PIRATES

• Who: Pirates (6-11) vs. Nationals (6-10)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 18
• When: 6:40 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 48°, cloudy, 34% chance of rain
• Pitchers: RHP Mitch Keller (1-1, 4.24 ERA) vs. RHP Jake Irvin (0-0, 5.63 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 869/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Nationals

► FOLLOW ALONG

• And that's it. Suwinski goes down swinging. Final: Nationals 3, Pirates 0

• Valdez thought he had ball four there and gets rung up on a fastball that caught the very bottom of the zone.

• F3, Hayes.

• Kyle Finnegan enters the game for Washington.

• Pham reels in a Bell fly out and he head to the bottom of the ninth.

• More defensive miscues as a ball drops between IKF, Hayes and Suwinski.

• Pham now drops a live drive in right as Ruiz reaches first.

• 4-3, Wood.

• 6-3, Young.

• Another "Sell! The! Team!" chant breaks out here. It wasn't as loud as the previous ones, but it was there.

• Tim Mayza gets the ninth.

• It's a 5-4 ground out for Reynolds. 

• Cruz strieks out for the third time tonight. He looked to be shaking his hand before that last pitch.

• That is what we call a Henry Davis single.

• After everything that happened last night, you would think there would be some energy or some life from this team, but, again, there's nothing.

• IKF watches a changeup that catches the outer edge, his second strike out of the night.

• Jose A. Ferrer enters the game.

• Nuñez grounds out to first to end the top of the eighth.

• Nicolas loses it a little bit there and walks Crews on five pitches. Wasn't anywhere near the zone on the four balls. 

• Rosario pops up to Hayes at third. That's two away. 

• Garcia Jr. turns on a first-pitch fastball and doubles down the line.

• Bell strikes out on a high curveball.

• Kyle Nicolas has entered the game.

• End of seventh inning: Frazier with a soft ground out to second.

• Luck wasn't on the Pirates side there as a Pham single ricocheted off Rosario and bounced right to Nuñez, who was able to get Suwinski at short. 

• Suwinski pokes a single through the middle. 

• A: 8,340

• Garcia makes a nice sliding backhand at second base to take a hit away from Valdez. 

• It's a 2-3 ground out for Lowe as Borucki works a 1-2-3 inning.

• 6-3, Ruiz.

• Suwinski tracks down a fly ball in left center from Wood. Honestly, it looked like Cruz and Suwinski were going to collide for a second before Cruz peeled off.

• Ryan Borucki is entering the game. Keller's final line: 6 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 K

• End of the sixth inning: Hayes hits a soft ground ball back to Irvin.

• Reynolds flies out to right field just short of the warning track.

• Cruz strikes out on a changeup down the middle. 

• Davis reaches on an E5. Rosario had just entered the game to replace DeJong. Was hit hard with a 102 exit velocity.

• Keller gets Young swinging at a sweeper to end the top half of the sixth, but the damage is done. He's at 105 pitches. One could guess his night is done.

• Nuñez then steals second.

• RUNS: A shattered bat single from Nuñez scores both runners after a 10-pitch battle. Nationals, 3-0

• Crews steals second. 

• Crews singles to right center and Rosario advances all the way to third.

• DeJong leaves the game and Amed Rosario will pinch run for him at first.

• Keller pegs DeJong. Looks like it hit him near the eye, not sure if it caught the helmet at all but definitely made contact with his face.

• 4-3, Garcia Jr.

• Valdez recovers after diving to make a play at first and tosses to Keller covering the bag to get Bell.

• End of fifth inning: In true Pirates form, IKF grounds into a 6-4-3 double play.

• Why not bunt there? Frazier pops out to center.

• Pham walks on four pitches, Irvin wasn't anywhere close.

• Suwinski singles into right field on a 1-2 fastball at the top of the zone.

• Keller gets out of the jam with a ground ball to first base. He's up to 74 pitches. 

• Both runners advance on a wild pitch.

• Two quick outs on back-to-back fly outs to Cruz.

• Wood flies out to Cruz and both runners hold.

• Young bunts, Keller fields it but Valdez had also come in for it, leaving no one covering first.

• Nuñez makes solid contact with a fastball down the middle and singles to left.

• End of fourth inning: Valdez grounds out softly to first base.

• Hayes watches a fastball on the outer half of the plate.

• Reynolds strikes out for the second time tonight. He swung over a low curveball.

• Crews flies out to Cruz as Keller uses just five pitches to get through the fourth.

• Valdez tracks down a fly ball from DeJong in foul territory.

• Garcia grounds out to first to start the fourth.

• End of third inning: Cruz strikes out on a 2-2 curveball in the dirt.

• Davis then pops up to second on a high fastball.

• IKF watches a sinker at the bottom of the zone for Irvin's second strikeout of the night.

• Suwinski retreats to the warning track and makes a nice catch to end the Nationals' threat.

• Nationals execute a perfect hit and run and Lowe hits it right where IKF was. Runners on first and third.

• Ruiz pops out to third.

• Some more miscommunication between Cruz and Suwinski and the ball almost drops between them. Suwinski luckily makes the catch though. 

• Young walks to start off the third. 

• End of second inning: Frazier grounds out softly to first base.

• Pham makes weak contact on a 1-2 curveball and beats out the slow roller for an infield single.

• Suwinski hits a soft grounder back to Irvin for an easy 1-3 groundout. 

• Valdez flies out to right field. 

• Quick work from Keller, he retires the Nationals in order with 14 pitches as Nuñez grounds out to Valdez.

• Crews lines out to center field.

• Keller strikes out DeJong with a slider up in the zone. He swung right under it.

• End of first inning: Hayes lines out to center field. Really solid contact off the bat, 102.7 mph. 

• Reynolds strikes out on a high fastball.

• Cruz sends a rocket right back at Irvin, but the right-hander recovers to make the play. 107.3 mph off the bat.

• Garcia makes contact with a first-pitch curveball and pops out to Valdez.

• Bell hits a soft grounder to Keller.

• Lowe walks on six pitches, Keller missed way outside with a sweeper.

• Keller bounces back quickly to strike out Ruiz with a fastball in the bottom right corner of the zone.

• HOME RUN: Wood sends a 3-2 fastball over the Miller Time bar in centerfield for his first career leadoff home run. Went 445 feet. Nationals, 1-0 

• First pitch: Pirates vs. Nationals, Mitch Keller to James Wood, PNC Park, 6:41 p.m., 45 degrees, cloudy 

• For Derek Shelton's Pirates:

1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Bryan Reynolds, DH
3. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
4. Enmanuel Valdez, 1B
5. Jack Suwinski, LF
6. Tommy Pham, RF
7. Adam Frazier, 2B
8. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
9. Henry Davis, C

• For Dave Martinez's visitors

1. James Wood, LF
2. Keibert Ruiz, C
3. Nathaniel Lowe, 1B
4. Josh Bell, DH
5. Luis García Jr., 2B
6. Paul DeJong, 3B
7. Dylan Crews, RF
8. Nasim Nuñez, SS
9. Jacob Young, CF