• Who: Pirates (39-59) vs. White Sox (33-65) • What: MLB regular season, Game 99 • When: 6:40 p.m., Eastern • Where: PNC Park • Weather: 83°, cloudy • Pitchers: RHP MikeBurrows (1-3, 4.83 ERA) vs. RHP AdrianHouser (5-2, 1.56 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: Cutch lined out to right, Reynolds doubles down right field line, Gonzales pops up behind the plate and was called out on interference, and Cruz flies out to left. White Sox 10-4.
• Rojas strikes out and Wikelman Gonzales will pitch the ninth for White Sox.
• Robert is retired on groundout to Horwitz with Mlodzinski covering first. Baldwin fly out to Reynolds in right, and Sosa doubles to center. Is that Sammy out there hitting?
• End of eighth inning: Horwitz walks, Davis strikes out, IKF strikes, and Pham pops up to first base.
• Jordan Leasure now pitching for Chicago - no jokes on how easy this inning will be for him.
• Teel strikes out to end the top of the inning.
• Meidroth grounder to IKF, Benintendi fly out to Cruz in front of Pham in left field, and now Vargas reaches second on a double.
• A: 38,041 - third sellout of the season.
• End of seventh inning: Gonzales soft liner to short, Cruz is easy chopper to first, and Hayes grounds out to third.
• Brandon Eisert pitching for White Sox.
• Tauchman flies out to Pham in left.
• RUN: Infield in, Sosa rips a single to left to bring both runners in. More 'sell the team' chants. White Sox 10-4.
• Robert walks and more 'sell the team' chants... Baldwin sacrifice bunt moves runners to second and third.
• Teel continues the bullpen pounding as he doubles off a fan reaching over the Clemente Wall. Replay review confirms, no home run.
• End of sixth inning: Reynolds strikes out.
• Davis grounds out to short, IKF singles to left, Pham pops out to third base, and Cutch singles to right center field to advance IKF to third.
• Steven Wilson will start the inning on the mound for the White Sox.
• And inning ends with IKF securing the last out. White Sox scored six runs on six hits and 11 batters to the plate.
• Now Mattson walks Benintendi bringing more boos and that brings Kelly out for a pitching change, it'll be Carmen Mlodzinski to get some length for the bullpen.
• RUNS: Tauchman clears the bases with a double into right-center. Then, Meidroth adds an RBI single. White Sox, 8-4
• Mattson hits Sosa with a 3-2 pitch. Bases are loaded with one out.
• Isaac Mattson enters for Ferguson.
• RUN: Austin Slater drives in a run with a single to right. Four straight hits off of Ferguson after recording the first out. Tied at 4-4
• RUN: Robert sends a single into right to plate Vargas. Pirates, 4-3
• Swinging bunt for Teel. Runners on the corners for Robert.
• One-out double for Vargas. Fastball down the middle from Ferguson.
• Caleb Ferguson is now pitching.
• End of fifth inning: Cruz strikes out but for unknown reasons (or maybe not) Hayes is intentionally walked and as planned Horwitz grounds out.
• RUN: Cutch singles to left and advances to second base on a passed ball. Gonzales hits a double off the Clemente Wall to bring in Cutch. Tyler Gilbert now into game to pitch for the White Sox. Pirates 4-2.
• Meidroth grounds out. Burrows was 45 pitches through four inning and then it took 31 to get out of the fifth.
• Burrows hitting the wall in the fifth here as he walks Tauchman, which sends out Marin for a visit.
• RUN: And just like that, another run scores all the way from first as Rojas doubles down the line in right as the ball skips away from Reynolds.
• RUN: Sosa lifts a single to left to bring in Robert. The give back run problem for this team is something else. Pirates 3-1.
• Montgomery takes a seat, Burrows strikes him out, 6th of the game for him.
• Robert steals third, Davis almost had him.
• Teel strikes out looking, Robert hits a ball just out of Horwitz's reach, Gonzales throws to first as Burrows raced to the bag but errant throw allows him to advance. Kelly and training staff are out talking to Burrows as he went down to the ground on the play at first. He'll stick it out.
• End of fourth inning: Pham hits a hard grounder right under Horwitz that Montgomery somehow saw and was able to grab it and flip to second base.
• RUN: Horwitz walks, Davis struck out, and IKF singles to center. Pirates 3-0.
• RUN: Hayes hits a two-run double to right-center field. Pirates 2-0.
• Cruz goes from a 3-0 count to striking out, the third caught-looking for the team so far.
• Gonzales follows with a single to left field. A mound visit for Hauser.
• Reynolds follows his first inning pulled single with a single up the middle. When he's hitting to center like that after being on top of the ball in the first, that's a good sign.
• Message sent. Burrows is dealing. Another 1-2-3 inning as Meidroth grounder to Gonzales in shallow right field, Benintendi strike out, and Vargas lined out to IKF.
• End of third inning: IKF is caught looking, Pham grounds out to shortstop, and Cutch grounds out to second base.
• After striking out Montgomery, Burrows walks Sosa but works around it as Cruz tracked down a Rojas fly out and Tauchman grounder to Gonzales.
• End of second inning: Davis does what Hayes and Horwitz couldn't do, get the ball to the outfield but that's the third out and a huge wasted opportunity.
• Horwitz stares at strike three... and some more ....
• That was close, Hayes lines out to third base and Cruz just gets back to the bag.
• Cruz legs out a leadoff triple to begin the second inning as the ball rolled all the way to the center field fence.
• After Burrows' 7-pitch first inning, he has another easy and really quick second throwing 12 pitches. I think he's bouncing back from that last start. Vargas struck out, Teel grounder to Gonzales, and Robert bounced out to Hayes.
• End of first inning: Pirates get three hits, but nothing to show for it. Reynolds and Gonzales had back-to-back hits with two outs, but Gonzales is caught trying to stretch it into a double. Can't make the last out there when runs are hard enough to come by as it is.
• Probably one of the quickest innings we've seen all year. Burrows needs just seven pitches to get through the top of the Sox order. Struck out Benintendi swinging to end the first.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. White Sox, 6:41 p.m., Burrows to Tauchman, 84 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. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 8. Henry Davis, C 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• Will Venable's starting nine:
1. Mike Tauchman, RF 2. Chase Meidroth, 2B 3. Andrew Benintendi, LF 4. Miguel Vargas, 1B 5. Kyle Teel, C 6. Luis Robert Jr., CF 7. Colson Montgomery, SS 8. Lenyn Sosa, DH 9. Josh Rojas, 3B
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José Negron
10:21 pm - 07.18.2025North ShoreFinal: White Sox 10, Pirates 4
• Who: Pirates (39-59) vs. White Sox (33-65)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 99
• When: 6:40 p.m., Eastern
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 83°, cloudy
• Pitchers: RHP Mike Burrows (1-3, 4.83 ERA) vs. RHP Adrian Houser (5-2, 1.56 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: Cutch lined out to right, Reynolds doubles down right field line, Gonzales pops up behind the plate and was called out on interference, and Cruz flies out to left. White Sox 10-4.
• Rojas strikes out and Wikelman Gonzales will pitch the ninth for White Sox.
• Robert is retired on groundout to Horwitz with Mlodzinski covering first. Baldwin fly out to Reynolds in right, and Sosa doubles to center. Is that Sammy out there hitting?
• End of eighth inning: Horwitz walks, Davis strikes out, IKF strikes, and Pham pops up to first base.
• Jordan Leasure now pitching for Chicago - no jokes on how easy this inning will be for him.
• Teel strikes out to end the top of the inning.
• Meidroth grounder to IKF, Benintendi fly out to Cruz in front of Pham in left field, and now Vargas reaches second on a double.
• A: 38,041 - third sellout of the season.
• End of seventh inning: Gonzales soft liner to short, Cruz is easy chopper to first, and Hayes grounds out to third.
• Brandon Eisert pitching for White Sox.
• Tauchman flies out to Pham in left.
• RUN: Infield in, Sosa rips a single to left to bring both runners in. More 'sell the team' chants. White Sox 10-4.
• Robert walks and more 'sell the team' chants... Baldwin sacrifice bunt moves runners to second and third.
• Teel continues the bullpen pounding as he doubles off a fan reaching over the Clemente Wall. Replay review confirms, no home run.
• End of sixth inning: Reynolds strikes out.
• Davis grounds out to short, IKF singles to left, Pham pops out to third base, and Cutch singles to right center field to advance IKF to third.
• Steven Wilson will start the inning on the mound for the White Sox.
• And inning ends with IKF securing the last out. White Sox scored six runs on six hits and 11 batters to the plate.
• Now Mattson walks Benintendi bringing more boos and that brings Kelly out for a pitching change, it'll be Carmen Mlodzinski to get some length for the bullpen.
• RUNS: Tauchman clears the bases with a double into right-center. Then, Meidroth adds an RBI single. White Sox, 8-4
• Mattson hits Sosa with a 3-2 pitch. Bases are loaded with one out.
• Isaac Mattson enters for Ferguson.
• RUN: Austin Slater drives in a run with a single to right. Four straight hits off of Ferguson after recording the first out. Tied at 4-4
• RUN: Robert sends a single into right to plate Vargas. Pirates, 4-3
• Swinging bunt for Teel. Runners on the corners for Robert.
• One-out double for Vargas. Fastball down the middle from Ferguson.
• Caleb Ferguson is now pitching.
• End of fifth inning: Cruz strikes out but for unknown reasons (or maybe not) Hayes is intentionally walked and as planned Horwitz grounds out.
• RUN: Cutch singles to left and advances to second base on a passed ball. Gonzales hits a double off the Clemente Wall to bring in Cutch. Tyler Gilbert now into game to pitch for the White Sox. Pirates 4-2.
• Meidroth grounds out. Burrows was 45 pitches through four inning and then it took 31 to get out of the fifth.
• Burrows hitting the wall in the fifth here as he walks Tauchman, which sends out Marin for a visit.
• RUN: And just like that, another run scores all the way from first as Rojas doubles down the line in right as the ball skips away from Reynolds.
• RUN: Sosa lifts a single to left to bring in Robert. The give back run problem for this team is something else. Pirates 3-1.
• Montgomery takes a seat, Burrows strikes him out, 6th of the game for him.
• Robert steals third, Davis almost had him.
• Teel strikes out looking, Robert hits a ball just out of Horwitz's reach, Gonzales throws to first as Burrows raced to the bag but errant throw allows him to advance. Kelly and training staff are out talking to Burrows as he went down to the ground on the play at first. He'll stick it out.
• End of fourth inning: Pham hits a hard grounder right under Horwitz that Montgomery somehow saw and was able to grab it and flip to second base.
• RUN: Horwitz walks, Davis struck out, and IKF singles to center. Pirates 3-0.
• RUN: Hayes hits a two-run double to right-center field. Pirates 2-0.
• Cruz goes from a 3-0 count to striking out, the third caught-looking for the team so far.
• Gonzales follows with a single to left field. A mound visit for Hauser.
• Reynolds follows his first inning pulled single with a single up the middle. When he's hitting to center like that after being on top of the ball in the first, that's a good sign.
• Message sent. Burrows is dealing. Another 1-2-3 inning as Meidroth grounder to Gonzales in shallow right field, Benintendi strike out, and Vargas lined out to IKF.
• End of third inning: IKF is caught looking, Pham grounds out to shortstop, and Cutch grounds out to second base.
• After striking out Montgomery, Burrows walks Sosa but works around it as Cruz tracked down a Rojas fly out and Tauchman grounder to Gonzales.
• End of second inning: Davis does what Hayes and Horwitz couldn't do, get the ball to the outfield but that's the third out and a huge wasted opportunity.
• Horwitz stares at strike three... and some more ....
• That was close, Hayes lines out to third base and Cruz just gets back to the bag.
• Cruz legs out a leadoff triple to begin the second inning as the ball rolled all the way to the center field fence.
• After Burrows' 7-pitch first inning, he has another easy and really quick second throwing 12 pitches. I think he's bouncing back from that last start. Vargas struck out, Teel grounder to Gonzales, and Robert bounced out to Hayes.
• End of first inning: Pirates get three hits, but nothing to show for it. Reynolds and Gonzales had back-to-back hits with two outs, but Gonzales is caught trying to stretch it into a double. Can't make the last out there when runs are hard enough to come by as it is.
• Probably one of the quickest innings we've seen all year. Burrows needs just seven pitches to get through the top of the Sox order. Struck out Benintendi swinging to end the first.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. White Sox, 6:41 p.m., Burrows to Tauchman, 84 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. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
8. Henry Davis, C
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• Will Venable's starting nine:
1. Mike Tauchman, RF
2. Chase Meidroth, 2B
3. Andrew Benintendi, LF
4. Miguel Vargas, 1B
5. Kyle Teel, C
6. Luis Robert Jr., CF
7. Colson Montgomery, SS
8. Lenyn Sosa, DH
9. Josh Rojas, 3B
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