{"id":107132,"date":"2025-08-30T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/107132\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:38:15","slug":"tolles-strong-mlb-debut-spoiled-by-skenes-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/107132\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolle&#8217;s strong MLB debut spoiled by Skenes, Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<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:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/boston-redsox-buehler-mlb-7256d970859d7ac34cad5351e047b1c0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Payton Tolle gets a standing ovation after a fantastic Major League debut at Fenway Park \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tnq0rAa81o\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Tnq0rAa81o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1961588276940116295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 30, 2025<\/a><\/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, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1961586631581847905\" rel=\"nofollow\">including a solo homer<\/a>. The Red Sox had won four in a row and seven of their last eight.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Boston scored an unearned run to break a scoreless tie in the fourth when Skenes couldn&#8217;t get to Ceddanne Rafaela&#8217;s 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>Key stat<\/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>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Boston RHP Dustin May (7-10) will face Pittsburgh RHP Johan Oviedo (1-0) Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Paul Skenes pitched six strong innings, and Tommy Pham and Andrew McCutchen hit back-to-back doubles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-107132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}