• RUN. Realmuto walks on five pitches. Implosion and a half. Phillies, 4-3
• Here's Tanner Rainey now, vs. Realmuto.
• RUN. Castellanos hit by pitch. Good grief. Tie, 3-3
• RUN. Borucki walks Schwarber. Still loaded. Still one out. Pirates, 3-2
• Borucki with a full-count walk to Harper to load the bases. Kelly emerges from the dugout to argue with third base umpire John Libka for ruling that Harper held up his swing. Kelly's tossed. Watching it live up here, I didn't think Harper came close to swinging.
• Pham's sliding attempt to catch a Turner pop into shallow left bounces out of his glove. It's ruled a basehit here in the press box, but that's got to be caught. Kelly's getting Holderman, and here comes Ryan Borucki.
• Rojas walk. Oscar Marin visit. Turner up.
• Holderman comes in perilously high and tight on Rojas, who avoids the pitch ... but home plate umpire Sean Barber can't, getting clipped in the upper back. Seems OK.
• Kepler pops out to left.
• Holderman back out for another. Max Kepler pinch-hitting.
• Kiner-Falefa 6-4 force.
• Triolo flies out to right.
• Pham knifes a single through to right.
• End sixth inning: Sosa 6-4-3 double play.
• Attendance: 44,039, a sellout. It's what they do here.
• Bohm singles into center.
• Colin Holderman's on for the Philadelphia sixth and quickly whiffs Realmuto.
• Solak whiffs. Third out.
• HOME RUN. Canario with a three-run shot. Went with a 1-2 fastball that was up and away, and it just made it above the tall fence in right. Pirates, 3-1
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
CANARIO GIVES THE PIRATES A 3-1 LEAD WITH A BOMB OF A HOME RUN!!!
• Hayes with a weird hop toward the middle, 4-6 fielder's choice. Runners at the corners with two outs for Canario.
• Bart singles through where a second baseman stood for 150 years.
• Cutch singles into left.
• Kiner-Falefa 6-3.
• End fifth inning. Castellanos flies out to the track in right.
• Schwarber walks.
• Harper steals second without a throw.
• That snaps the scoreless streak of the Pirates' pitchers at 14 2/3 innings. Hadn't given up a run since the seventh inning Tuesday night in New York.
• RUN. Oh, man, Harper reaches out an pokes one into shallow left. Not what you expect from him, but there it is. His 1,000th RBI, no less. Phillies, 1-0
• Turner with a one-chopper to Hayes, who gets the runner in a 5-2-5-1 rundown. Also well executed by the Pirates. Runners at the corners again, but now two outs.
• Rojas with a comebacker to Heaney, who smartly looks the runner back to third, fires back to second for the fielder's choice, but the relay to first isn't in time. One out, runners at the corners.
• Full-count walk to Wilson. Trouble here. Remember, Pittsburgh pitchers aren't allowed to give up even one run.
• Wild pitch hands Sosa third. Infield in now.
• Sosa whacks a double into the left-field corner to open the Philadelphia fifth and kinda wake the place up a little.
• Triolo skies out to center. 1-2-3.
• Gorski 5-3.
• Pham flies out to left. He's at .173.
• End fourth inning: Bohm 4-3.
• Realmuto 5-3.
• Castellanos pops out to right.
• Solak 6-3.
• Canario watches.
• Hayes whiff.
• End third inning: Schwarber gets everyone all geeked up with a deep fly to center, but Gorski leaps at the 401-foot mark in center to catch it. Very nice. He's always been known to be sound with the glove.
• Kiner-Falefa full-count walk. Suarez visibly displeased, but it could only be with himself. Last pitch was well off the plate.
• Triolo foul-tip, Realmuto hangs on, first out of the third.
• End second inning: Rojas lines out softly to second. Well done by Heaney to escape.
• Ouch. Bart takes a foul-back that knocks his mask all the way off. He'll need a minute.
• LOL, OK, add Wilson to that list. One-handed flail. Two outs.
• Sosa singles solidly into center. First pitch he sees. First and second for Philadelphia, one out, here in the second. Other than Castellanos, everyone in this lineup's looked comfortable against Heaney.
• Bohm full-count walk. On-base streak at 11 games.
• Realmuto 6-3.
• Gorski skies out, just short of track in right.
• Pham lines out to right. Two outs.
• Solak singles off the glove of a diving Turner.
• Canario singles up the middle.
• Hayes caught looking.
• End first inning: Castellanos lunges a mile outside.
• Schwarber splinters his bat in flaring to Hayes. Two outs.
• Yep. Harper laces a single into right-center.
• Turner leads off, takes two very big cuts, flies out to left-center. Keep an eye out. He looked extremely comfortable up there.
• Bart lines out to left. 1-2-3.
• Cutch frozen. They'll applaud that, too.
• Cutch gets a nice ovation here. Always.
• Kiner-Falefa bounces out to the right side.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Phillies, Ranger Suárez to Kiner-Falefa, 8:33 p.m., Citizens Bank Stadium, 71 degrees, (still) no rain
• Finally ... first pitch will be 8:30 p.m. Not one drop fell, but go right ahead and call it a rain delay.
• Heavily overcast here tonight, as it's been all day. There's a chance of some rain over the next hour and change, but no word of a delay at all.
• Don Kelly's visitors will be getting Bryan Reynolds a day of rest, and no, he's not hurt. Chatted with him briefly beforehand ...
1. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Joey Bart, C 4. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 5. Alexander Canario, RF 6. Nick Solak, 1B 7. Tommy Pham, LF 8. Matt Gorski, CF 9. Jared Triolo, 2B
• For Rob Thomson's home team ...
1. Trae Turner, SS 2. Bryce Harper, 1B 3. Kyle Schwarber, DH 4. Nick Castellanos, RF 5. J.T. Realmuto, C 6. Alec Bohm, 3B 7. Edmundo Sosa, 2B 8. Weston Wilson, LF 9. Johan Rojas, CF
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THE ASYLUM
Dejan Kovacevic
1:48 am - 05.16.2025PhiladelphiaFinal: Phillies 8, Pirates 4
• Who: Pirates (15-29) vs. Phillies (25-18)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 45
• When: 8:30 p.m.
• Where: Citizens Bank Park
• Weather: 78°, cloudy
• Pitchers: LHP Andrew Heaney (2-3, 3.15 ERA) vs. LHP Ranger Suárez (1-0, 5.91 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 858/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Phillies
► FOLLOW ALONG
• McCutchen grounds out 6-3 and that's game. Phillies 8, Pirates 4
• Cruz goes down swinging. Two outs.
• Oneil Cruz enters to hit for IKF. Good sign here.
• Jose Alvarado enters.
• RUN: Four-pitch walk to Triolo drives in a run. Phillies, 8-4
• Gorski walks to load the bases.
• Pham down swinging. One out.
• Adam Frazier hits for Solak and singles to put two on.
• Canario concludes an 11-pitch at-bat by drawing a walk. Fouled off five straight pitches before taking his base. Quality AB there.
• End of eighth inning: Realmuto retired 6-3.
• RUN. Castellanos 6-3, superb play by Kiner-Falefa. Phillies, 8-3
• RUN. Harper singles through the right side of a drawn-in infield. Phillies, 7-3
• RUN. Turner triples into the right-field corner, then does that super-cool Turner slide into third. Phillies, 6-3
• Rojas walks.
• Kepler whiffs.
• Joey Wentz relieving Holderman.
• Hayes pops into foul territory.
• Bart bounces into a 6-3 double play.
• Jordan Romano, Philadelphia's new reliever who audibly isn't all that popular in this place, walks Cutch to open the eighth.
• End seventh inning. Sosa busted-bat 5-4.
• RUN. Bohm with a line-drive sac fly to center. Semi-close at home, but Schwarber got in there. Phillies, 5-3
• RUN. Realmuto walks on five pitches. Implosion and a half. Phillies, 4-3
• Here's Tanner Rainey now, vs. Realmuto.
• RUN. Castellanos hit by pitch. Good grief. Tie, 3-3
• RUN. Borucki walks Schwarber. Still loaded. Still one out. Pirates, 3-2
• Borucki with a full-count walk to Harper to load the bases. Kelly emerges from the dugout to argue with third base umpire John Libka for ruling that Harper held up his swing. Kelly's tossed. Watching it live up here, I didn't think Harper came close to swinging.
• Pham's sliding attempt to catch a Turner pop into shallow left bounces out of his glove. It's ruled a basehit here in the press box, but that's got to be caught. Kelly's getting Holderman, and here comes Ryan Borucki.
• Rojas walk. Oscar Marin visit. Turner up.
• Holderman comes in perilously high and tight on Rojas, who avoids the pitch ... but home plate umpire Sean Barber can't, getting clipped in the upper back. Seems OK.
• Kepler pops out to left.
• Holderman back out for another. Max Kepler pinch-hitting.
• Kiner-Falefa 6-4 force.
• Triolo flies out to right.
• Pham knifes a single through to right.
• End sixth inning: Sosa 6-4-3 double play.
• Attendance: 44,039, a sellout. It's what they do here.
• Bohm singles into center.
• Colin Holderman's on for the Philadelphia sixth and quickly whiffs Realmuto.
• Solak whiffs. Third out.
• HOME RUN. Canario with a three-run shot. Went with a 1-2 fastball that was up and away, and it just made it above the tall fence in right. Pirates, 3-1
• Hayes with a weird hop toward the middle, 4-6 fielder's choice. Runners at the corners with two outs for Canario.
• Bart singles through where a second baseman stood for 150 years.
• Cutch singles into left.
• Kiner-Falefa 6-3.
• End fifth inning. Castellanos flies out to the track in right.
• Schwarber walks.
• Harper steals second without a throw.
• That snaps the scoreless streak of the Pirates' pitchers at 14 2/3 innings. Hadn't given up a run since the seventh inning Tuesday night in New York.
• RUN. Oh, man, Harper reaches out an pokes one into shallow left. Not what you expect from him, but there it is. His 1,000th RBI, no less. Phillies, 1-0
• Turner with a one-chopper to Hayes, who gets the runner in a 5-2-5-1 rundown. Also well executed by the Pirates. Runners at the corners again, but now two outs.
• Rojas with a comebacker to Heaney, who smartly looks the runner back to third, fires back to second for the fielder's choice, but the relay to first isn't in time. One out, runners at the corners.
• Full-count walk to Wilson. Trouble here. Remember, Pittsburgh pitchers aren't allowed to give up even one run.
• Wild pitch hands Sosa third. Infield in now.
• Sosa whacks a double into the left-field corner to open the Philadelphia fifth and kinda wake the place up a little.
• Triolo skies out to center. 1-2-3.
• Gorski 5-3.
• Pham flies out to left. He's at .173.
• End fourth inning: Bohm 4-3.
• Realmuto 5-3.
• Castellanos pops out to right.
• Solak 6-3.
• Canario watches.
• Hayes whiff.
• End third inning: Schwarber gets everyone all geeked up with a deep fly to center, but Gorski leaps at the 401-foot mark in center to catch it. Very nice. He's always been known to be sound with the glove.
• Harper rolls out to first.
• Turner lines out to left.
• Bart bounces out to third for the third out.
• Cutch bloops out to shallow right.
• Kiner-Falefa full-count walk. Suarez visibly displeased, but it could only be with himself. Last pitch was well off the plate.
• Triolo foul-tip, Realmuto hangs on, first out of the third.
• End second inning: Rojas lines out softly to second. Well done by Heaney to escape.
• Ouch. Bart takes a foul-back that knocks his mask all the way off. He'll need a minute.
• LOL, OK, add Wilson to that list. One-handed flail. Two outs.
• Sosa singles solidly into center. First pitch he sees. First and second for Philadelphia, one out, here in the second. Other than Castellanos, everyone in this lineup's looked comfortable against Heaney.
• Bohm full-count walk. On-base streak at 11 games.
• Realmuto 6-3.
• Gorski skies out, just short of track in right.
• Pham lines out to right. Two outs.
• Solak singles off the glove of a diving Turner.
• Canario singles up the middle.
• Hayes caught looking.
• End first inning: Castellanos lunges a mile outside.
• Schwarber splinters his bat in flaring to Hayes. Two outs.
• Yep. Harper laces a single into right-center.
• Turner leads off, takes two very big cuts, flies out to left-center. Keep an eye out. He looked extremely comfortable up there.
• Bart lines out to left. 1-2-3.
• Cutch frozen. They'll applaud that, too.
• Cutch gets a nice ovation here. Always.
• Kiner-Falefa bounces out to the right side.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Phillies, Ranger Suárez to Kiner-Falefa, 8:33 p.m., Citizens Bank Stadium, 71 degrees, (still) no rain
• Finally ... first pitch will be 8:30 p.m. Not one drop fell, but go right ahead and call it a rain delay.
• Heavily overcast here tonight, as it's been all day. There's a chance of some rain over the next hour and change, but no word of a delay at all.
• Don Kelly's visitors will be getting Bryan Reynolds a day of rest, and no, he's not hurt. Chatted with him briefly beforehand ...
1. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Joey Bart, C
4. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
5. Alexander Canario, RF
6. Nick Solak, 1B
7. Tommy Pham, LF
8. Matt Gorski, CF
9. Jared Triolo, 2B
• For Rob Thomson's home team ...
1. Trae Turner, SS
2. Bryce Harper, 1B
3. Kyle Schwarber, DH
4. Nick Castellanos, RF
5. J.T. Realmuto, C
6. Alec Bohm, 3B
7. Edmundo Sosa, 2B
8. Weston Wilson, LF
9. Johan Rojas, CF
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