{"id":596096,"date":"2026-04-11T02:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:37:26","slug":"bryan-reynolds-homers-as-pittsburgh-pirates-blank-chicago-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596096\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Reynolds homers as Pittsburgh Pirates blank Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Bryan Reynolds<\/a> hit a two-run homer and Carmen Mlodzinski<\/a> pitched six-hit ball into the sixth inning, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> beat the Chicago Cubs<\/a> 2-0 on Friday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh was shut down by Shota Imanaga<\/a> before breaking through against Caleb Thielbar<\/a> in the seventh. Ryan O\u2019Hearn hit a leadoff single for the Pirates\u2019 first hit of the chilly afternoon, and Reynolds drove Thielbar\u2019s next pitch deep to left for his third homer.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh won for the seventh time in nine games since its 1-3 start.<\/p>\n

Chicago went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and left 11 runners on base. Ian Happ<\/a> had two of the team\u2019s six hits.<\/p>\n

Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki<\/a> went 1 for 3 with a fourth-inning single in his first game this season. He had been sidelined by a sprained right knee.<\/p>\n

Imanaga struck out nine and walked one in six innings. The Japanese left-hander threw 68 of 100 pitches for strikes.<\/p>\n

Thielbar (1-1) was lifted after Oneil Cruz<\/a>\u2019s two-out single in the seventh. The 39-year-old lefty pitched 3 2\/3 scoreless innings over his first four appearances this year.<\/p>\n

Mason Montgomery<\/a> (1-0) replaced Mlodzinski with runners on first and second in the sixth. He struck out Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> and walked Carson Kelly<\/a> before fanning pinch-hitter Matt Shaw<\/a> for the final out of the inning.<\/p>\n

The Cubs also left the bases loaded in the fourth when Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros lined to Reynolds in left.<\/p>\n

Isaac Mattson<\/a> and Gregory Soto<\/a> each pitched an inning for the Pirates before Dennis Santana<\/a> handled the ninth for his first save this season.<\/p>\n

Pirates rookie Konnor Griffin went 0 for 3 with a strikeout in his first career road game. The 19-year-old shortstop agreed to a nine-year, $140 million contract on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Braxton Ashcraft<\/a> (1-1, 2.25 ERA) starts for Pittsburgh on Saturday, and fellow right-hander Edward Cabrera<\/a> (1-0, 0.00 ERA) pitches for Chicago.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

Jay Cohen, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer and Carmen Mlodzinski pitched six-hit ball into the sixth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-596096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596096","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=596096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}