• Pham strikes out on a low and away sweeper. That's it. Final: Dodgers 9, Pirates 2
• Frazier pokes one out into right center and the Pirates live for one more out.
• Hayes pops up to Kike in foul territory over at first base. Two away.
• Bart strikes out for the third time today.
• End of eighth inning: Pages pops up to second.
• Edman pops up to Gorski at first.
• Miguel Rojas hits for Freeman and singles into right field.
• Taylor grounds out to IKF.
• Chase Shugart gets the bottom half of the inning.
• Gorski grounds out to first base to end the top of the eighth.
• McCutchen tallied his fourth hit of the day with a single down into the left field corner.
• Reynolds strikes out swinging on a 1-2 curveball down in the zone.
• Cruz doesn't get one single pitch in the zone and strikes out on a curveball outside the zone.
• End of seventh inning: Quick inning of work for Holderman as he erases an Ohtani single with a 6-4-3 double play ball. Dodgers, 9-2
• Barnes grounds out to IKF at shortstop for the first out of the inning.
• IKF grounds into a 4-6-3 double play to strand Hayes at third. Pirates are 0-for-3 with RISP in and have left four on base.
• Pham flies out to center field, Hayes tags and advances to third.
• Frazier gets a fly ball to fall in right center. Runners on first and second.
• Hayes reaches on a single to right field. Poked a 1-0 sweeper the other way.
• Yoendrys Gómez takes over for the Dodgers.
• End of sixth inning: He gets Kike to ground out to IKF.
• Colin Holderman enters the game.
• Nicolas walks Muncy and that's it for the right-hander. Final line: 1 1/3 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K
• RUN: Pages can't be stopped. He singles to left field and scores Taylor. He's 10-for-11 against the Pirates this weekend. Dodgers 9-2
• Nicolas walks Edman on four straight balls.
• Freeman bites on an 0-2 curveball and flies out to left.
• Will Taylor pinch-hits for Teoscar Hernandez and singles to left field.
• Betts grounds out to second.
• Bart strikes out on a 2-2 sinker on the inner edge that he swung right over.
• Gorski flies out to center field.
• Shelton brings Matt Gorski off the bench and Roberts immediately goes to Luis Garcia out of the pen to get the righty-righty matchup.
• Cutch singles into left field.
• Reynolds is called out on a 3-2 fastball on the outer edge. He wasn't happy about the called and was barking at home plate umpire D.J. Reyburn on the way back to the dugout.
• End of fifth inning: Nicolas strikes out Ohtani with a slider down and in as it breaks out of the zone. However, the Dodgers take a commanding six-run lead.
• Barnes walks on six pitches.
• Kike singles into left field after reaching for a slider on the outer edge.
• Muncy grounds out to second.
• HOME RUN: Nicolas' first pitch is a 95 mph fastball and Pages sends it over the centerfield fence for a two-run shot.. Dodgers, 8-2
• Falter catches the outside edge with a 1-2 curveball to strike out Edman. That ends his day and Shelton elects to go with Kyle Nicolas. Falter's final line: 4 1/3 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K.
• Freeman singles into center field. He's 2-for-3 today.
• HOME RUN: Falter leaves a slider middle-middle and Teoscar Hernandez crushes it into the right field seats. Dodgers 6-2
• Cruz watches a 3-2 slider go by on the inner half of the plate, stranding IKF at second.
• IKF swipes second.
• IKF gets one to squeak through the left side and here comes Roberts to get Casparius. His day is done after facing 13 batters. It's Alex Vesia out of the bullpen.
• Pham is first-pitch swinging and pops up to second base on a cutter at the bottom of the zone.
• Frazier strikes out on a curveball.
• End of fourth inning: A Betts ground ball bounces off Hayes' glove but he recovers and fires a strike to first.
• Ohtani strikes out on a high fastball to end a six-pich at-bat. Falter settling in a little bit here.
• Barnes flies out to right.
• Hayes strikes out on a slider that broke outside the zone.
• Valdez flies out to center field on an 0-2 curveball.
• Cutch seeing the ball well today as he records his second hit with a single to left center. Jumped on a 3-2 cutter down the middle of the plate.
• End of third inning: Falter gets out of it as Kike pops out to shortstop.
• Muncy singles into centerfield and Pages moves to third.
• Pages is on base again ... surprise, surprise. He's 8-for-9 in this series.
• Edman hits a soft roller to Hayes for an easy throw to first. Two away.
• Freeman flies out to left.
• 1-3, Reynolds.
• Cruz pops up to third base.
• IKF watches a called third strike on the outsider edge. He thought it was ball four and it was awfully close.
• End of second inning: Teoscar Hernandez flies out to left.
• RUN: It's a sac fly for Bets in left center. Cruz calls off Pham and fires a throw to third to hold Ohtani at second. Two away. Dodgers 5-2
• Glasnow left the game with right shoulder discomfort.
• Ohtani smokes a sinker down the right field line for a double. Hernandez holds a third.
• Barnes pops up to Frazier, bringing up Ohtani.
• Falter misses badly with three straight to walk Kike Hernandez. Was all over at the top of the zone.
• Pham strikes out looking at a slider on the outer edge.
• Frazier flies out to center field. Two quick outs.
• Hayes grounds out to shortstop for the first out of the inning.
• Ben Casparius enters the game. I guess Glasnow has dealt with cramping issues recently and received an IV yesterday to try and avoid it today. Didn't seem like it helped much if that is indeed the case.
• Tyler Glasnow has been pulled from the game. Not sure if there was an injury there or what happened. He hasn't even throw a pitch in this inning.
• End of first inning: Falter gets out of it with a 3-6-1 double play ball from Muncy but the damage is done.
• RUN: Pages singles into left to score Edman. Dodgers, 4-2
• RUN: An Edman hit leaks through the left side past Hayes and into left field and Freeman scores all the way from first. Edman ends up at third after the throw home gets away from Bart. Dodgers, 3-2
• RUNS: Freeman singles into right field to score both Ohtani and Betts. Tied, 2-2
• Hayes makes a great diving play at third to rob Hernandez of a hit.
• Betts singles.
• Falter walks Ohtani on eight pitches. Quite the battle there between those two.
• Bart flies out to left field.
• HOME RUN: Back-to-back! Valdez scorches another fastball over the fence in right field. Pirates, 2-0
BACK TO BACK
Enmanuel Valdez follows up the Cutch home run with one of his own!!
• Reynolds quickly erases him with a 4-6-3 double play.
• Cruz does not in fact hit a leadoff home run. However, he does draw a walk.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Dodgers, Tyler Glasnow to Oneil Cruz, Dodger Stadium, 4:10 p.m., Eastern, 61 degrees, partly cloudy
• 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 Dave Roberts' Dodgers:
1. Shohei Ohtani, DH 2. Mookie Betts, SS 3. Teoscar Hernández, RF 4. Freddie Freeman, 1B 5. Tommy Edman, CF 6. Andy Pages, LF 7. Max Muncy, 3B 8. Kike Hernández, 2B 9. Austin Barnes, C
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Greg Macafee
8:47 am - 04.27.2025LOS ANGELESFinal: Dodgers 9, Pirates 2
• Who: Pirates (11-17) vs. Dodgers (17-10)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 29
• When: 4:10 p.m., Eastern
• Where: Dodger Stadium
• Weather: 60°, cloudy
• Pitchers: LHP Bailey Falter (1-2, 5.19 ERA) vs. RHP Tyler Glasnow (1-0, 3.71 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 861/854
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Dodgers
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Pham strikes out on a low and away sweeper. That's it. Final: Dodgers 9, Pirates 2
• Frazier pokes one out into right center and the Pirates live for one more out.
• Hayes pops up to Kike in foul territory over at first base. Two away.
• Bart strikes out for the third time today.
• End of eighth inning: Pages pops up to second.
• Edman pops up to Gorski at first.
• Miguel Rojas hits for Freeman and singles into right field.
• Taylor grounds out to IKF.
• Chase Shugart gets the bottom half of the inning.
• Gorski grounds out to first base to end the top of the eighth.
• McCutchen tallied his fourth hit of the day with a single down into the left field corner.
• Reynolds strikes out swinging on a 1-2 curveball down in the zone.
• Cruz doesn't get one single pitch in the zone and strikes out on a curveball outside the zone.
• End of seventh inning: Quick inning of work for Holderman as he erases an Ohtani single with a 6-4-3 double play ball. Dodgers, 9-2
• Barnes grounds out to IKF at shortstop for the first out of the inning.
• IKF grounds into a 4-6-3 double play to strand Hayes at third. Pirates are 0-for-3 with RISP in and have left four on base.
• Pham flies out to center field, Hayes tags and advances to third.
• Frazier gets a fly ball to fall in right center. Runners on first and second.
• Hayes reaches on a single to right field. Poked a 1-0 sweeper the other way.
• Yoendrys Gómez takes over for the Dodgers.
• End of sixth inning: He gets Kike to ground out to IKF.
• Colin Holderman enters the game.
• Nicolas walks Muncy and that's it for the right-hander. Final line: 1 1/3 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K
• RUN: Pages can't be stopped. He singles to left field and scores Taylor. He's 10-for-11 against the Pirates this weekend. Dodgers 9-2
• Nicolas walks Edman on four straight balls.
• Freeman bites on an 0-2 curveball and flies out to left.
• Will Taylor pinch-hits for Teoscar Hernandez and singles to left field.
• Betts grounds out to second.
• Bart strikes out on a 2-2 sinker on the inner edge that he swung right over.
• Gorski flies out to center field.
• Shelton brings Matt Gorski off the bench and Roberts immediately goes to Luis Garcia out of the pen to get the righty-righty matchup.
• Cutch singles into left field.
• Reynolds is called out on a 3-2 fastball on the outer edge. He wasn't happy about the called and was barking at home plate umpire D.J. Reyburn on the way back to the dugout.
• End of fifth inning: Nicolas strikes out Ohtani with a slider down and in as it breaks out of the zone. However, the Dodgers take a commanding six-run lead.
• Barnes walks on six pitches.
• Kike singles into left field after reaching for a slider on the outer edge.
• Muncy grounds out to second.
• HOME RUN: Nicolas' first pitch is a 95 mph fastball and Pages sends it over the centerfield fence for a two-run shot.. Dodgers, 8-2
• Falter catches the outside edge with a 1-2 curveball to strike out Edman. That ends his day and Shelton elects to go with Kyle Nicolas. Falter's final line: 4 1/3 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K.
• Freeman singles into center field. He's 2-for-3 today.
• HOME RUN: Falter leaves a slider middle-middle and Teoscar Hernandez crushes it into the right field seats. Dodgers 6-2
• Cruz watches a 3-2 slider go by on the inner half of the plate, stranding IKF at second.
• IKF swipes second.
• IKF gets one to squeak through the left side and here comes Roberts to get Casparius. His day is done after facing 13 batters. It's Alex Vesia out of the bullpen.
• Pham is first-pitch swinging and pops up to second base on a cutter at the bottom of the zone.
• Frazier strikes out on a curveball.
• End of fourth inning: A Betts ground ball bounces off Hayes' glove but he recovers and fires a strike to first.
• Ohtani strikes out on a high fastball to end a six-pich at-bat. Falter settling in a little bit here.
• Barnes flies out to right.
• Hayes strikes out on a slider that broke outside the zone.
• Valdez flies out to center field on an 0-2 curveball.
• Cutch seeing the ball well today as he records his second hit with a single to left center. Jumped on a 3-2 cutter down the middle of the plate.
• End of third inning: Falter gets out of it as Kike pops out to shortstop.
• Muncy singles into centerfield and Pages moves to third.
• Pages is on base again ... surprise, surprise. He's 8-for-9 in this series.
• Edman hits a soft roller to Hayes for an easy throw to first. Two away.
• Freeman flies out to left.
• 1-3, Reynolds.
• Cruz pops up to third base.
• IKF watches a called third strike on the outsider edge. He thought it was ball four and it was awfully close.
• End of second inning: Teoscar Hernandez flies out to left.
• RUN: It's a sac fly for Bets in left center. Cruz calls off Pham and fires a throw to third to hold Ohtani at second. Two away. Dodgers 5-2
• Glasnow left the game with right shoulder discomfort.
• Ohtani smokes a sinker down the right field line for a double. Hernandez holds a third.
• Barnes pops up to Frazier, bringing up Ohtani.
• Falter misses badly with three straight to walk Kike Hernandez. Was all over at the top of the zone.
• Pham strikes out looking at a slider on the outer edge.
• Frazier flies out to center field. Two quick outs.
• Hayes grounds out to shortstop for the first out of the inning.
• Ben Casparius enters the game. I guess Glasnow has dealt with cramping issues recently and received an IV yesterday to try and avoid it today. Didn't seem like it helped much if that is indeed the case.
• Tyler Glasnow has been pulled from the game. Not sure if there was an injury there or what happened. He hasn't even throw a pitch in this inning.
• End of first inning: Falter gets out of it with a 3-6-1 double play ball from Muncy but the damage is done.
• RUN: Pages singles into left to score Edman. Dodgers, 4-2
• RUN: An Edman hit leaks through the left side past Hayes and into left field and Freeman scores all the way from first. Edman ends up at third after the throw home gets away from Bart. Dodgers, 3-2
• RUNS: Freeman singles into right field to score both Ohtani and Betts. Tied, 2-2
• Hayes makes a great diving play at third to rob Hernandez of a hit.
• Betts singles.
• Falter walks Ohtani on eight pitches. Quite the battle there between those two.
• Bart flies out to left field.
• HOME RUN: Back-to-back! Valdez scorches another fastball over the fence in right field. Pirates, 2-0
• HOME RUN: Fireworks from Andrew McCutchen as he sends a first-pitch fastball over the wall in center field. Pirates, 1-0
• Reynolds quickly erases him with a 4-6-3 double play.
• Cruz does not in fact hit a leadoff home run. However, he does draw a walk.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Dodgers, Tyler Glasnow to Oneil Cruz, Dodger Stadium, 4:10 p.m., Eastern, 61 degrees, partly cloudy
• 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 Dave Roberts' Dodgers:
1. Shohei Ohtani, DH
2. Mookie Betts, SS
3. Teoscar Hernández, RF
4. Freddie Freeman, 1B
5. Tommy Edman, CF
6. Andy Pages, LF
7. Max Muncy, 3B
8. Kike Hernández, 2B
9. Austin Barnes, C
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