{"id":106432,"date":"2025-08-30T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106432\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:40:16","slug":"red-sox-payton-tolle-strong-in-mlb-debut-but-lose-to-pirates-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106432\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox&#8217; Payton Tolle strong in MLB debut, but lose to Pirates 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a-term a-term--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/boston-red-sox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRed Sox\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tTolle had a one-hitter through five innings and was lifted after allowing back-to-back singles with one out in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Priates_Red_Sox_Baseball_68003-68b2598860d7f-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-16:9 size-16:9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n\tPittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes throws during the first inning. (AP Photo\/Mark Stockwell) AP\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-article-header__author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy JIMMY GOLEN, Associated Press\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAugust 29, 2025\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>1 minute to read<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Paul Skenes pitched six strong innings, and Tommy Pham and Andrew McCutchen hit back-to-back doubles after the Pirates chased Red Sox phenom Payton Tolle in his major league debut, rallying Pittsburgh to a 4-2 victory on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes (9-9) allowed one earned run on seven hits and a walk, striking out six in six innings. Dennis Santana pitched the ninth to earn his 11th save and give the last-place Pirates their seventh win in nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Called up earlier in the day when World Series clincher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/boston-red-sox\/2025\/08\/29\/red-sox-release-walker-buehler-payton-tolle-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Walker Buehler was released<\/a>, Tolle had a one-hitter through five innings and was lifted after allowing back-to-back singles with one out in the sixth. After shaking hands with manager Alex Cora on the mound, Tolle walked off to a standing ovation, looking to the sky as he left the field.<\/p>\n<p>Pham followed with a line drive off Greg Weissert (6-5) over the center fielder\u2019s head, tying the game 2-all and depriving Tolle of the victory. McCutchen, who had three hits in the game, then doubled to give the Pirates a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Romy Gonzalez had three hits for Boston and Roman Anthony had two, including <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RedSox\/status\/1961585683614867648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a solo homer<\/a>. The Red Sox had won four in a row and seven of their last eight.<\/p>\n<p>Boston scored an unearned run to break a scoreless tie in the fourth when Skenes couldn\u2019t get to Ceddanne Rafaela\u2019s nubber and third baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa threw it wide of first for an error. Masataka Yoshida came around to score from second.<\/p>\n<p>Tolle was the first Red Sox pitcher to strike out eight or more batters in his major league debut since Daisuke Matsuzaka fanned 10 in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Boston RHP Dustin May (7-10) will face Pittsburgh RHP Johan Oviedo (1-0) Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet the latest Boston sports news<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-generic-cta__subtitle\">Receive updates on your favorite Boston teams, straight from our newsroom to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Sox Tolle had a one-hitter through five innings and was lifted after allowing back-to-back singles with one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-106432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}