rule double to score Frazier, Pham ends up at third. Pirates, 7-3
• IKF misses on a bunt attempt.
• Pham records his third hit of the night with a single to left field.
• Frazier walks again. This one on four pitches. That's his third walk of the game and he's reached base every time he's came to the plate.
• Tyler Anderson gets the ninth for the Angels.
• End of eighth inning: Santana strikes out Soler with a slider that breaks away from him out of the zone. Pirates, 6-3
• Trout draws a four-pitch walk and that's it for Lawrence. Here comes Dennis Santana.
• Lawrence locates that sweeper in the bottom right corner of the strike zone to get Neto. Was the third time he went to that location with that pitch.
• The Pirates have quietly put up 15 hits tonight. 13 of them have been singles. What's that saying? Death by a thousand cuts.
• One gets away from Lawrence and bounces to the backstop. Ward takes second.
• Lawrence walks Ward.
• He flies out to left field.
• Luis Rengifo is pinch-hitting for Newman.
• Justin Lawrence gets the eighth.
• Hayes grounds into a 5-4-3 double play.
• Bart strikes out after fouling off a few pitches. Missed on a 3-2 slider below the zone.
• Triolo singles to right field.
• Jared Triolo is pinch-hitting for Valdez.
• Cutch walks on 10 pitches. Great at-bat right there.
• Really clean 1-2-3 inning from Bednar. That strikeout, with the fastball up in the zone, is something you want to see.
• End of seventh inning: Bednar strikes out Paris with a 96 mph fastball up in the zone. Pirates, 6-3
• Adell with a soft lineout to IKF at short.
• Valdez makes a diving stop at first and flips it to Bednar for the first out.
• Reynolds swings over a sinker that breaks out of the zone, stranding runners at first and second.
• Cruz strikes out on a 2-2 cutter below the zone.
• David Bednar is warming in the Pirates' bullpen.
• The call is overturned and IKF is safe.
• Paris almost makes a diving play on a IKF soft line drive. He dropped it and threw IKF out at first. The play is under review though.
• 6-3, Pham.
• Adell and Trout collide softly in right center field and a Frazier pop fly is dropped. He ends up on second.
• Two really nice innings of work from Shugart, no hits, three strikeouts. Can't ask for much more.
• End of sixth inning: Shugart works a 1-2-3 inning and strikes out O'Hoppe with a sweeper to end it.
• Soler gets ahold of a cutter and sends it out to right, but it's an easy catch for Pham.
• 5-3, Trout. That was a sharp hit ball off the bat (104.8 exit velocity). Hayes had to react pretty quickly there.
• Falter was removed from tonight's game with low-back tightness.
• Shugart is going to get a second inning of work.
• Hayes flies out to Trout in right.
• Bart records his second single of the night.
• Valdez erases Cutch with a 3-6-1 double play.
• Cutch singles through a wide open hole on the right side.
• Michael Darrell-Hicks has entered the game.
• End of fifth inning: Shugart gets Neto swinging with a 1-2 sweeper way out of the zone. Pirates, 6-3
• 1-3, Ward.
• Shugart gets Newman swinging at a 1-2 sweeper.
• Here comes Chase Shugart out of the pen. Falter's final line: 4 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
• Reynolds flies out to right.
• Cruz doubles on a infield chopper that bounced into the outfield. IKF advanced to third.
• RUN: Kiner-Falefa beats out an infield single that bounced off McDaniels. Frazier scores. Pirates, 6-3
• Pham singles to right field. Frazier advances to third on the play and Pham tries to take second but is thrown out, 9-5-4.
• Someone to my left is chanting "Double play, Tommy!" as Pham walks to the batter's box.
• Frazier walks on five pitches, four straight balls.
• 6-3 ground out for Hayes.
• End of fourth inning: Falter gets Paris looking at a sinker to strand Adell at second and limit the damage to two runs. Pirates, 5-3
• RUN: Angels stringing a few hits together here as Adell doubles down the left field line to score O'Hoppe from first. He caught a slider that was over the plate a little too much. Pirates, 5-3
• RUN: Schanuel hits a sac fly to center field to score Soler from third. Pirates, 5-2
• O'Hoppe singles into left field, Soler advances to third and Bart is heading out to the mound to talk to Falter.
• Soler connects on a slider that caught far too much of the plate at the bottom of the zone. He sends it to right center for a double. That's just the third hit Falter has surrendered tonight.
• Falter goes right back to work and gets a 5-3 ground out from Trout.
• Paris is perfectly positioned behind second base for a Bart ground out.
• Valdez grounds out to second base.
• It's Garrett McDaniels for the Angels.
• That's going to be in for Soriano. His final line: 3 1/3 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K
• HOME RUN: McCutchen clears the bases with a three-run shot that landed short of the Monster Energy truck in left center. Pirates, 5-1
• Reynolds singles to right field. Cruz holds at second.
• Cruz sneaks one through the infield for a one-out single (90.1 exit velocity). Have to think he might be on the move here.
• Kiner-Falefa strikes out on an outside fastball.
• End of third inning: Neto flies out to center field. Pirates, 2-1
• HOME RUN: Ward takes advantage of a misplaced slider over the heart of the plate and sends it to the bleachers in the left field. Pirates, 2-1
• Newman flies out to center.
• Falter gets Paris looking at a 3-2 fastball below the zone. He might've gotten the benefit of the doubt there.
• Pham ends the threat by grounding into a 6-4-3 double play on a sinker below the zone.
• Soriano is struggling here in the third. He's up to 61 pitches and has only throw, 30 strikes. Just walked Frazier for his fourth of the evening.
• RUN: Hayes singles through the middle to score Valdez. Pirates, 2-0
• RUN: Bart singles into the outfield and scores Reynolds from second. Valdez advanced to third on the play after Trout's throw slid out of his hand and went directly into the ground in front of him. You don't see that from a player of his caliber. Pirates, 1-0
• McCutchen moves Reynolds over with a ground out to third base.
• Reynolds starts the third with a single through the right side.
• End of second inning: Pham makes a nice play in left field to rob Adell of a hit.
• Schanuel squares up a first-pitch fastball and scorches it past a diving Frazier at second.
• O'Hoppe flies out to center field.
• Falter dots a fastball on the inside edge to strikeout Soler on three pitches.
• Cruz rolls over on a knuckle curve low in the zone and grounds out to second. Tough finish right there with the bases loaded.
• Kiner-Falefa walks on five pitches with the fifth one coming up and in.
• Pham reaches on a weak infield single to Soriano. Runners on first and second.
• Frazier finds a hole near the second base bag for the Pirates' first hit of the day. He took advantage of a sinker that Soriano left over the plate.
• Hayes grounds out to Newman, a former Pirate, at third. Two away.
• Bart strikes out on a 3-2 slider way outside the zone.
• End of first inning: Trout tries to check his swing but can't do it and Falter gets him with a fastball above the zone.
• Falter wins an eight-pitch battle and gets Neto swinging at a high slider.
• Ward starts off the bottom half with a fly out to Cruz in center.
• Valdez flies out to the catcher in foul territory.
• Paris robs McCutchen of a hit at second with a really nice play. Reynolds advances to second.
• Reynolds walks.
• Cruz is first pitch swinging and grounds out to shortstop.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Angels, José Soriano to Oneil Cruz, Angel Stadium, 6:38 p.m., 63 degrees, clear
• For Derek Shelton’s visitors:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Bryan Reynolds, RF
3. Andrew McCutchen, DH
4. Enmanuel Valdez, 1B
5. Joey Bart, C
6. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
7. Adam Frazier, 2B
8. Tommy Pham, LF
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For Ron Washington's Angels:
1. Taylor Ward, LF
2. Zach Nieto, SS
3. Mike Trout, RF
4. Jorge Soler, DH
5. Logan O'Hoppe, C
6. Nolan Schanuel, 1B
7. Jo Adell, CF
8. Kyren Paris, 2B
9. Kevin Newman, 3B
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