Final Score: Pirates 5 Giants 4
Why The Pirates Won: Jack AAA Suwinski hit a 2-run homer. He scored the winning run in the bottom of the 9th. It still doesn’t promote up to the major league level. It is nice to see one of the AAA boys have a good game. Even though the Pirates scored 5 runs, their offense was pretty much non-existent. They only had 6 hits. They needed help from the Giants. They got it in the form of 2 errors, 3 walks, and one hit batter. The Pirates were quite helpful to the Giants. They walked 5, with 3 of the walks scoring. One walk accounted for an RBI. There was not much earning of runs in this game. Johan Oviedo had a 1-inning start. He threw 43 pitches. He walked 3, giving up 2 runs and 2 hits. He did strike out the side. Kyle Nicolas walked the first two batters in the fifth. He almost got out of it, getting the next two outs with no one advancing. Then Jung Hoo Lee tripled in the 2 runs to extend the lead to 4-1. The bullpen shut the Giants down the rest of the way, and the Pirates came back.
The Key Moments Of The Game: Jack Suwinski was in the middle of the comeback. He missed an opportunity in the bottom of the 4th. He did not produce with runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out. In the bottom of the 7th, the walk would come back to haunt the Giants. They walked Peguero to start the inning. Up to the plate came AAA Jack. In a battle royale with pitcher Carson Seymour, he fouled off 5 straight pitches. He took the 8th pitch of the at-bat for a ball. He took the 9th pitch and sent it 371 feet into the seats to make it 4-3 Giants. A very surprising home run, to say the least. It raised his average to .113. The score stayed that way until the bottom of the 9th. The inning started out with, what else, a walk to Andrew McCutchen. AAA Alexander Canario ran for McCutchen. Bryan Reynolds pinch-hit for Peguero. Why, I don’t know. He struck out. AAA Suwinski came up. He took two called strikes, but one was a bad call. He took the third pitch. It was borderline but called a ball. He fouled off the next two pitches. The 6th pitch drilled him right in the forearm. Joey Bart battled for 6 pitches. On a 1-2 count, he took a pretty good slider and drilled it just over the shortstop’s head. This scored Canario and Suwinski scurried for third. He just beat the throw. An aggressive move that forced the infield to be in. Henry Davis pinch-ran for Bart. He went to 2nd on defensive indifference. Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit a little chopper to 1st baseman Rafael Devers. His throw was just high enough that Suwinski slid under the tag, with his hand barely touching the plate. The Pirates had the walk-off win.
Next Game: Tonight, Giants in Pittsburgh. We will see if the Pirates can continue their mastery over the Giants. Mike Burrows will go tonight for the Pirates. In his last 3 starts, he has gone 17 innings, giving up only 3 runs. He has struck out 18 and walked 4. He will be going up against Logan Webb for the Giants. The Pirates only started one AAA player yesterday, Jack Suwinski. He did shine; he hit a 2-run homer and scored the winning run. This will probably cause them to start more of them tonight.
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