Yohan Ramírez escaped bases-loaded jams in the 10th and 11th innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates took advantage of a throwing error by Caleb Thielbar to score the go-ahead run in a win over the Chicago Cubs
Yohan Ramírez escaped bases-loaded jams in the 10th and 11th innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates took advantage of a throwing error by Caleb Thielbar to score the go-ahead run in a 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday that clinched the three-game series .
Video above: Top stories, weather from WGAL News 8. Alex Bregman’s RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning on an 0-2 pitch off Dennis Santana tied the score 3-3 but the NL Central-leading Pirates rebounded and won for the eighth time in 10 games, improving to 2-0 this season in series against division rivals.Oneil Cruz was 4 for 5 with a double, becoming the first Pittsburgh player with at least four hits and three stolen bases in a game since Matt Lawton on July 26, 2005, and Nick Yorke had three hits.Chicago stranded 16 runners and went 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position. Michael Busch went 0 for 3 and is hitless in 30 at-bats.Pittsburgh went ahead in the 11th when Brandon Lowe hit a two-out grounder to Thielbar , who bounced his throw to the infield side of first, and the ball bounced off Matt Shaw’s mitt for an error that allowed Mitt Gonzales to score from second. Lowe was credited with an infield single.Ramírez got out of the 10th when Dansby Swanson grounded out. Then in the 11th, Ramírez threw wildly past first on Nico Hoerner’s leadoff comebacker for an error that advanced Swanson, the automatic runner, to third as Hoerner took second.Matt Shaw flied out to medium right field, Bregman fouled out and an intentional walk to Ian Happ loaded the bases. Seiya Suzuki got ahead 3-0 in the count, tool a called strike and then fouled out.Pirates starter Braxton Ashcraft struck out a career-best nine in five innings while allowing a run on Hoerner’s fifth-inning RBI groundout, which cut the Cubs’ deficit to 3-1.Cubs starter Edward Cabrera gave up three runs, eight hits and three walks in five innings.Up next Pittsburgh RHP Bubba Chandler and Cubs RHP Jameson Taillon start Sunday.
Pittsburgh Pirates Yohan Ramirez Ramírez Chicago Cubs Throwing Error 11Th Inning Nico Hoerner Hit Pittsburgh Pirates Runner Go-Ahead Run Three-Game Series Alex Bregman Basis Matt Shaw Caleb Thielbar Intentional Walk
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