They did, and then some, taking the first game of the doubleheader from the Reds 10 – 4.
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Cincinnati Reds’ Adam Duvall (23) is congratulated by Jose Peraza (9) after hitting a three-run home run off Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Jameson Taillon during the third inning in the first baseball game in a doubleheader, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, in Cincinnati. Andrew McCutchen got things started for Pittsburgh with an RBI double in the first inning. One of Nova’s best starts with the Pirates came against Cincinnati on September 8, when he allowed one run in a complete-game win.Straily, 27, is the veteran in the Reds rotation and did not show much fatigue at the end of the long season when he held Milwaukee to two runs and three hits in eight innings to earn a win on Tuesday. Wade LeBlanc pitched the last three innings with a six-run lead to earn himself one of those goofy “three inning rule” saves.
NOTES: Pirates LF Starling Marte missed his 12th straight game with lower back spasms.
“That’s deflating”, Manager Bryan Price said.
I am excited to see what Trevor Williams can do in his first Major League start today. “I was running out of gas”. Phillips redeemed himself somewhat by snaring a scorched ball from the next batter Cervelli and managing to record an out, but Sean Rodriguez immediately followed with a two-run homer a couple rows into the right-center field seats. “It’s not absolutely his last start”.
Pirates: Ivan Nova (12-6) starts the final game of the series on Sunday.
BALTIMORE – Evan Longoria homered, tripled and scored three runs to help Tampa Bay beat Baltimore, blunting the Orioles’ playoff push. Pending the Mariners’ late game against Houston, Texas needed a combination of seven wins or Seattle losses to guarantee first place.
The Orioles have lost two of three to the last-place Rays in a series that ends Sunday. DeSclafani can match the career high of nine wins he set last season with a win over the Pirates.
With Saturday’s start, Finnegan has now pitched 167 innings this season with an ERA of 4.10.
The Reds halved the lead in the bottom of the third. He sent the next pitch over the center-field wall – his eighth career homer off Tillman in 63 at-bats. “Offense showed up both games”.
Williams went 10-6 with a 2.42 ERA in 21 appearances including 20 starts at Triple-A Indianapolis, where he posted a 0.98 ERA in six starts during the month of August.
The Rays added two unearned runs in the eighth when Mikie Mahtook hit a bases-loaded single after an error by first baseman Chris Davis.
David Freese was next up, and he had a 2-2 count when he hit a seeing-eye single back up the middle to plate two more runs. The Yankees, already four games back for the AL’s second wild card coming in, dropped seven games behind the Red Sox in the AL East. He replaced John Jaso at first base in the sixth. Rookie Gary Sanchez hit his 15th home run since his August 3 recall from the minors, a two-run drive.
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The bullpen struggles explain why the Reds enter Saturday with an ugly 62-84 record even though the team has a decent lineup and some promising young starting pitchers. He missed the 2014 and ’15 seasons while recovering from Tommy John surgery and an operation to fix a hernia. “They’re seeing balls. They’re not missing pitches”. “Team effort all over the place for 18 innings”.
