• That's game. Bart wins it with a deep single to left. Final: Pirates 2, Cardinals 1
• Cutch grounds into a 6-2 fielder's choice. Still bases loaded with one out.
• Reynolds walks to load the bases for Cutch.
• Canario walks.
• IKF will run at second. Canario, Reynolds and Cutch due up.
• ChrisRoycroft enters for the Cardinals.
• Contreras grounds out 4-3. Nicely done there by Lawrence. Have to give a ton of credit to this pitching staff. They've done their jobs today. Offense letting them down massively.
• Nootbaar intentionally walked.
• Lawrence gets Winn to swing through a nasty 2-2 sweeper. Two outs.
• Baker down swinging.
• End of the 12th: IKF retired 4-3. There's more baseball, you guys.
• RUN: Pham delivers with an RBI single to left. All tied again at 1-1
• Frazier down looking at a pitch on the outer edge. Pham's the last hope.
• Pages throws down to third and would have had Hayes there. Throw hits him.
• Hayes advances to third on a flyout to center.
• Hayes will run at second.
• Scott pops out to IKF at short. Cardinals get one.
• Pages hits a chopper to Hayes. Arenado broke for home, then came back to third, but Hayes tags him out. Two down.
• RUN: Walker singles to right, scoring Contreras from third. Cardinals, 1-0
• JordanWalker to the plate to hit for Siani. JustinLawrence will enter to face him.
• Nice play by Endy there at first. Diving stop robs Donovan of a hit and keeps the run from scoring. One out. Intentional walk to Arenado.
• Contreras takes third on a balk called on Borucki.
• End of the 11th: Hayes grounds out to Arenado. Let's play more.
• Bart singles to right, but Canario is gunned down at the plate. Runners on second and third for Hayes. Two outs.
• Three-strikeout day for Cutch. Down looking at a fastball at the bottom of the zone.
• Reynolds walked intentionally.
• Ryan Helsley enters to face Reynolds, McCutchen and Bart. Canario will run at second.
• Borucki gets the job done in the 11th. Contreras flies out to left to end the top half of the inning.
• Nootbaar retired U3. Runner advances to third. Two outs.
• Santana gets Winn swinging at a breaking ball for the first out. He'll exit and turn things over to RyanBorucki, who will face the lefty in Nootbaar.
• End of the 10th: Canario does what IKF should have and flies out to left.
• AlexanderCanario will hit for Suwinski.
• IKF flies out to shallow right. Not what they needed. Two outs.
• Intentional walk to Pham brings up IKF with runners on the corners.
• Endy to third on a 4-3 groundout by Frazier. One out. Can Pham do it again?
• Frazier, Pham and IKF due up in the bottom of the tenth. Endy running at second. JoJoRomero pitching for the Cardinals.
• Luken Baker flies out to center.
• Scott grounds into a fielder's choice. Two outs.
• Pages singles to left and Pham delivers an absolute bullet to the plate. Gets Siani easily trying to score. Huge first out.
• MichaelSiani running at second base.
• End of the ninth: Endy flies out to shallow right. Extra baseball.
• Hayes goes the opposite way for a two-out single to right. Second Pirates hit.
• Bart strikes out swinging.
• Cutch down swinging at a breaking ball out of the zone.
• McCutchen, Bart and Hayes due up in the bottom of the ninth.
• Do the Pirates have a second walk-off winner of the homestand in them?
• Burleson flies out to left. Santana needed just two pitches to record two outs against the Cardinals' four and five hitters.
• Arenado flies out to center on the first pitch he sees from Santana. Two outs.
• Took some time, but Ferguson retires the lefty in Donovan via strikes. He'll exit and Santana will enter to face the righty in Arenado.
• Ferguson heads back out for the ninth. Endy stays in the game to play first -- very good sign there -- and IsiahKiner-Falefa is in at short.
• End of the eighth: Reynolds strikes out swinging for the second time today.
• Two-out walk to Suwinski.
• Valdez lines out to second.
• Pham down swinging for the first out of the eighth. Enmanuel Valdez will hit for Cheng. Assuming he's going to go in at first for Endy.
• Scary moment there. Endy collides with Bart on a pop up near home plate. The ball drops, Hayes picks it up near home plate and tags Saggese out for the final out of the eighth. Endy stayed down for a bit. Still no score.
• Nootbaar lines out to Suwinski in center. Two outs.
• Winn walks and that's going to be it for Keller after 7 1/3 innings. Nice ovation for him as he exits. He deserved better. CalebFerguson will take over with one out and two on. Nootbaar will greet him.
• Saggese singles over the glove of a leaping Frazier at second.
• Scott down swinging. Six strikeouts for Keller.
• Two pitchers up and throwing in the Pirates' bullpen. DennisSantana is one of them. Can't tell who the other is. A lefty for sure.
• With his strikeout of Pagés in the seventh, Keller collected his 700th MLB strikeout. Per the Elias Sports Bureau, Keller is the fastest pitcher in club history to reach 700 strikeouts with Pittsburgh by innings pitched (718 1/3). The previous record was held by Bob Veale, who took 740 innings to reach it. He's also the third-fastest pitcher in team history to reach 700 strikeouts by games (136), behind only Gerrit Cole (123) and Veale (135).
• End of the seventh: Frazier retired U3.
• A: 8,430
• First hit of the day for the Pirates is a single to right by Endy. Two on, two outs for Frazier.
• Pirates hitters didn't strike out at all through the first five innings. Now four strikeouts over the last two innings.
• Bart appears to take one on the left elbow.
• Cutch strikes out on three pitches.
• PhilMaton to pitch the seventh for St. Louis after Fedde held the Pirates hitless over six strong innings.
• Keller gets Pages swinging to end the top of the seventh. A total of 84 pitches -- 58 strikes -- through seven innings. Have to send him back out for the eighth. He's been phenomenal, and deserves to be chasing a win here rather than a no-decision.
• Two-out double to right for Burleson. First Cardinals hit since the second inning. Keller had retired 15 straight batters up until that hit.
• Arenado retired 5-3.
• Cutch still got it. Makes a running catch in right to retire Donovan.
• End of sixth inning: Reynolds down swinging. Swung through three straight pitches
• Call on the field is overturned. No stolen base for Cheng. Two outs.
• Cardinals are challenging the play at second.
• Suwinski is the first Pirates hitter to strike out today. Cheng swipes second on the play, so they have their first runner in scoring position. First big-league steal for Cheng.
• Cheng reaches on an error by Arenado at third. Yet another leadoff baserunner.
• And that's six strong for Keller. Gets Contreras swinging to end the top of the sixth. Should keep going, too. Only at 66 pitches through six. Incredibly effective. It's a shame this offense isn't capable of providing sufficient support.
• Nootbaar retired 4-3.
• And that's why Hayes has a Gold Glove. Didn't need the glove there, though, as he barehands a chopper off the bat of Winn and retires him with a strong throw to first.
• Fedde has yet to allow a hit, but the four walks have surely played a role in his high pitch count. Sitting at 74 through five.
• End of the fifth inning: Pham grounds out to third. No hits for the Pirates and no score.
• Frazier flies out to shallow left-center field. Hayes got a really nice jump there. Think he might have had that bag stolen if Frazier doesn't fly out. Pirates haven't had a runner reach second.
• Endy flies out to left. One out.
• Hayes draws the team's fourth leadoff walk of the day.
• Keller retires Saggese 5-3. He's set down 10 in a row. He's at 53 pitches -- 37 strikes -- through five innings.
• Scott also goes down swinging. Keller only needed three pitches this time. Scott fouled off two straight pitches before swinging through a curveball down and out of the zone.
• Pages down swinging. Wicked slider from Keller. Had to trust it in a 3-2 count.
• Keller has delivered eight first-pitch strikes to the first 14 batters he's faced.
• End of the fourth inning: Bart lines out to right. Still no hits for the home team. I'm sure that's a surprise to no one.
• Cutch grounds into a 6-4-3 double play.
• Reynolds reaches on the third leadoff walk Fedde has allowed today.
• Arenado grounds out and Burleson lines out. Quick fourth for Keller. Six-pitch inning.
• Endy's been quite busy over at first today. He fields a grounder cleanly and takes it over to first himself to retire Donovan.
• End third inning: Suwinski grounds into an inning-ending double play. Pirates still without a hit through three innings. No score.
• Pham walks to lead off the inning and Cheng flies out to left in his first big-league at-bat.
• Endy has no problems with a little blooper that trails into shallow right. Keller gets through St. Louis' 9-1-2 hitters with relative ease. Pretty effective through three innings. Up to 33 pitches -- 22 strikes -- through three innings.
• Nootbaar lines out to center.
• Winn pops out to Endy in foul territory.
• End second inning: Frazier pops out to Winn in shallow center. Quick 1-2-3 inning for Fedde. Still no score.
• Endy retired 4-3.
• Hayes lines out to Winn at short. One away in the home half of the second.
• First strikeout of the day for Keller. Freezes Saggese with a four-seam on the outer edge. Helps him overcome yet another two-out hit allowed. Keller at 24 pitches -- 16 strikes -- through two innings.
• Scott successfully swipes second. Not a bad throw there by Bart, but Scott benefitted from a good jump.
• Two-out single to center for Scott.
• Frazier makes a nice running catch in shallow right to retire Pages. Two outs.
• Cheng has himself a fielding percentage. He retires Burleson 6-3.
• End of first inning: Bart lines out to center. Still no score.
• Reynolds flies out to left and McCutchen pops out in foul territory. Two outs.
• Leadoff walk for Suwinski.
• Arenado grounds out 5-3 to end the top of the first. Keller completes the inning on 11 pitches. Threw seven strikes.
• Donovan lines a single past Frazier and into right.
• Contreras gives one a ride toward the warning track, but Suwinski has enough room to make the catch. Two outs.
• Nootbaar swings at the first pitch and is retired 3-1.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Cardinals, 12:36 p.m., MitchKeller to LarsNootbaar, 42 degrees, sunny
• Oliver Marmol's lineup:
1. Lars Nootbaar, RF 2. Willson Contreras, DH 3. Brendan Donovan, LF 4. Nolan Arenado, 3B 5. Alex Burleson, 1B 6. Pedro Pages, C 7. Victor Scott II, CF 8. Thomas Saggese, 2B 9. Masyn Winn, SS
• Here's DerekShelton's lineup for this rubber match:
1. Jack Suwinski, CF 2. Bryan Reynolds, DH 3. Andrew McCutchen, RF 4. Joey Bart, C 5. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 6. Endy Rodriguez, 1B 7. Adam Frazier, 2B 8. Tommy Pham, LF 9. Tsung-Che Cheng, SS
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10:05 pm - 04.08.2025NORTH SHOREFinal: Pirates 2, Cardinals 1
• Who: Pirates (4-8) vs. Cardinals (5-6)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 13
• When: 12:35 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 45°, partly cloudy
• Pitchers: RHP Mitch Keller (1-1, 7.45 ERA) vs. RHP Erick Fedde (1-1, 7.00 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP 360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 865/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Cardinals
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• That's game. Bart wins it with a deep single to left. Final: Pirates 2, Cardinals 1
• Cutch grounds into a 6-2 fielder's choice. Still bases loaded with one out.
• Reynolds walks to load the bases for Cutch.
• Canario walks.
• IKF will run at second. Canario, Reynolds and Cutch due up.
• Chris Roycroft enters for the Cardinals.
• Contreras grounds out 4-3. Nicely done there by Lawrence. Have to give a ton of credit to this pitching staff. They've done their jobs today. Offense letting them down massively.
• Nootbaar intentionally walked.
• Lawrence gets Winn to swing through a nasty 2-2 sweeper. Two outs.
• Baker down swinging.
• End of the 12th: IKF retired 4-3. There's more baseball, you guys.
• RUN: Pham delivers with an RBI single to left. All tied again at 1-1
• Frazier down looking at a pitch on the outer edge. Pham's the last hope.
• Pages throws down to third and would have had Hayes there. Throw hits him.
• Hayes advances to third on a flyout to center.
• Hayes will run at second.
• Scott pops out to IKF at short. Cardinals get one.
• Pages hits a chopper to Hayes. Arenado broke for home, then came back to third, but Hayes tags him out. Two down.
• RUN: Walker singles to right, scoring Contreras from third. Cardinals, 1-0
• Jordan Walker to the plate to hit for Siani. Justin Lawrence will enter to face him.
• Nice play by Endy there at first. Diving stop robs Donovan of a hit and keeps the run from scoring. One out. Intentional walk to Arenado.
• Contreras takes third on a balk called on Borucki.
• End of the 11th: Hayes grounds out to Arenado. Let's play more.
• Bart singles to right, but Canario is gunned down at the plate. Runners on second and third for Hayes. Two outs.
• Three-strikeout day for Cutch. Down looking at a fastball at the bottom of the zone.
• Reynolds walked intentionally.
• Ryan Helsley enters to face Reynolds, McCutchen and Bart. Canario will run at second.
• Borucki gets the job done in the 11th. Contreras flies out to left to end the top half of the inning.
• Nootbaar retired U3. Runner advances to third. Two outs.
• Santana gets Winn swinging at a breaking ball for the first out. He'll exit and turn things over to Ryan Borucki, who will face the lefty in Nootbaar.
• End of the 10th: Canario does what IKF should have and flies out to left.
• Alexander Canario will hit for Suwinski.
• IKF flies out to shallow right. Not what they needed. Two outs.
• Intentional walk to Pham brings up IKF with runners on the corners.
• Endy to third on a 4-3 groundout by Frazier. One out. Can Pham do it again?
• Frazier, Pham and IKF due up in the bottom of the tenth. Endy running at second. JoJo Romero pitching for the Cardinals.
• Luken Baker flies out to center.
• Scott grounds into a fielder's choice. Two outs.
• Pages singles to left and Pham delivers an absolute bullet to the plate. Gets Siani easily trying to score. Huge first out.
• Michael Siani running at second base.
• End of the ninth: Endy flies out to shallow right. Extra baseball.
• Hayes goes the opposite way for a two-out single to right. Second Pirates hit.
• Bart strikes out swinging.
• Cutch down swinging at a breaking ball out of the zone.
• McCutchen, Bart and Hayes due up in the bottom of the ninth.
• Do the Pirates have a second walk-off winner of the homestand in them?
• Burleson flies out to left. Santana needed just two pitches to record two outs against the Cardinals' four and five hitters.
• Arenado flies out to center on the first pitch he sees from Santana. Two outs.
• Took some time, but Ferguson retires the lefty in Donovan via strikes. He'll exit and Santana will enter to face the righty in Arenado.
• Ferguson heads back out for the ninth. Endy stays in the game to play first -- very good sign there -- and Isiah Kiner-Falefa is in at short.
• End of the eighth: Reynolds strikes out swinging for the second time today.
• Two-out walk to Suwinski.
• Valdez lines out to second.
• Pham down swinging for the first out of the eighth. Enmanuel Valdez will hit for Cheng. Assuming he's going to go in at first for Endy.
• Scary moment there. Endy collides with Bart on a pop up near home plate. The ball drops, Hayes picks it up near home plate and tags Saggese out for the final out of the eighth. Endy stayed down for a bit. Still no score.
• Nootbaar lines out to Suwinski in center. Two outs.
• Winn walks and that's going to be it for Keller after 7 1/3 innings. Nice ovation for him as he exits. He deserved better. Caleb Ferguson will take over with one out and two on. Nootbaar will greet him.
• Saggese singles over the glove of a leaping Frazier at second.
• Scott down swinging. Six strikeouts for Keller.
• Two pitchers up and throwing in the Pirates' bullpen. Dennis Santana is one of them. Can't tell who the other is. A lefty for sure.
• With his strikeout of Pagés in the seventh, Keller collected his 700th MLB strikeout. Per the Elias Sports Bureau, Keller is the fastest pitcher in club history to reach 700 strikeouts with Pittsburgh by innings pitched (718 1/3). The previous record was held by Bob Veale, who took 740 innings to reach it. He's also the third-fastest pitcher in team history to reach 700 strikeouts by games (136), behind only Gerrit Cole (123) and Veale (135).
• End of the seventh: Frazier retired U3.
• A: 8,430
• First hit of the day for the Pirates is a single to right by Endy. Two on, two outs for Frazier.
• Pirates hitters didn't strike out at all through the first five innings. Now four strikeouts over the last two innings.
• Bart appears to take one on the left elbow.
• Cutch strikes out on three pitches.
• Phil Maton to pitch the seventh for St. Louis after Fedde held the Pirates hitless over six strong innings.
• Keller gets Pages swinging to end the top of the seventh. A total of 84 pitches -- 58 strikes -- through seven innings. Have to send him back out for the eighth. He's been phenomenal, and deserves to be chasing a win here rather than a no-decision.
• Two-out double to right for Burleson. First Cardinals hit since the second inning. Keller had retired 15 straight batters up until that hit.
• Arenado retired 5-3.
• Cutch still got it. Makes a running catch in right to retire Donovan.
• End of sixth inning: Reynolds down swinging. Swung through three straight pitches
• Call on the field is overturned. No stolen base for Cheng. Two outs.
• Cardinals are challenging the play at second.
• Suwinski is the first Pirates hitter to strike out today. Cheng swipes second on the play, so they have their first runner in scoring position. First big-league steal for Cheng.
• Cheng reaches on an error by Arenado at third. Yet another leadoff baserunner.
• And that's six strong for Keller. Gets Contreras swinging to end the top of the sixth. Should keep going, too. Only at 66 pitches through six. Incredibly effective. It's a shame this offense isn't capable of providing sufficient support.
• Nootbaar retired 4-3.
• And that's why Hayes has a Gold Glove. Didn't need the glove there, though, as he barehands a chopper off the bat of Winn and retires him with a strong throw to first.
• Fedde has yet to allow a hit, but the four walks have surely played a role in his high pitch count. Sitting at 74 through five.
• End of the fifth inning: Pham grounds out to third. No hits for the Pirates and no score.
• Frazier flies out to shallow left-center field. Hayes got a really nice jump there. Think he might have had that bag stolen if Frazier doesn't fly out. Pirates haven't had a runner reach second.
• Endy flies out to left. One out.
• Hayes draws the team's fourth leadoff walk of the day.
• Keller retires Saggese 5-3. He's set down 10 in a row. He's at 53 pitches -- 37 strikes -- through five innings.
• Scott also goes down swinging. Keller only needed three pitches this time. Scott fouled off two straight pitches before swinging through a curveball down and out of the zone.
• Pages down swinging. Wicked slider from Keller. Had to trust it in a 3-2 count.
• Keller has delivered eight first-pitch strikes to the first 14 batters he's faced.
• End of the fourth inning: Bart lines out to right. Still no hits for the home team. I'm sure that's a surprise to no one.
• Cutch grounds into a 6-4-3 double play.
• Reynolds reaches on the third leadoff walk Fedde has allowed today.
• Arenado grounds out and Burleson lines out. Quick fourth for Keller. Six-pitch inning.
• Endy's been quite busy over at first today. He fields a grounder cleanly and takes it over to first himself to retire Donovan.
• End third inning: Suwinski grounds into an inning-ending double play. Pirates still without a hit through three innings. No score.
• Pham walks to lead off the inning and Cheng flies out to left in his first big-league at-bat.
• Endy has no problems with a little blooper that trails into shallow right. Keller gets through St. Louis' 9-1-2 hitters with relative ease. Pretty effective through three innings. Up to 33 pitches -- 22 strikes -- through three innings.
• Nootbaar lines out to center.
• Winn pops out to Endy in foul territory.
• End second inning: Frazier pops out to Winn in shallow center. Quick 1-2-3 inning for Fedde. Still no score.
• Endy retired 4-3.
• Hayes lines out to Winn at short. One away in the home half of the second.
• First strikeout of the day for Keller. Freezes Saggese with a four-seam on the outer edge. Helps him overcome yet another two-out hit allowed. Keller at 24 pitches -- 16 strikes -- through two innings.
• Scott successfully swipes second. Not a bad throw there by Bart, but Scott benefitted from a good jump.
• Two-out single to center for Scott.
• Frazier makes a nice running catch in shallow right to retire Pages. Two outs.
• Cheng has himself a fielding percentage. He retires Burleson 6-3.
• End of first inning: Bart lines out to center. Still no score.
• Reynolds flies out to left and McCutchen pops out in foul territory. Two outs.
• Leadoff walk for Suwinski.
• Arenado grounds out 5-3 to end the top of the first. Keller completes the inning on 11 pitches. Threw seven strikes.
• Donovan lines a single past Frazier and into right.
• Contreras gives one a ride toward the warning track, but Suwinski has enough room to make the catch. Two outs.
• Nootbaar swings at the first pitch and is retired 3-1.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Cardinals, 12:36 p.m., Mitch Keller to Lars Nootbaar, 42 degrees, sunny
• Oliver Marmol's lineup:
1. Lars Nootbaar, RF
2. Willson Contreras, DH
3. Brendan Donovan, LF
4. Nolan Arenado, 3B
5. Alex Burleson, 1B
6. Pedro Pages, C
7. Victor Scott II, CF
8. Thomas Saggese, 2B
9. Masyn Winn, SS
• Here's Derek Shelton's lineup for this rubber match:
1. Jack Suwinski, CF
2. Bryan Reynolds, DH
3. Andrew McCutchen, RF
4. Joey Bart, C
5. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
6. Endy Rodriguez, 1B
7. Adam Frazier, 2B
8. Tommy Pham, LF
9. Tsung-Che Cheng, SS
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