Gameday 149: Can the Pirates bounce back after blowing late lead?
The Pirates dropped game one after blowing a late lead, can they rebound Saturday?
In what was a back and forth game one, the Yankees took a late ninth inning lead and eventually took Friday nights opener.
Ke’Bryan Hayes picked up three hits, driving in a pair of runs and the first four of the lineup all picked up RBI.
Struggling with his control, Johan Oviedo walked five batters over five innings, but still left the game in position to pick up the win.
Luis Ortiz will get the start for the Pirates on Saturday after pitching 5.1 one-run innings his last time around against the Atlanta Braves where he also didn’t pick up a strikeout.
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Pitching Matchup
PIT - Luis Ortiz (4-4, 4.66 ERA)
NYY - TBD
Pirates Lineup
2B - Ji-Hwan Bae
LF - Bryan Reynolds
3B - Ke’Bryan Hayes
CF - Jack Suwinski
C - Endy Rodriguez
RF - Josh Palacios
DH - Henry Davis
1B - Alfonso Rivas
SS - Liover Peguero
In a perfect wold Bae’s contact quality would be average, don’t have the stats, but he fouls off so many meatballs!
Wow, called strike 3 on Jack and the first two called strikes on Palacios were balls. Two strikeouts should both have been walks. Robo umps can’t come soon enough.