• Who: Pirates (39-58) vs. White Sox (32-65) • What: MLB regular season, Game 98 • When: 6:40 p.m., Eastern • Where: PNC Park • Weather: 79°, cloudy • Pitchers: LHP BaileyFalter (6-4, 3.79 ERA) vs. RHP JonathanCannon (3-7, 4.44 ERA) • TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh • Radio: Pirates Radio Network • Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV • Satellite: SiriusXM 183/852/861 • Boxscore: MLB.com • Medianotes: Pirates | White Sox
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Final: Gonzales walked and moved to second base on Alexander Canario's ground out to third. Bart struck out. Henry Davis pinch-hitting for Horwitz ends game with grounder to third.
• Tyler Alexander into game to close it out for Chicago.
• Robert and Sosa are retired, last at-bats for the Pirates coming up.
• Scary line drive back at Mattson that he somehow escapes, fields the ball, and throws out Benintendi.
• Now pitching for the Pirates is Isaac Mattson.
• End of eighth inning: Peguero ground out to shortstop, Pham pulled a liner caught by Montgomery at third, Cutch walked, and Suwinski stares at strike three because that's what he's been taught to do.
• Dan Altavilla is now pitching for the White Sox.
• We've entered the stage of let's swing early and get this over as White Sox go down in order.
• Liover Peguero replaces IKF at SS and Jack Suwinski for Reynolds in right.
• A: 28,899
• End of seventh inning: Bart grounder to second, Horwitz flied out to shallow center, and Hayes lined out to third.
• That inning mercifully comes to an end with Meidroth ground out to IKF. Anyone for Little League seven inning rule tonight?
• RUN: Montgomery strikes out but Taylor clears the bases with a double to left. White Sox 10-1.
• Sosa strikes out to end Ramirez's work for the night as Kelly calls on Genesis Cabrera.
• Ramirez is struggling, walks Robert to load the bases and out comes Marin for a mound visit.
• RUN: Benintendi singles under Horwitz's glove, somehow gets by Gonzales to reach out to right field, where Reynolds can't come up with it either but Chicago holds Vargas at third. Quero scored on the play. White Sox 7-1.
• A wild pitch that pops up behind Bart allows Quero to move to third base, a pitcher later Vargas walks.
• Quero with a double to left-center field that somehow escapes being worse as Cruz missed the ball and fell down, good thing it was the catcher.
• End of sixth inning: Nothing doing as Reynolds flied out to right, Gonzales struck out, and Cruz flied out to left.
• Ramirez does the job striking out Taylor, Meidroth popped up to Gonzales just beyond the infield, and Quero struck out.
• RUN: Montgomery's two-run RBI double just over the glove of Horwitz who leaped up to try to glove it has knocked out Ashcraft from the game as Yohan Ramirez is into the game to hold it to a 6-1 deficit... White Sox 6, Pirates 1.
• Sosa lines a single to left to load the bases.
• First time Ashcraft has walked more than two batters in a game, doubling up his total in the game walking Benintendi and Robert to start this inning.
• End of fifth inning: Pham grounds out to short, IKF advances to third, and Cutch lines sharply to short.
• IKF doubles to the right-center field gap after Hayes had an easy grounder to second.
• After getting Meidroth to fly out to IKF in shallow left, Ashcraft walked Slater and Quero but escapes the jam with an inning ending 5-4-3 doubleplay.
• Braxton Ashcraft is now pitching for the Pirates.
• End of fourth inning: Cruz stranded on second after a strikeout of Bart and a groundout by Horwitz.
• Stolen base No. 30 for Cruz. Second in baseball.
• RUN: No shutout tonight. Cruz follows up a Reynolds double and a Gonzales flyout with an RBI single into right. White Sox, 4-1
• Falter induces a 5-4-3 double play off the bat of Taylor to end the fourth.
• Keeps getting worse. Falter is late getting to the bag and Montgomery legs out an infield single with one out.
• HOMERUN: Robert goes deep to left. First-pitch splitter right down the pipe. That's a seventh homer allowed by Falter over his last three starts. White Sox, 4-0
• End of third inning: Some hard hit balls, but good defense by the Sox. McCutchen gave one a ride to left but Taylor had enough room to make the catch on the track.
• Outstanding catch in center by Robert. Had a long ways to go before laying out for that one. Robs IKF of extra bases.
• Falter allows a leadoff single and retires the final three batters he faces in the third. Struck out Benintendi swinging to end the top half.
• End of second inning: Hayes grounds out. Epic failure there.
• Should have been a run. Horwitz hits a fly ball into shallow left field and Taylor had to slide to make the catch. Cruz didn't tag up, though. Feel like he would have scored easily on that.
• Bart takes advantage of Cruz being on the move. Hits it right to where the second baseman would have been. Bart reaches on a single and Cruz, after a slide into second, advances to third.
• Pirates have their first hit, as Cruz wastes no time sending a first-pitch sinker into center for a single. Had to reach out and get that one, too. Pretty far out of the zone.
• A 17-pitch second for Falter, but better than the first. Retired the Sox in order this time around. He's up to 52 pitches over two, though.
• End of first inning: Cannon retires the top of the Pirates' order in order.
• Sosa flies out to right to end the top of the first. Falter threw just 20 of his 35 pitches for strikes out of the gate. I'd imagine he continues, but Pirates will likely need to get some length out of Ashcraft in this one.
• Braxton Ashcraft's up in the bullpen.
• Back to the home run allowed by Falter, he has now surrendered six homers in three starts this month. He allowed four over 11 starts through May and June.
• RUN: Robert plates Benintendi with an RBI single to center. Four straight baserunners allowed, three on hits, after getting the first two outs. White Sox, 3-0
• RUN: Benintendi sends an RBI double into the gap in right-center. A 2-2 sinker left up in the zone from Falter. White Sox, 2-0
• HOMERUN: Quero sends a liner out to left for a solo shot. A 3-1 fastball from Falter on the bottom part of the zone. Middle of the plate, though. Had to throw a strike and paid for it. White Sox, 1-0
• First pitch: Pirates vs. White Sox, 6:42 p.m., Falter to Meidroth, 77 degrees, cloudy
• For Don Kelly's Pirates:
1. Tommy Pham, LF 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Bryan Reynolds, RF 4. Nick Gonzales, 2B 5. Oneil Cruz, CF 6. Joey Bart, C 7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 8. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• Will Venable's starting nine:
1. Chase Meidroth, SS 2. Austin Slater, RF 3. Edgar Quero, C 4. Miguel Vargas, 1B 5. Andrew Benintendi, DH 6. Luis Robert Jr., CF 7. Lenyn Sosa, 2B 8. Colson Montgomery, 3B 9. Michael A. Taylor, LF
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José Negron
3:07 am - 07.18.2025North ShoreFinal: White Sox 10, Pirates 1
• Who: Pirates (39-58) vs. White Sox (32-65)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 98
• When: 6:40 p.m., Eastern
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 79°, cloudy
• Pitchers: LHP Bailey Falter (6-4, 3.79 ERA) vs. RHP Jonathan Cannon (3-7, 4.44 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 183/852/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | White Sox
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Final: Gonzales walked and moved to second base on Alexander Canario's ground out to third. Bart struck out. Henry Davis pinch-hitting for Horwitz ends game with grounder to third.
• Tyler Alexander into game to close it out for Chicago.
• Robert and Sosa are retired, last at-bats for the Pirates coming up.
• Scary line drive back at Mattson that he somehow escapes, fields the ball, and throws out Benintendi.
• Now pitching for the Pirates is Isaac Mattson.
• End of eighth inning: Peguero ground out to shortstop, Pham pulled a liner caught by Montgomery at third, Cutch walked, and Suwinski stares at strike three because that's what he's been taught to do.
• Dan Altavilla is now pitching for the White Sox.
• We've entered the stage of let's swing early and get this over as White Sox go down in order.
• Liover Peguero replaces IKF at SS and Jack Suwinski for Reynolds in right.
• A: 28,899
• End of seventh inning: Bart grounder to second, Horwitz flied out to shallow center, and Hayes lined out to third.
• That inning mercifully comes to an end with Meidroth ground out to IKF. Anyone for Little League seven inning rule tonight?
• RUN: Montgomery strikes out but Taylor clears the bases with a double to left. White Sox 10-1.
• Sosa strikes out to end Ramirez's work for the night as Kelly calls on Genesis Cabrera.
• Ramirez is struggling, walks Robert to load the bases and out comes Marin for a mound visit.
• RUN: Benintendi singles under Horwitz's glove, somehow gets by Gonzales to reach out to right field, where Reynolds can't come up with it either but Chicago holds Vargas at third. Quero scored on the play. White Sox 7-1.
• A wild pitch that pops up behind Bart allows Quero to move to third base, a pitcher later Vargas walks.
• Quero with a double to left-center field that somehow escapes being worse as Cruz missed the ball and fell down, good thing it was the catcher.
• End of sixth inning: Nothing doing as Reynolds flied out to right, Gonzales struck out, and Cruz flied out to left.
• Ramirez does the job striking out Taylor, Meidroth popped up to Gonzales just beyond the infield, and Quero struck out.
• RUN: Montgomery's two-run RBI double just over the glove of Horwitz who leaped up to try to glove it has knocked out Ashcraft from the game as Yohan Ramirez is into the game to hold it to a 6-1 deficit... White Sox 6, Pirates 1.
• Sosa lines a single to left to load the bases.
• First time Ashcraft has walked more than two batters in a game, doubling up his total in the game walking Benintendi and Robert to start this inning.
• End of fifth inning: Pham grounds out to short, IKF advances to third, and Cutch lines sharply to short.
• IKF doubles to the right-center field gap after Hayes had an easy grounder to second.
• After getting Meidroth to fly out to IKF in shallow left, Ashcraft walked Slater and Quero but escapes the jam with an inning ending 5-4-3 doubleplay.
• Braxton Ashcraft is now pitching for the Pirates.
• End of fourth inning: Cruz stranded on second after a strikeout of Bart and a groundout by Horwitz.
• Stolen base No. 30 for Cruz. Second in baseball.
• RUN: No shutout tonight. Cruz follows up a Reynolds double and a Gonzales flyout with an RBI single into right. White Sox, 4-1
• Falter induces a 5-4-3 double play off the bat of Taylor to end the fourth.
• Keeps getting worse. Falter is late getting to the bag and Montgomery legs out an infield single with one out.
• HOME RUN: Robert goes deep to left. First-pitch splitter right down the pipe. That's a seventh homer allowed by Falter over his last three starts. White Sox, 4-0
• End of third inning: Some hard hit balls, but good defense by the Sox. McCutchen gave one a ride to left but Taylor had enough room to make the catch on the track.
• Outstanding catch in center by Robert. Had a long ways to go before laying out for that one. Robs IKF of extra bases.
• Falter allows a leadoff single and retires the final three batters he faces in the third. Struck out Benintendi swinging to end the top half.
• End of second inning: Hayes grounds out. Epic failure there.
• Should have been a run. Horwitz hits a fly ball into shallow left field and Taylor had to slide to make the catch. Cruz didn't tag up, though. Feel like he would have scored easily on that.
• Bart takes advantage of Cruz being on the move. Hits it right to where the second baseman would have been. Bart reaches on a single and Cruz, after a slide into second, advances to third.
• Pirates have their first hit, as Cruz wastes no time sending a first-pitch sinker into center for a single. Had to reach out and get that one, too. Pretty far out of the zone.
• A 17-pitch second for Falter, but better than the first. Retired the Sox in order this time around. He's up to 52 pitches over two, though.
• End of first inning: Cannon retires the top of the Pirates' order in order.
• Sosa flies out to right to end the top of the first. Falter threw just 20 of his 35 pitches for strikes out of the gate. I'd imagine he continues, but Pirates will likely need to get some length out of Ashcraft in this one.
• Braxton Ashcraft's up in the bullpen.
• Back to the home run allowed by Falter, he has now surrendered six homers in three starts this month. He allowed four over 11 starts through May and June.
• RUN: Robert plates Benintendi with an RBI single to center. Four straight baserunners allowed, three on hits, after getting the first two outs. White Sox, 3-0
• RUN: Benintendi sends an RBI double into the gap in right-center. A 2-2 sinker left up in the zone from Falter. White Sox, 2-0
• HOME RUN: Quero sends a liner out to left for a solo shot. A 3-1 fastball from Falter on the bottom part of the zone. Middle of the plate, though. Had to throw a strike and paid for it. White Sox, 1-0
• First pitch: Pirates vs. White Sox, 6:42 p.m., Falter to Meidroth, 77 degrees, cloudy
• For Don Kelly's Pirates:
1. Tommy Pham, LF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Nick Gonzales, 2B
5. Oneil Cruz, CF
6. Joey Bart, C
7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
8. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• Will Venable's starting nine:
1. Chase Meidroth, SS
2. Austin Slater, RF
3. Edgar Quero, C
4. Miguel Vargas, 1B
5. Andrew Benintendi, DH
6. Luis Robert Jr., CF
7. Lenyn Sosa, 2B
8. Colson Montgomery, 3B
9. Michael A. Taylor, LF
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