Gameday 71: Pirates look for series win on Father's Day

After splitting the first two, Sunday will decide Pirates/Rockies series

Jun 16, 2024

The Pittsburgh Pirates will look to clinch their series on the road against the Colorado Rockies. They will play a day game on Father’s Day before heading back to Pittsburgh.

Nick Gonzales picked up another couple of hits, including his fifth home run of the season. He also now has 25 RBI. Andrew McCutchen reached double-digit home runs on the year after hitting his 10th last night.

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Jared Jones gave up six runs on six hits and four walks while striking out six in 4.2 innings pitched.

Former St. Louis Cardinal Dakota Hudson will pitch for the Rockies, with an expected first pitch of 3:10 pm ET.

Pirates Lineup

DH - Andrew McCutchen

LF - Bryan Reynolds

SS - Oneil Cruz

2B - Nick Gonzales

1B - Rowdy Tellez

3B - Jared Triolo

RF - Jack Suwinski

CF - Michael A. Taylor

C - Jason Delay

Rockies Lineup

RF - Charlie Blackmon

SS - Ezequiel Tovar

3B - Ryan McMahon

C - Jacob Stallings

1B - Michael Toglia

LF - Nolan Jones

CF - Jake Cave

DH - Hunter Goodman

2B - Adael Amador

Pitching Matchup

PIT - Josh Fleming (1-1, 5.68 ERA, 19 IP, BB, 13 K)

COL - Dakota Hudson (2-8, 4.87 ERA, 68.1 IP, 35 BB, 36 K)

Yesterday’s Feature

I take a look at Carlos Mateo, an international signing who got a higher bonus than Jun-Seok Shim. Plus some other observations from the FCL Pirates’ doubleheader this past Thursday.

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FCL Observations: Looking past the control issues of Carlos Mateo

Right-handed pitcher Carlos Mateo put together quite the stat line last year during the Dominican Summer League. In just 12 innings pitched, Mateo walked 30 batters and threw another 16 wild pitches. That’s over a wild pitch per inning while walking 34.9% of the batters he would face that season…

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Today’s Feature

We recently updated our midseason Top 25 prospects in the Pirates system. These names aren’t on the list, but they are gaining momentum and could make it by the end of the season.

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Bucs on Deck Top 25: Who missed the list, but is gaining momentum?

By doing just a Top 25, I knew we’d leave a few more well-known names off our midseason update. We could have gone further to get more names on the list, but in the end, it was just a crapshoot once we reached a certain point. Some names were left off that have already been brought up in the comments, so I wanted to go through some pros…

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Bucs on Deck Top 25: Midseason updated list

With graduations, the Pirates lost some of their top-rated and highly-drafted prospects at the beginning of the season. They will also lose Paul Skenes at some point, potentially creating a multi-prospect race for who will be at the top of the system…

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