• It's a fielder's choice to end it. Final: Padres 9, Pirates 4
• Valdez flies out to left.
• McCutchen gets hit.
• Reynolds flies out to center field.
• Ryan Bergert gets the ninth for San Diego.
• Gorski catches a linedrive from Diaz to strand Iglesias at third.
• RUN: Heyward hits a sac fly to center field and that scores Bogaerts. Padres, 9-4
• Wade lays down a sacrifice bunt to move both runners over.
• Holderman walks Bogaerts and then hits Iglesias. Bart didn't seem to enjoy that one.
• Gorski remains in the game at first and Valdez will move over to second.
• End of eighth inning: Sounded like Cruz broke his bat on that fielder's choice as Triolo is out at second base.
• It's a 6-4 fielder's choice for Triolo.
• Canario smacks a first-pitch sinker into centerfield.
• Matt Gorski is hitting for Frazier.
• Adrian Morejon has entered the game for the Padres.
• Holderman strikes out Sheets to strand two runners.
• Colin Holderman has now entered the game. He receives some boos as he throws his warm up pitches.
• RUNS: Arraez sends a weak groundball through the left side to score two more and a weak and short "Sell! The! Team!" chant breaks out from the right side of the press box. Padres, 8-4
• RUN: Lockridge singles into center field to score Wade and the Padres extend their lead. Heyward advanced to third on the play. Padres, 6-4
• Ferguson strikes out Diaz with a 1-2 fastball on the inside edge.
• Elias Diaz is pinch-hitting for Maldanado.
• Triolo fields a ground ball from Heyward behind second base and an off-balance throw towards first rolls to the Padres' dugout. Heward was credited with a base hit and Wade advanced to third on the error.
• Wade takes an outside cutter the opposite way and singles into left field.
• Caleb Ferguson now pitching for the Pirates.
• Iglesias rolls over on one to second.
• Shugart is going to start the eighth. Iglesias, Wade, Heyward due up for the Padres.
• A: 12,349
• End of seventh inning: Estrada strikes out the side as he gets Hayes to swing at a fastball at the top of the zone.
• Estrada utilizies another splitter at the bottom of the zone to get Bart.
• Valdez swings over an 0-2 splitter nearly in the dirt.
• Jeremiah Estrada is now pitching for the Padres. Heyward has moved to right field and Brandon Lockridge has entered the game in left field.
• Bogaerts offers an ugly swing at an 0-2 sweeper from Shugart and strikes out.
• Sheets hits a ball that ricochets off Shugart. Hayes fields it in front of Triolo at short but his throw to first is late.
• Frazier is shaded toward second base and it pays off as Machado hits a soft grounder to his glove side for the second out.
• It looks like that's it for Borucki. Chase Shugart is now entering the game.
•. Arraez grounds out to first base and Valdez flips it to Borucki, who was covering.
• Borucki gets another inning of work with two lefties in Arraez and Sheets set to step into the box this inning.
• End of sixth inning: McCutchen grounds out to third and Machado makes a quick throw to second to get Reynolds. Padres, 5-4
• Reynolds walks on five pitches. Matsui didn't give him anything there.
• Cruz grounds out to first, Triolo advances to third. Two away.
• That brings on Yuki Matsui for the Padres.
• Triolo ropes a 2-1 fastball off the left field wall for a double. That pitch was right down the middle and Triolo took advantage.
• Canario lines out to short.
• HOME RUN: Frazier turns on a 2-2 changeup and sends it into the right field seats. That's his second home run of the season. Padres, 5-4
• Tatis Jr. left tonight's game with a left forearm contusion and initial x-rays are negative.
• Borucki gets Gonzalez with a 2-2 splitter at the bottom of the zone.
• Maldonado doubles off the left field wall. He seemed to think it was gone as he jogged around first base. Canario didn't exactly get it in quickly.
• 4-3 ground out for Heyward. Borucki making quick work of the bottom of the Padres order.
• Borucki gets Wade to swing over a 3-2 slider at the bottom of the strike zone.
• Ryan Borucki taking over in the sixth. Keller's final line: 5 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
• End fifth inning: Hayes down swinging to strand two.
• Bart walks. He's drawn six free passes in the last four games.
• Alek Jacob enters to face Bart.
• RUN: Valdez grounds out to first and Cruz scores. Reynolds to third. Padres, 5-3
• Cutch down swinging. One out.
• Huge double steal.
• Reynolds bloops a single into center that Wade can't track down.
• Cruz draws a leadoff walk off new Padres pitcher Wandy Peralta.
• Iglesias flies out to center to end the top of the fifth. Three runs score on four hits. Three of the four hits came on sliders, including two down in the zone. Another came on a sweeper down in the zone.
• Bogaerts pops out to Valdez in foul territory.
• Oscar Marin takes a visit to the mound. Keller has allowed four straight hits after recording the first out of the inning.
• RUN: Sheets singles past a diving Frazier. Padres, 5-2
• RUN: Machado singles and Arraez scores on an errant throw into the infield by Reynolds. Came after Cruz attempted a dive to catch the fly ball off the bat of Machado, but couldn't come up with it. Padres, 4-2
• RUN: Arraez doubles to right and Gonzalez hustles his way home. Padres, 3-2
• Maldonado grounds out 6-3 and Gonzalez singles to left.
• End of fourth inning: Triolo flies out to right. Bases left loaded.
• RUN: Canario walks to drive in the tying run. All tied at 2-2
• End of third inning: Reynolds is caught at second trying to stretch it into a double.
• RUN: Reynolds drives in Cruz with a single to right. Pirates, 1-0
• That's No. 33. Cruz swipes second to break Tony Womack's franchise record of 32 consecutive stolen bases. That's since 1951 when caught stealing was an official stat. The Pirates also recognize a streak of 37 consecutive stolen bases by Max Carey as well, which ranged from 1922-1923.
• End second inning: Frazier pops out to Machado at third.
• Hayes retired 4-3.
• Bart goes down looking. Fooled by a slider pretty much right down the middle in a 3-2 count. Slider is Cease's bread and butter. Have to know it's coming.
• A 1-2-3 second for Keller, as Wade flies out to left. A 10-pitch inning.
• Iglesias is retired 1-3. Couple quick outs for Keller. Needed four pitches to get those two.
• Bogaerts flies out to center.
• End first inning: Valdez lines out to center, but man did he battle there. Fouled off three straight pitches and five total during a 10-pitch at-bat. Made Cutch run a good bit with those foul balls in 3-2 counts. Cease threw 27 pitches right out of the gate.
• First hit of the night belongs to McCutchen. He lines a two-out single to center. Had to go out and get a four-seamer well out of the zone.
• Reynolds gets good wood on a 2-2 fastball at the top of the zone, but he lines out to center.
• A 2-2 slider from Cease appears a little inside. Cruz thought so, but he gets rung up to begin the home half.
• Sheets goes down swinging at a high fastball. Keller gets three straight outs after the leadoff walk, but he needed 20 pitches to get through the inning.
• Machado can't check his swing on a 1-2 slider way out of the zone. First strikeout of the night for Keller.
• Arraez doesn't see as many pitches as Tatis. He flies out on the second pitch he sees from Keller. One out.
• Tatis walks on eight pitches to get things started. Fouled off two tough pitches in a 3-2 count before checking his swing on a fastball well out of the zone.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Padres, 7:52 p.m., MitchKeller to FernandoTatis Jr., 66 degrees, cloudy. Delay of one hour, 12 minutes.
• Keller has started to throw in the field and players are starting to get stretched out while staff members work on the field. There are definitely a few wet spots around the field that they are trying to work on.
• Tonight's game is expected to start at 7:50 p.m and the tarp has been removed.
• It looks like they are preparing to take the tarp off. They've removed sandbags from the edges of the tarp. It's still raining though.
• It just started to rain again. Looking at the radar, it doesn't look like this rain is going to pass until at least 7:45 or 8 p.m.
• And as we say that, there is an announcement from PA Announcer GuyJunker stating that there is uncertainty surrounding the start time for tonight's game.
• No official announcement yet, but this game will start with a weather delay. Tarp is still on just minutes before the scheduled first pitch.
• We're about 13 minutes away from first pitch and the tarp is still on the field. It has stopped raining and they are currently playing the National Anthem.
• Derek Shelton's lineup:
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. Alexander Canario, LF 9. Jared Triolo, SS
• Mike Shildt's lineup for tonight's series opener:
1. Fernando Tatis Jr., RF 2. Luis Arraez, 1B 3. Manny Machado, 3B 4. Gavin Sheets, DH 5. Xander Bogaerts, SS 6. Jose Iglesias, 2B 7. Tyler Wade, CF 8. Jason Heyward, LF 9. Martin Maldonado, C
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Greg Macafee
3:02 am - 05.02.2025NORTH SHOREFinal: Padres 9, Pirates 4
• Who: Pirates (12-20) vs. Padres (19-11)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 33
• When: 6:40 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 72°, partly cloudy
• Pitchers: RHP Mitch Keller (1-2, 3.97 ERA) vs. RHP Dylan Cease (1-2, 5.76 ERA)
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: Apple TV+
• Satellite: SiriusXM 861/862
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Padres
► FOLLOW ALONG
• It's a fielder's choice to end it. Final: Padres 9, Pirates 4
• Valdez flies out to left.
• McCutchen gets hit.
• Reynolds flies out to center field.
• Ryan Bergert gets the ninth for San Diego.
• Gorski catches a linedrive from Diaz to strand Iglesias at third.
• RUN: Heyward hits a sac fly to center field and that scores Bogaerts. Padres, 9-4
• Wade lays down a sacrifice bunt to move both runners over.
• Holderman walks Bogaerts and then hits Iglesias. Bart didn't seem to enjoy that one.
• Gorski remains in the game at first and Valdez will move over to second.
• End of eighth inning: Sounded like Cruz broke his bat on that fielder's choice as Triolo is out at second base.
• It's a 6-4 fielder's choice for Triolo.
• Canario smacks a first-pitch sinker into centerfield.
• Matt Gorski is hitting for Frazier.
• Adrian Morejon has entered the game for the Padres.
• Holderman strikes out Sheets to strand two runners.
• Colin Holderman has now entered the game. He receives some boos as he throws his warm up pitches.
• RUNS: Arraez sends a weak groundball through the left side to score two more and a weak and short "Sell! The! Team!" chant breaks out from the right side of the press box. Padres, 8-4
• RUN: Lockridge singles into center field to score Wade and the Padres extend their lead. Heyward advanced to third on the play. Padres, 6-4
• Ferguson strikes out Diaz with a 1-2 fastball on the inside edge.
• Elias Diaz is pinch-hitting for Maldanado.
• Triolo fields a ground ball from Heyward behind second base and an off-balance throw towards first rolls to the Padres' dugout. Heward was credited with a base hit and Wade advanced to third on the error.
• Wade takes an outside cutter the opposite way and singles into left field.
• Caleb Ferguson now pitching for the Pirates.
• Iglesias rolls over on one to second.
• Shugart is going to start the eighth. Iglesias, Wade, Heyward due up for the Padres.
• A: 12,349
• End of seventh inning: Estrada strikes out the side as he gets Hayes to swing at a fastball at the top of the zone.
• Estrada utilizies another splitter at the bottom of the zone to get Bart.
• Valdez swings over an 0-2 splitter nearly in the dirt.
• Jeremiah Estrada is now pitching for the Padres. Heyward has moved to right field and Brandon Lockridge has entered the game in left field.
• Bogaerts offers an ugly swing at an 0-2 sweeper from Shugart and strikes out.
• Sheets hits a ball that ricochets off Shugart. Hayes fields it in front of Triolo at short but his throw to first is late.
• Frazier is shaded toward second base and it pays off as Machado hits a soft grounder to his glove side for the second out.
• It looks like that's it for Borucki. Chase Shugart is now entering the game.
•. Arraez grounds out to first base and Valdez flips it to Borucki, who was covering.
• Borucki gets another inning of work with two lefties in Arraez and Sheets set to step into the box this inning.
• End of sixth inning: McCutchen grounds out to third and Machado makes a quick throw to second to get Reynolds. Padres, 5-4
• Reynolds walks on five pitches. Matsui didn't give him anything there.
• Cruz grounds out to first, Triolo advances to third. Two away.
• That brings on Yuki Matsui for the Padres.
• Triolo ropes a 2-1 fastball off the left field wall for a double. That pitch was right down the middle and Triolo took advantage.
• Canario lines out to short.
• HOME RUN: Frazier turns on a 2-2 changeup and sends it into the right field seats. That's his second home run of the season. Padres, 5-4
• Tatis Jr. left tonight's game with a left forearm contusion and initial x-rays are negative.
• Borucki gets Gonzalez with a 2-2 splitter at the bottom of the zone.
• Maldonado doubles off the left field wall. He seemed to think it was gone as he jogged around first base. Canario didn't exactly get it in quickly.
• 4-3 ground out for Heyward. Borucki making quick work of the bottom of the Padres order.
• Borucki gets Wade to swing over a 3-2 slider at the bottom of the strike zone.
• Ryan Borucki taking over in the sixth. Keller's final line: 5 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
• End fifth inning: Hayes down swinging to strand two.
• Bart walks. He's drawn six free passes in the last four games.
• Alek Jacob enters to face Bart.
• RUN: Valdez grounds out to first and Cruz scores. Reynolds to third. Padres, 5-3
• Cutch down swinging. One out.
• Huge double steal.
• Reynolds bloops a single into center that Wade can't track down.
• Cruz draws a leadoff walk off new Padres pitcher Wandy Peralta.
• Iglesias flies out to center to end the top of the fifth. Three runs score on four hits. Three of the four hits came on sliders, including two down in the zone. Another came on a sweeper down in the zone.
• Bogaerts pops out to Valdez in foul territory.
• Oscar Marin takes a visit to the mound. Keller has allowed four straight hits after recording the first out of the inning.
• RUN: Sheets singles past a diving Frazier. Padres, 5-2
• RUN: Machado singles and Arraez scores on an errant throw into the infield by Reynolds. Came after Cruz attempted a dive to catch the fly ball off the bat of Machado, but couldn't come up with it. Padres, 4-2
• RUN: Arraez doubles to right and Gonzalez hustles his way home. Padres, 3-2
• Maldonado grounds out 6-3 and Gonzalez singles to left.
• End of fourth inning: Triolo flies out to right. Bases left loaded.
• RUN: Canario walks to drive in the tying run. All tied at 2-2
• Frazier hit by a pitch to load the bases.
• Hayes singles on a ball that hits off the glove of Cease and doesn't leave the infield. Two on, two outs for Frazier.
• Valdez pops out to first and Bart draws a two-out walk.
• Cutch retired 6-3.
• Keller gets Heyward swinging to end the top of the fourth. He's sitting at 65 pitches.
• RUN: Infield is drawn in and Wade singles to center. Bogaerts scores. Padres, 2-1
• Iglesias grounds out 4-3. Bogaerts to third. One out.
• Bogaerts swipes second.
• Single to right for Bogaerts.
• HOME RUN: The lead is short lived. Sheets goes deep to right-center. Tied at 1-1
• End of third inning: Reynolds is caught at second trying to stretch it into a double.
• RUN: Reynolds drives in Cruz with a single to right. Pirates, 1-0
• That's No. 33. Cruz swipes second to break Tony Womack's franchise record of 32 consecutive stolen bases. That's since 1951 when caught stealing was an official stat. The Pirates also recognize a streak of 37 consecutive stolen bases by Max Carey as well, which ranged from 1922-1923.
• Cruz draws a two-out walk.
• Triolo lines out to short.
• Canario down swinging.
• Gonzalez takes over for Tatis in right field.
• Machado grounds into a fielder's choice. Keller at 48 pitches through three innings.
• Arraez ends up with a single to right-center field on the 11th pitch of the at-bat. Runners on the corners with two outs for Machado.
• Arraez really making Keller work here. Similar to the Valdez AB against Cease. But Arraez has fouled off a whopping eight straight.
• Keller appears to get Tatis in the left hand with a 93 mph sinker. Tatis will exit. Oscar Gonzalez will run.
• Maldonado flies out to left.
• Heyward retired 3-1.
• End second inning: Frazier pops out to Machado at third.
• Hayes retired 4-3.
• Bart goes down looking. Fooled by a slider pretty much right down the middle in a 3-2 count. Slider is Cease's bread and butter. Have to know it's coming.
• A 1-2-3 second for Keller, as Wade flies out to left. A 10-pitch inning.
• Iglesias is retired 1-3. Couple quick outs for Keller. Needed four pitches to get those two.
• Bogaerts flies out to center.
• End first inning: Valdez lines out to center, but man did he battle there. Fouled off three straight pitches and five total during a 10-pitch at-bat. Made Cutch run a good bit with those foul balls in 3-2 counts. Cease threw 27 pitches right out of the gate.
• First hit of the night belongs to McCutchen. He lines a two-out single to center. Had to go out and get a four-seamer well out of the zone.
• Reynolds gets good wood on a 2-2 fastball at the top of the zone, but he lines out to center.
• A 2-2 slider from Cease appears a little inside. Cruz thought so, but he gets rung up to begin the home half.
• Sheets goes down swinging at a high fastball. Keller gets three straight outs after the leadoff walk, but he needed 20 pitches to get through the inning.
• Machado can't check his swing on a 1-2 slider way out of the zone. First strikeout of the night for Keller.
• Arraez doesn't see as many pitches as Tatis. He flies out on the second pitch he sees from Keller. One out.
• Tatis walks on eight pitches to get things started. Fouled off two tough pitches in a 3-2 count before checking his swing on a fastball well out of the zone.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Padres, 7:52 p.m., Mitch Keller to Fernando Tatis Jr., 66 degrees, cloudy. Delay of one hour, 12 minutes.
• Keller has started to throw in the field and players are starting to get stretched out while staff members work on the field. There are definitely a few wet spots around the field that they are trying to work on.
• Tonight's game is expected to start at 7:50 p.m and the tarp has been removed.
• It looks like they are preparing to take the tarp off. They've removed sandbags from the edges of the tarp. It's still raining though.
• It just started to rain again. Looking at the radar, it doesn't look like this rain is going to pass until at least 7:45 or 8 p.m.
• And as we say that, there is an announcement from PA Announcer Guy Junker stating that there is uncertainty surrounding the start time for tonight's game.
• No official announcement yet, but this game will start with a weather delay. Tarp is still on just minutes before the scheduled first pitch.
• We're about 13 minutes away from first pitch and the tarp is still on the field. It has stopped raining and they are currently playing the National Anthem.
• Derek Shelton's lineup:
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. Alexander Canario, LF
9. Jared Triolo, SS
• Mike Shildt's lineup for tonight's series opener:
1. Fernando Tatis Jr., RF
2. Luis Arraez, 1B
3. Manny Machado, 3B
4. Gavin Sheets, DH
5. Xander Bogaerts, SS
6. Jose Iglesias, 2B
7. Tyler Wade, CF
8. Jason Heyward, LF
9. Martin Maldonado, C
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