• Durbin flares one to IKF for the final out of the inning.
• Frelick lifts an easy flyball to Reynolds for second out. The rain starts to come down harder.
• Collins walks.
• Hoskins lines a hard groundball to Frazier for the first out of the fourth inning.
• End of third inning: Bart has had two key opportunities with runners in scoring position and has failed to come through. This time, he strikes out swinging to strand runners at second and third.
• Reynolds doubles to right. Runners on second and third for Bart.
• Cutch draws a two-out walk.
• Cruz pops out to short. Two down.
• IKF grounds out 6-3.
• Yelich grounds into a 3-6-1 double play to end the inning. Burrows is at 47 pitches through three innings.
• Contreras down swinging.
• Chourio single leads off the third.
• End of second inning: Pham down looking.
• Frazier flies out to right.
• Hayes hits a dribble out front of home plate for an easy out.
• Turang flies out to Cruz to end the inning.
• HOMERUN: Ortiz hammers a 1-0 pitch to LF for his second home run on the season. Brewers, 4-1
• Frelick hits shallow popup behind third base in left field for the first out.
• End of first inning: Horwitz down swinging.
• RUN: Cruz scores on a 5-3 double play. Brewers, 3-1
• Reynolds HBP loads the bases for Bart.
• McCutchen bloops a single into right and Cruz advances to third. Runners on the corners with nobody out for Reynolds.
• Cruz leads off the home half with a walk.
• Collins grounds out to second to end the top of the first. Brewers get three runs on two hits, including the homer, and a walk. Burrows threw 24 pitches in the first.
• Hoskins retired 4-3. Two down.
• HOME RUN: Yelich goes deep to left field. Ball just kept going. Burrows left an 0-1 fastball over the plate. Brewers, 3-0
• Single to right-center for Contreras. Puts two on for Yelich.
• He follows by walking Chourio on six pitches. Missing all over the place there.
• Burrows gets Turang swinging on a 2-2 changeup at the bottom of the zone.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Brewers, 6:40 p.m., MikeBurrows to BriceTurang, 53 degrees, cloudy
• The rain is coming down, but it looks like we're all scheduled to start on time here.
• Don Kelly's lineup:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Bryan Reynolds, RF 4. Joey Bart, C 5. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 6. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 7. Adam Frazier, 2B 8. Tommy Pham, LF 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• Pat Murphy's lineup:
1. Brice Turang, 2B 2. Jackson Chourio, CF 3. William Contreras, C 4. Christian Yelich, DH 5. Rhys Hoskins, 1B 6. Isaac Collins, LF 7. Sal Frelick, RF 8. Caleb Durbin, 3B 9. Joey Ortiz, SS
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José Negron
3:23 am - 05.22.2025North ShoreFinal: Brewers 8, Pirates 5
• Who: Pirates (17-33) vs. Brewers (24-26)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 51
• When: 6:40 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 53°, cloudy, 30% chance of rain
• Pitchers: RHP Mike Burrows (season debut) vs. RHP Aaron Civale (0-1, 15.00 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 847/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Brewers
► FOLLOW ALONG
• That's game: Brewers 8, Pirates 5.
• Hayes lines out to end the game.
• RUN: Horwitz groundout to shortstop. The STREAK is over as Cruz scores. Brewers, 8-5.
• Bart faces Trevor McGill and leaves the bat on his shoulder for strike 3.
• RUN: Reynolds hits 109 mph double off the centerfield wall to drive in Cruz, Cutch advances to 3B. Brewers, 8-4.
• Cutch follows with another walk.
• Cruz leadoffs the ninth inning with walk.
• Chourio groundout to IKF to end the inning.
• Turang flies out to left.
• Ortiz lines out to right.
• End of eighth inning: IKF flies out to center.
• He's erased on a 5-4-3 double play off the bat of Pham.
• Frazier walks.
• Durbin pops out to end the inning.
• RUNS: Frelick drives in two with a single to right. Brewers, 8-3
• RUN: Collins bloops an RBI single into right. Brewers, 6-3
• Hoskins flies out to left. Again, Chourio is forced to stay at second.
• Yelich walked intentionally to set up the double play possibility.
• Contreras retired 6-3. Chourio stays at second. One out.
• Chase Shugart enters and allows a leadoff double to Chourio.
• End of seventh inning: Hayes grounds out to first.
• A: 10,114
• Horwitz retired 4-3.
• Bart flies out to left.
• Turang pops up a bunt that Bart catches. He then throws to second to get Durbin for the 2-6 double play. Wow.
• Ortiz sacrifice allows both Frelick and Durbin to move into scoring position. One out.
• Durbin singles to left. Two on, no outs for Ortiz.
• Leadoff single to right for Frelick.
• Ryan Borucki enters.
• End of sixth inning: All of that for a Reynolds strikeout to strand two more runners. Nine left on base tonight.
• Runners on the corners with two outs for Reynolds.
• After nearly two hours, we're back.
• The new expected start time is 10:20 p.m.
• Players are out in the outfield stretching and getting ready now. Looks like this will resume. Not at the time approximated, but still.
• A visual of the scene here:
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• Players have returned to the dugout. Both Kelly and Murphy have made their way around the infield checking on its condition. Umpires, too.
• Grounds crew is really doing its best to make this field playable. I really can't see this game resuming in 10 minutes, but I could be wrong.
• Rain is still coming down at a decent rate. Managers are out on the field speaking with the umpires.
• Tonight's game is expected to resume at 10 p.m.
• Kind of confused here, though. They're rolling up the tarp, but it's coming down pretty hard again at the moment.
• The tarp is coming off.
• And it's coming down again. Tarp remains.
• Rain has let up significantly. Grounds crew seems to be preparing to get the tarp off.
• Rain beginning to come down harder, forcing the umpires to call for a rain delay.
• Cutch walks to put runners at first and third.
• Cruz advances to third on the passed ball.
• RUN: Cruz lines a double to CF wall, could have been a triple if he was hustling out of the box. IKF scores from second. Brewers, 5-3
• IKF hits a double off Durbin's glove knocking the ball to shallow CF.
• Pham goes down with his second strikeout tonight.
• Frazier lines out to center field.
• Collins strikes out to end the inning.
• Hoskins struck out looking.
• HOME RUN: Yellich to right center field on a 1-1 pitch for his 11th career multi-HR game. Brewers, 5-2
• Contreras hits a liner into the dirt to Frazier to groundout.
• Isaac Mattson comes into the game to work the 6th inning.
• Burrows final line: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, and 3 K
• End of fifth inning: Hayes popout to shallow left to the shortstop, stranding 3 more base runners.
• Horwitz gets an infield single as he was jammed on the pitch, loading the bases for Hayes.
• Bart back to doing Joey Bart things at the plate with a solid single to left field.
• Reynolds works a walk to end a quick appearance for the left reliever giving way to Rodriguez on the mound.
• Cutch gets into the act with a high popup to 2B just beyond the infield dirt.
• Cruz with a flyout to center field.
• Zastryzny comes into the game to relieve Civale.
• Chourio hits a chopper to IKFto end the inning. Burrows has thrown 77 pitches, 49 for strikes through five.
• Turang goes down swinging on a changeup down in the zone.
• Ortiz hits a line drive off Burrow's glove right to Frazier.
• End of fourth inning: IKF flies out to right field.
• Pham hits another shallow popup just behind SS for the second out.
• Frazier with a popout to the catcher near the Pirates dugout as Hayes was running on the pitch.
• Hayes legs out an infield single to third base.
• HOME RUN: Horwtiz hits his first PNC Park home run as a member of the Pirates, Brewers, 4-2
• Durbin flares one to IKF for the final out of the inning.
• Frelick lifts an easy flyball to Reynolds for second out. The rain starts to come down harder.
• Collins walks.
• Hoskins lines a hard groundball to Frazier for the first out of the fourth inning.
• End of third inning: Bart has had two key opportunities with runners in scoring position and has failed to come through. This time, he strikes out swinging to strand runners at second and third.
• Reynolds doubles to right. Runners on second and third for Bart.
• Cutch draws a two-out walk.
• Cruz pops out to short. Two down.
• IKF grounds out 6-3.
• Yelich grounds into a 3-6-1 double play to end the inning. Burrows is at 47 pitches through three innings.
• Contreras down swinging.
• Chourio single leads off the third.
• End of second inning: Pham down looking.
• Frazier flies out to right.
• Hayes hits a dribble out front of home plate for an easy out.
• Turang flies out to Cruz to end the inning.
• HOME RUN: Ortiz hammers a 1-0 pitch to LF for his second home run on the season. Brewers, 4-1
• Durbin hits a long flyout to right field.
• Frelick hits shallow popup behind third base in left field for the first out.
• End of first inning: Horwitz down swinging.
• RUN: Cruz scores on a 5-3 double play. Brewers, 3-1
• Reynolds HBP loads the bases for Bart.
• McCutchen bloops a single into right and Cruz advances to third. Runners on the corners with nobody out for Reynolds.
• Cruz leads off the home half with a walk.
• Collins grounds out to second to end the top of the first. Brewers get three runs on two hits, including the homer, and a walk. Burrows threw 24 pitches in the first.
• Hoskins retired 4-3. Two down.
• HOME RUN: Yelich goes deep to left field. Ball just kept going. Burrows left an 0-1 fastball over the plate. Brewers, 3-0
• Single to right-center for Contreras. Puts two on for Yelich.
• He follows by walking Chourio on six pitches. Missing all over the place there.
• Burrows gets Turang swinging on a 2-2 changeup at the bottom of the zone.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Brewers, 6:40 p.m., Mike Burrows to Brice Turang, 53 degrees, cloudy
• The rain is coming down, but it looks like we're all scheduled to start on time here.
• Don Kelly's lineup:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Joey Bart, C
5. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
6. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
7. Adam Frazier, 2B
8. Tommy Pham, LF
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• Pat Murphy's lineup:
1. Brice Turang, 2B
2. Jackson Chourio, CF
3. William Contreras, C
4. Christian Yelich, DH
5. Rhys Hoskins, 1B
6. Isaac Collins, LF
7. Sal Frelick, RF
8. Caleb Durbin, 3B
9. Joey Ortiz, SS
• Hi everyone! We're less than 90 minutes away from the scheduled first pitch and the tarp is out on the field here at PNC Park. I'll provide updates on the weather situation here and in the feed.
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