• Final: Greene retired on fly out to Cruz. Pirates, 8-4.
• Bednar gets Carpenter swinging for second out.
• Torres walks
• Bednar starts the tenth giving up a deep fly to CF to Keith, moving the runner to third for Torres.
• Cruz strikes out for the fourth time. He's now below .200 for June.
Pham is angry with a fan or a group of them for something during Cruz's at-bat behind home plate. Umpire requested security to eject the fan.
• RUN: IKF hits a single to LF to knock in two. Pirates, 8-4.
• Davis strikes out on 7th pitch of at-bat.
• RUN: Bart RBI single to drive in another run. Pirates, 6-4.
• Triolo gets the automatic walk, Bart will pinch-hit for Suwinski.
• Frazier plays small ball, bunting the runners over.
• Gonzales follows with a single up the middle to center.
• Tigers lose the challenge and AJ Hinch runs out to argue and gets ejected..
• RUN: Hayes slices base hit to RF, Pham just makes it to score. Pirates, 5-4 - pending a challenge by the Tigers.
• Pham will pinch-run for Cutch at second base to start the tenth and Ke'Bryan Hayes hits for Horwitz.
• End of ninth inning: Just the third pitch from Bednar in the inning to get Sweeney to ground out. Brant Hurter will be pitching for the Tigers.
• Rogers strikes out on two pitches from Bednar.
• David Bednar will replace Santana when the game resumes, taking over the 1-2 count against Rogers.
• Tonight's game is scheduled to resume at 10:05 p.m.
• And here comes the tarp. Entering another delay with one out in the ninth. Because why not. Kelly, for one, was not at all happy about this decision. Basically wastes Santana's outing.
• McKinstry flies to Cruz for the first out.
• Dennis Santana replaces Ferguson to start the ninth.
• Cutch strikes out stranding two.
• Cruz strikes out, his third of the game dropping his avg to .218
• IKF singles to 2B as Torres was covering the bag and had to range back to this left to eat the ball.
• Suwinski strikes out, Davis gets things started with a one out walk.
• Rain is starting to pick up here. Those dark clouds don't look good at all.
• Will Vest will pitch in the ninth for the Tigers.
• End of eighth inning: Gonzales drops the ball but recovers in time to get Carpenter, Ferguson fields the ball off to the right of the mound to throw out Torkelson, and Perez strikes out.
• Frazier ground out to second base and Triolo strikes out.
• Tommy Kahnle is out to pitch for Detroit in the 8th and he gets Gonzales to chase for the strike out.
• End of seventh inning: Ferguson gets Carpenter on a line out to Gonzales.
• Torres foul out behind the plate on pop-up caught by Davis. Tough outing for Mattson as he'll be replaced by Ferguson who had been warming up before that Keith home run.
• Run: 2-run home run by Keith just over the wall in left field on a pitch well high and out of the strike zone. Tied, 4-4 and Skenes will get another no-decision.
• Caleb Ferguson is up in the bullpen getting loose.
• Sweeney with a 1-out double to the right-center gap.
• Gonzales with a real nice sliding grab to pop-up throw to retire Rogers.
• Horwitz strikes out swinging, Isaac Mattson coming into the game.
• Cutch walks
• Cruz is first pitch swinging to line out to Carpenter in right field.
• IKF is retired on ground out to third base, Montero is replaced by Matt Gage.
• End of sixth inning: Skenes ends the threat striking out McKinstry for his ninth K to go along with a career high five walks.
• Skenes struck out Greene for the second time, Torkelson lined out to Frazier in left field, and Perez works a walk as Kelly keeps him in the game against McKinstry.
• Skenes back out for the sixth.
• Davis flies out to right to end the top of the sixth.
• Second walk of the night for Suwinski comes with two outs.
• After review, Triolo is ruled out. Torkelson kept that foot on there for just the right amount of time before coming off.
• Triolo reaches on a throwing error by Keith at third. Did a nice job to field that grounder, but the throw apparently took Torkelson off the bag. Tigers are challenging.
• Skenes threw 23 pitches in that fifth. He's up to 89 through five.
• End of fifth inning: Carpenter lines out to Gonzales at second. Damage limited.
• RUNS: Torres drives in Sweeney and Keith with a two-run double to center. Pirates, 4-2
• A lot of confusion here, it seems. Keith grounds into a force and Rogers is going to be out.
• Looks like the umpire called Sweeney out for interference on that ground ball that hit off the glove of Skenes and went to Gonzales. Keith is evidently safe at first.
• Man, Skenes and Davis wondered where that fourth pitch missed. They have a point. Looked like it hit the inside edge. Ends up in a walk to Sweeney. Two on for Keith.
• Rogers reaches on a four-pitch walk.
• Pirates set down in order in the fifth.
• End of fourth inning: Skenes gets Perez to swing through an 0-2 curve out of the zone. He has six strikeouts through four innings.
• Also, don't know how Greene made contact with that 3-2 pitch. Sinker way outside.
• Greene reaches on an infield single. Have to give credit to Gonzales for making that close. Had to throw across his body for that one. Got away from Horwitz, but he would have been safe regardless.
• Cruz goes down looking at a fastball that just catches the bottom part of the zone. Suwinski stranded on second.
• Regarding the home runs already hit tonight, the Pirates have now hit three home runs in a game twice this season. The last time was April 18 against the Guardians at PNC Park. Matches a season high.
• Suwinski reaches on a leadoff walk.
• End of third inning: Skenes uses a first-pitch fastball to induce a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Torres. He's through three innings at 47 pitches.
• Skenes walks Keith to put two on with one out for Torres.
• Rogers delivers the Tigers' first hit of the night. Leadoff double to right.
• Triolo goes down swinging to strand two on.
• Runners move up on a Frazier groundout. Two in scoring position for Triolo.
• Single to right for Gonzales. Two on, one out.
• Horwitz follows with a bloop single into center.
• HOMERUN: McCutchen sends a first-pitch slider over the middle of the plate out and over the wall in left. Pirates, 4-0
• End of first inning: Skenes gets through the first inning on 10 pitches. Induced two groundouts and got Torres swinging.
• Horwitz grounds into an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play.
• McCutchen has his third hit of this doubleheader. First hit of this game. One-out infield single.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Tigers, 6:10 p.m., Holton to Cruz, 71 degrees, cloudy
• Don Kelly's lineup for Game 2:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF 2. Andrew McCutchen, DH 3. Spencer Horwitz, 1B 4. Nick Gonzales, 2B 5. Adam Frazier, LF 6. Jared Triolo, 3B 7. Jack Suwinski, RF 8. Henry Davis, C 9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
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José Negron
12:15 am - 06.19.2025DetroitFinal: Pirates 8, Tigers 4
• Who: Pirates (29-45) vs. Tigers (47-27)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 76
• When: 6:10 p.m.
• Where: Comerica Park
• Weather: 74°, partly cloudy
• Pitchers: RHP Paul Skenes (4-6, 1.78 ERA) vs. LHP Tyler Holton (2-3, 4.09 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 184/845/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Tigers
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Final: Greene retired on fly out to Cruz. Pirates, 8-4.
• Bednar gets Carpenter swinging for second out.
• Torres walks
• Bednar starts the tenth giving up a deep fly to CF to Keith, moving the runner to third for Torres.
• Cruz strikes out for the fourth time. He's now below .200 for June.
Pham is angry with a fan or a group of them for something during Cruz's at-bat behind home plate. Umpire requested security to eject the fan.
• RUN: IKF hits a single to LF to knock in two. Pirates, 8-4.
• Davis strikes out on 7th pitch of at-bat.
• RUN: Bart RBI single to drive in another run. Pirates, 6-4.
• Triolo gets the automatic walk, Bart will pinch-hit for Suwinski.
• Frazier plays small ball, bunting the runners over.
• Gonzales follows with a single up the middle to center.
• Tigers lose the challenge and AJ Hinch runs out to argue and gets ejected..
• RUN: Hayes slices base hit to RF, Pham just makes it to score. Pirates, 5-4 - pending a challenge by the Tigers.
• Pham will pinch-run for Cutch at second base to start the tenth and Ke'Bryan Hayes hits for Horwitz.
• End of ninth inning: Just the third pitch from Bednar in the inning to get Sweeney to ground out. Brant Hurter will be pitching for the Tigers.
• Rogers strikes out on two pitches from Bednar.
• David Bednar will replace Santana when the game resumes, taking over the 1-2 count against Rogers.
• Tonight's game is scheduled to resume at 10:05 p.m.
• And here comes the tarp. Entering another delay with one out in the ninth. Because why not. Kelly, for one, was not at all happy about this decision. Basically wastes Santana's outing.
• McKinstry flies to Cruz for the first out.
• Dennis Santana replaces Ferguson to start the ninth.
• Cutch strikes out stranding two.
• Cruz strikes out, his third of the game dropping his avg to .218
• IKF singles to 2B as Torres was covering the bag and had to range back to this left to eat the ball.
• Suwinski strikes out, Davis gets things started with a one out walk.
• Rain is starting to pick up here. Those dark clouds don't look good at all.
• Will Vest will pitch in the ninth for the Tigers.
• End of eighth inning: Gonzales drops the ball but recovers in time to get Carpenter, Ferguson fields the ball off to the right of the mound to throw out Torkelson, and Perez strikes out.
• Frazier ground out to second base and Triolo strikes out.
• Tommy Kahnle is out to pitch for Detroit in the 8th and he gets Gonzales to chase for the strike out.
• End of seventh inning: Ferguson gets Carpenter on a line out to Gonzales.
• Torres foul out behind the plate on pop-up caught by Davis. Tough outing for Mattson as he'll be replaced by Ferguson who had been warming up before that Keith home run.
• Run: 2-run home run by Keith just over the wall in left field on a pitch well high and out of the strike zone. Tied, 4-4 and Skenes will get another no-decision.
• Caleb Ferguson is up in the bullpen getting loose.
• Sweeney with a 1-out double to the right-center gap.
• Gonzales with a real nice sliding grab to pop-up throw to retire Rogers.
• Horwitz strikes out swinging, Isaac Mattson coming into the game.
• Cutch walks
• Cruz is first pitch swinging to line out to Carpenter in right field.
• IKF is retired on ground out to third base, Montero is replaced by Matt Gage.
• End of sixth inning: Skenes ends the threat striking out McKinstry for his ninth K to go along with a career high five walks.
• Skenes struck out Greene for the second time, Torkelson lined out to Frazier in left field, and Perez works a walk as Kelly keeps him in the game against McKinstry.
• Skenes back out for the sixth.
• Davis flies out to right to end the top of the sixth.
• Second walk of the night for Suwinski comes with two outs.
• After review, Triolo is ruled out. Torkelson kept that foot on there for just the right amount of time before coming off.
• Triolo reaches on a throwing error by Keith at third. Did a nice job to field that grounder, but the throw apparently took Torkelson off the bag. Tigers are challenging.
• Skenes threw 23 pitches in that fifth. He's up to 89 through five.
• End of fifth inning: Carpenter lines out to Gonzales at second. Damage limited.
• RUNS: Torres drives in Sweeney and Keith with a two-run double to center. Pirates, 4-2
• A lot of confusion here, it seems. Keith grounds into a force and Rogers is going to be out.
• Looks like the umpire called Sweeney out for interference on that ground ball that hit off the glove of Skenes and went to Gonzales. Keith is evidently safe at first.
• Man, Skenes and Davis wondered where that fourth pitch missed. They have a point. Looked like it hit the inside edge. Ends up in a walk to Sweeney. Two on for Keith.
• Rogers reaches on a four-pitch walk.
• Pirates set down in order in the fifth.
• End of fourth inning: Skenes gets Perez to swing through an 0-2 curve out of the zone. He has six strikeouts through four innings.
• Also, don't know how Greene made contact with that 3-2 pitch. Sinker way outside.
• Greene reaches on an infield single. Have to give credit to Gonzales for making that close. Had to throw across his body for that one. Got away from Horwitz, but he would have been safe regardless.
• Cruz goes down looking at a fastball that just catches the bottom part of the zone. Suwinski stranded on second.
• Regarding the home runs already hit tonight, the Pirates have now hit three home runs in a game twice this season. The last time was April 18 against the Guardians at PNC Park. Matches a season high.
• Suwinski reaches on a leadoff walk.
• End of third inning: Skenes uses a first-pitch fastball to induce a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Torres. He's through three innings at 47 pitches.
• Skenes walks Keith to put two on with one out for Torres.
• Rogers delivers the Tigers' first hit of the night. Leadoff double to right.
• Triolo goes down swinging to strand two on.
• Runners move up on a Frazier groundout. Two in scoring position for Triolo.
• Single to right for Gonzales. Two on, one out.
• Horwitz follows with a bloop single into center.
• HOME RUN: McCutchen sends a first-pitch slider over the middle of the plate out and over the wall in left. Pirates, 4-0
• End of second inning: McKinstry pops out to IKF at short.
• Skenes struck out the first two batters of the second before allowing a walk to Perez.
• Montero strikes out Davis and gets IKF to ground out. Pirates get three runs on three hits. Some early support for Skenes.
• Suwinski grounds out to the pitcher and that's it for Holton. Keider Montero enters.
• HOME RUN: Triolo gets in on the fun. He sends a two-run shot to center. The run total from the first game has already been surpassed. Pirates, 3-0
• Frazier follows with a single to right.
• HOME RUN: Gonzales goes deep to left. Second of the season and first for him since opening day. Pirates, 1-0
• End of first inning: Skenes gets through the first inning on 10 pitches. Induced two groundouts and got Torres swinging.
• Horwitz grounds into an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play.
• McCutchen has his third hit of this doubleheader. First hit of this game. One-out infield single.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Tigers, 6:10 p.m., Holton to Cruz, 71 degrees, cloudy
• Don Kelly's lineup for Game 2:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Andrew McCutchen, DH
3. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
4. Nick Gonzales, 2B
5. Adam Frazier, LF
6. Jared Triolo, 3B
7. Jack Suwinski, RF
8. Henry Davis, C
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS
• For A.J. Hinch's Tigers:
1. Colt Keith, 3B
2. Gleyber Torres, 2B
3. Kerry Carpenter, RF
4. Riley Greene, DH
5. Spencer Torkelson, 1B
6. Wenceel Perez, CF
7. Zach McKinstry, LF
8. Jake Rogers, C
9. Trey Sweeney, SS
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