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• Alexander called for a balk and IKF takes second. Big spot for Cruz here.
• One pitch after a long foul ball, Davis hits a shot right to Durbin at third. That's baseball, folks.
• IKF makes solid contact and singles into left field in front of Bauers.
• 5-3, Frazier.
• Tyler Alexander takes over in the seventh for Milwaukee. Priester was solid in his return to Pittsburgh: 6 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K
• A: 24,651
• He gets out of it with three pitches as Chourio flies out to right field.
• Shugart enters the game.
• Turang hits a grounder to second and Frazier comes home with it to get the runner at the plate.
• Ferguson hits Ortiz in the foot. That loads the bases. Here we go.
• Chase Shugart is up in the pen.
• Bauers hits a ground ball to second and the Pirates try to turn two, but IKF has to make an awkward move to his right and it produces a weak through to first.
• Durbin singles into right field with a little poke in front of Canario.
• Frazier fields a backhand toward the second base bag and tries to make an off-balance throw to first. It goes wide of Horwitz but luckily stays in play.
• Caleb Ferguson enters for Pittsburgh. Keller's final line: 6 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 7 K
• End of sixth inning: Hayes grounds out to short.
• Canario strikes out for the first time tonight.
• Priester gets Horwitz to chase a curveball well below the zone.
• Keller gets Hoskins to swing over a 1-2 sweeper at the bottom of the zone.
• Yelich singles through the left side.
• Call stands. Another caught stealing for Davis.
• Keller catches Contreras on a fastball at the top of the zone. Chourio was also thrown out at second on a steal attempt on the play but, it's under review.
• Keller tries to make a bare-handed play on a soft grounder back to the mound, but his throw pulls Horwitz off first.
• End of fifth inning: Reynolds chases a 2-2 curveball to strand Cruz.
• McCutchen retired 6-3. Cruz was on the move, so he advances to second.
• One-out single for Cruz.
• Davis goes down looking at an outside sinker. Wasn't wrong in laying off that one.
• Turang goes down swinging for the second time today. Keller has five strikeouts and has thrown 73 pitches -- 50 strikes -- over five solid innings.
• Ortiz legs out an infield single to put runners on the corners. Tough play for Hayes to have to make there.
• Bauers flies out to left. Two outs.
• Two-hit day for Durbin. He shoots one into left, past a diving Hayes, for a one-out double.
• Keller induces a quick 4-3 groundout off the bat of Frelick.
• End of fourth inning: IKF grounds out to third and Durbin gets him by a step.
• Priester fools Frazier with an outside curveball. That wasn't a pretty swing.
• Hayes flies out to right field.
• Canario pokes a bloop single into right field. Nothing special about it, just kinda threw his bat at the ball for an easy hit.
• Keller freezes Hoskins with a sinker on the outside. That's Keller's fourth strikeout as his pitch count sits a 58.
• Yelich with a one-hop ground ball to Horwitz. Two away.
• Contreras grounds out to third. Hayes made a really nice play to charge the ball and make the throw to first.
• End of third inning: Horwitz now grounds into a 3-6-3 double play.
• Reynolds beats out the back end of a double play. McCutchen is out at second.
• Cutch goes the other way on an outside sinker.
• Keller strikes out Chourio with a sweeper outside the zone. He tried to hold his swing but Davis quickly pointed down the first-base line and got the call from first-base umpire Shane Livensparger.
• Keller gets his second strikeout after Davis squeezes a foul tip from Turang.
• Looked like Keller should've had strike three on that fifth pitch and the at-bat results in a single for Ortiz.
• Bauers, 4-3.
• End of second inning: Cruz grounds out to first and strands runners at first and second.
• Davis draws a nice walk there. He laid off a lot of stuff outside the zone.
• IKF strikes out on a sinker at the bottom of the zone.
• It's a bloop single up the left-field line for Frazier.
• Hayes flies out to right.
• Davis catches Durbin with that throw and IKF slaps down the tag. Really nice way to end the top half there.
• Yelich steals second. It seemed like Frazier thought he had him and was waiting for a challenge.
• Hayes has to back pedal into shallow right field behind third base for a popup from Frelick. Two away.
• Hoskins swings over a fastball on the outer edge for Keller's first strikeout of the day.
• Yelich hits a comebacker off Keller's glove for a single.
• Gotta love what Horwitz has been doing since he joined the big-league club and he's been doing it out of the four hole. Great stuff.
• End of first inning: Canario grounds out to second.
• RUN: Horwitz plates Reynolds with a double to right center. Chourio was shaded toward left and Horwitz took advantage of a slider at the outside corner. Pirates, 1-0
• Reynolds continues his hot streak. He has a hit in seven of the last eight games since getting a day off against the Phillies.
• Cutch stands in the box for a few moments after that called third strike. Looked very close to the outside edge.
• No home run for Cruz this time around as he hits a grounder to short.
• Three up, three down and three groundouts to shortstop. IKF had a busy inning and Keller threw 14 pitches.
• Keller and a few others thought they had strike three there, but he just missed.
• Chourio does the same and that's a quick two outs for Keller.
• Turang grounds out to IKF for the first out of the afternoon.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Brewers, 4:07 p.m., MitchKeller to BriceTurang, 62 degrees, sunny
• Don Kelly’s lineup:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Bryan Reynolds, RF 4. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 5. Alexander Canario, LF 6. Ke’Bryan Hayes, 3B 7. Adam Frazier, 2B 8. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS 9. Henry Davis, C
• Pat Murphy's starting nine:
1. Brice Turang, 2B 2. Jackson Chourio, CF 3. William Contreras, C 4. Christian Yelich, DH 5. Rhys Hoskins, 1B 6. Sal Frelick, RF 7. Caleb Durbin, 3B 8. Jake Bauers, LF 9. Joey Ortiz, SS
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THE ASYLUM
Greg Macafee
5:56 am - 05.24.2025NORTH SHOREFinal: Pirates 2, Brewers 1
• Who: Pirates (18-34) vs. Brewers (25-27)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 53
• When: 4:05 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 63°, partly cloudy
• Pitchers: RHP Mitch Keller (1-6, 3.88 ERA) vs. RHP Quinn Priester (1-2, 4.66 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 856/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Brewers
► FOLLOW ALONG
• That's it. Bednar gets a double play groundball from Turang and IKF twists it himself. Final: Pirates 2, Brewers 1
• Ortiz singles into left. Runners on first and second. One away.
• Bauers flies out to left field as Canario catches it on the run.
• Bednar hits Durbin. Play was reviewed to see if it hit the knob of the bat, but the call stands.
• Renegade. Here comes David Bednar.
• End of eighth inning: Hayes grounds out to second.
• Canario goes down swinging as well for his second strikeout today.
• Horwitz kicks up dirt down the right field line and doubles after a pretty comical slide into second.
• Reynolds swings underneath a high fastball for his second straight strikeout.
• Santana strands that leadoff single as Frelick lines out to Reynolds in right.
• Santana does the same to Hoskins.
• Davis squeezes a foul tip and Santana strikes out Yelich.
• Contreras reaches on an infield single as IKF's throw goes wide.
• Dennis Santana comes in for the Pirates.
• End of seventh inning: McCutchen swings at a sweeper outside the zone. Didn't seem to have a chance on that one.
• Anderson coming in with a funky sidearm delivery. Can't imagine that is easy to deal with for right handers.
• Grant Anderson comes in for Milwaukee.
• RUN: The big man delivers again! Cruz ropes a sweeper on the inner third into right center for a triple, scoring IKF in the process. Pirates, 2-1
• Alexander called for a balk and IKF takes second. Big spot for Cruz here.
• One pitch after a long foul ball, Davis hits a shot right to Durbin at third. That's baseball, folks.
• IKF makes solid contact and singles into left field in front of Bauers.
• 5-3, Frazier.
• Tyler Alexander takes over in the seventh for Milwaukee. Priester was solid in his return to Pittsburgh: 6 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K
• A: 24,651
• He gets out of it with three pitches as Chourio flies out to right field.
• Shugart enters the game.
• Turang hits a grounder to second and Frazier comes home with it to get the runner at the plate.
• Ferguson hits Ortiz in the foot. That loads the bases. Here we go.
• Chase Shugart is up in the pen.
• Bauers hits a ground ball to second and the Pirates try to turn two, but IKF has to make an awkward move to his right and it produces a weak through to first.
• Durbin singles into right field with a little poke in front of Canario.
• Frazier fields a backhand toward the second base bag and tries to make an off-balance throw to first. It goes wide of Horwitz but luckily stays in play.
• Caleb Ferguson enters for Pittsburgh. Keller's final line: 6 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 7 K
• End of sixth inning: Hayes grounds out to short.
• Canario strikes out for the first time tonight.
• Priester gets Horwitz to chase a curveball well below the zone.
• Keller gets Hoskins to swing over a 1-2 sweeper at the bottom of the zone.
• Yelich singles through the left side.
• Call stands. Another caught stealing for Davis.
• Keller catches Contreras on a fastball at the top of the zone. Chourio was also thrown out at second on a steal attempt on the play but, it's under review.
• Keller tries to make a bare-handed play on a soft grounder back to the mound, but his throw pulls Horwitz off first.
• End of fifth inning: Reynolds chases a 2-2 curveball to strand Cruz.
• McCutchen retired 6-3. Cruz was on the move, so he advances to second.
• One-out single for Cruz.
• Davis goes down looking at an outside sinker. Wasn't wrong in laying off that one.
• Turang goes down swinging for the second time today. Keller has five strikeouts and has thrown 73 pitches -- 50 strikes -- over five solid innings.
• Ortiz legs out an infield single to put runners on the corners. Tough play for Hayes to have to make there.
• Bauers flies out to left. Two outs.
• Two-hit day for Durbin. He shoots one into left, past a diving Hayes, for a one-out double.
• Keller induces a quick 4-3 groundout off the bat of Frelick.
• End of fourth inning: IKF grounds out to third and Durbin gets him by a step.
• Priester fools Frazier with an outside curveball. That wasn't a pretty swing.
• Hayes flies out to right field.
• Canario pokes a bloop single into right field. Nothing special about it, just kinda threw his bat at the ball for an easy hit.
• Keller freezes Hoskins with a sinker on the outside. That's Keller's fourth strikeout as his pitch count sits a 58.
• Yelich with a one-hop ground ball to Horwitz. Two away.
• Contreras grounds out to third. Hayes made a really nice play to charge the ball and make the throw to first.
• End of third inning: Horwitz now grounds into a 3-6-3 double play.
• Reynolds beats out the back end of a double play. McCutchen is out at second.
• Cutch goes the other way on an outside sinker.
• Keller strikes out Chourio with a sweeper outside the zone. He tried to hold his swing but Davis quickly pointed down the first-base line and got the call from first-base umpire Shane Livensparger.
• Keller gets his second strikeout after Davis squeezes a foul tip from Turang.
• Looked like Keller should've had strike three on that fifth pitch and the at-bat results in a single for Ortiz.
• Bauers, 4-3.
• End of second inning: Cruz grounds out to first and strands runners at first and second.
• Davis draws a nice walk there. He laid off a lot of stuff outside the zone.
• IKF strikes out on a sinker at the bottom of the zone.
• It's a bloop single up the left-field line for Frazier.
• Hayes flies out to right.
• Davis catches Durbin with that throw and IKF slaps down the tag. Really nice way to end the top half there.
• RUN: Durbin singles in Yelich with a linedrive to center field. Tied, 1-1
• Yelich steals second. It seemed like Frazier thought he had him and was waiting for a challenge.
• Hayes has to back pedal into shallow right field behind third base for a popup from Frelick. Two away.
• Hoskins swings over a fastball on the outer edge for Keller's first strikeout of the day.
• Yelich hits a comebacker off Keller's glove for a single.
• Gotta love what Horwitz has been doing since he joined the big-league club and he's been doing it out of the four hole. Great stuff.
• End of first inning: Canario grounds out to second.
• RUN: Horwitz plates Reynolds with a double to right center. Chourio was shaded toward left and Horwitz took advantage of a slider at the outside corner. Pirates, 1-0
• Reynolds continues his hot streak. He has a hit in seven of the last eight games since getting a day off against the Phillies.
• Cutch stands in the box for a few moments after that called third strike. Looked very close to the outside edge.
• No home run for Cruz this time around as he hits a grounder to short.
• Three up, three down and three groundouts to shortstop. IKF had a busy inning and Keller threw 14 pitches.
• Keller and a few others thought they had strike three there, but he just missed.
• Chourio does the same and that's a quick two outs for Keller.
• Turang grounds out to IKF for the first out of the afternoon.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Brewers, 4:07 p.m., Mitch Keller to Brice Turang, 62 degrees, sunny
• Don Kelly’s lineup:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
5. Alexander Canario, LF
6. Ke’Bryan Hayes, 3B
7. Adam Frazier, 2B
8. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
9. Henry Davis, C
• Pat Murphy's starting nine:
1. Brice Turang, 2B
2. Jackson Chourio, CF
3. William Contreras, C
4. Christian Yelich, DH
5. Rhys Hoskins, 1B
6. Sal Frelick, RF
7. Caleb Durbin, 3B
8. Jake Bauers, LF
9. Joey Ortiz, SS
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