• Who: Pirates (4-7) vs. Cardinals (4-6)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 12
• When: 6:40 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Weather: 37°, cloudy, 0% chance of rain
• Pitchers: RHP Paul Skenes (1-0, 1.46 ERA) vs. RHP Sonny Gray (1-0, 5.73 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP 360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 865/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Cardinals

► FOLLOW ALONG

• Pham flies out to right field and that's it. Final: Cardinals 5, Pirates 3

• RUN: Bart doubles down the left field line to score Reynolds. He caught a curveball in the middle of the zone. Cardinals, 5-3

• Hayes strikes out on a 3-2 curveball.

• Reynolds pauses on a wild pitch as it ricochets off the backstop. 

• Phil Maton has now entered the game for St. Louis. He'll face Hayes.

• RUN: Cutch drives in Canario for his 1,100th RBI. Cardinals, 5-2. 

• Andrew McCutchen is pinch-hitting for Cruz.

• Reynolds doubles off the left field wall.

• Canario singles on a hard-hit ball to third.

• Jojo Romero is on to close it out for the Cardinals. Top of the order due up.

• Mayza gets Scott swinging at a sinker out of the zone. It's a 1-2-3 inning for the lefty.

• A: 8,291

• Mayza strikes out Winn with a sinker up in the zone.

• Siani flies out to Bart.

• Tim Mayza has entered the game.

• End of eighth inning: IKF grounds out to second.

• Frazier strikes out looking at a fastball low in the zone.

• Rodriguez grounds out to the mound and Leahy takes it himself.

• F7, Pagés. Shugart works a 1-2-3 inning.

• Walker strikes out on a low sinker.

• F6, Burleson.

• End of seventh inning: Pham strikes out swinging at a sweeper outside the zone.

• Bart strikes out swinging.

• Right hander Kyle Leahy entering the game for St. Louis.

• Joey Bart is pinch hitting for Valdez.

• Hayes grounds out to second, Cruz advances to second.

• Cruz gets plunked. He's being attended to by trainers down near first base. Looks like he's staying in the game, but he's not happy.

• Arenado pops up to IKF. 

•.Donovan walks.

• Another one.

• 6-3, Contreras.

• A loud "Sell the team" chant breaks out.

• Scott advances on a wild pitch.

• Scott doubles to left center.

• Winn pops up to first in foul territory.

• Chase Shugart is entering the game. Canario is heading out to right and Pham will switch to left.

• Skenes's day is done. His final line: 6 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 7 K. He threw 98 pitches, 63 strikes.

• End of sixth inning: Reynolds strikes out on a high sinker.

• Canario gets ahold of one but Siani tracks it down at the warning track. Just short of a home run. 

• Alexander Canario pinch-hitting for Suwinski.

• IKF lines out to shortstop.

• Steven Matz has entered the game.

• Gray's day is done. His final line: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 4 K

• Suwinski makes a nice diving catch to rob Siani of a hit. Skenes is up to 98 pitches.

• RUN: Pagés grounds out to score Arenado. Cardinals, 5-1

• Skenes strikes out Walker.

• RUN: Burleson singles to right field, scoring Donovan. Arenado advances to third. Cardinals, 4-1

• Arenado walks.

• Donovan doubles down the right field line.

• End of fifth inning: 4-6-3, Frazier.

• Endy singles.

• Burleson makes a nice diving stop to rob Pham of a hit.

• Skenes strikes out Contreras for the third time tonight. Skenes is up to 75 pitches.

• Scott flies out to Pham.

• Winn grounds out to second.

• End of fourth inning: Valdez strikes out looking at a curveball.

• F8, Hayes.

• Cruz flies out to third.

• HOME RUN: Reynolds sends a 3-1 sinker into the right-field bleacher above the Clemente Wall. Cardinals, 3-1

• 6U, Siani. Skenes needed just eight pitches to get through that inning.

• A throwing error by IKF allows Pagés to reach base. 

• F8, Walker.

• Valdez makes a nice play at first and tosses it to Skenes to get Burleson.

• End of third inning: Suwinski puts a charge into one but it's tracked down on the warning track in center field.

• IKF flies out to second base.

• 3-1, Frazier.

• Pirates put a hurting on Skenes there. He threw 26 pitches as the Cardinals scored three runs.

• Arenado grounds out to third.

• RUN: Donovan singles in Scott. Cardinals, 3-0

• Contreras strikes out on a high fastball.

• RUNS: Scott sends a four-seam fastball to the wall in left center for a triple. Both runners score. Cardinals, 2-0

• Winn singles to left.

• Siani strikes out swinging at a 98 mph fastball right down the heart of the plate. A pure challenge by Skenes there.

• Pagés singles to right field for the first hit off Skenes tonight.

• End of second inning: Rodriguez lines out to a perfectly positioned Winn.

• Pham strikes out looking at a pitch on the outer edge.

• Valdez singles into right.

• Hayes flies out to second base.

• Walker watches a 97.5 mph fastball zip past and catch the low inside corner. That's three strikeouts for Skenes. He's up to 24 pitches.

• Burleson strikes out on three pitches.

• Arenado flies out to left field.

• End of first inning: Cruz strikes out looking on an inside sinker.

• Reynolds' bat cracks as he grounds out to short.

• Suwinski strikes out looking at a sinker.

• 6-3, Donovan. 1-2-3 for Skenes.

• Skenes records his first strikeout of the night on an outside sweeper.

• 4-3, Scott.

• First pitch: Pirates vs. Cardinals, Paul Skenes to Victor Scott II, PNC Park, 6:43 p.m., 38 degrees, partly cloudy

• For Derek Shelton's Pirates:

1. Jack Suwinski, LF
2. Bryan Reynolds, DH
3. Oneil Cruz, CF
4. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
5. Enmanuel Valdez, 1B
6. Tommy Pham, RF
7. Endy Rodriguez, C
8. Adam Frazier, 2B
9. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS

• For Oliver Marmol's visitors:

1. Victor Scott II, LF
2. Willson Contreras, DH
3. Brendan Donovan, 2B
4. Nolan Arenado, 3B
5. Alec Burleson, 1B
6. Jordan Walker, RF
7. Pedro Pagés, C
8. Michael Siani, CF
9. Masyn Winn, SS