{"id":301421,"date":"2026-07-21T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301421\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:30:12","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-vs-new-york-yankees-braxton-ashcraft-vs-ryan-weathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301421\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Yankees: Braxton Ashcraft vs. Ryan Weathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pittsburgh Pirates are continuing their road trip as they travel to the Big Apple to take on the New York Yankees for the first matchup of a three-game set in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Braxton Ashcroft is making his first start of the second half for the Pirates. He finished the first half off in style, winning each of his last five starts and picking up four wins in that stretch. He did not factor in the decision. During his last start against the Milwaukee Brewers on July 11, he pitched five innings, gave up five hits and five earned runs, and struck out six. The Pirates are 13-6 in games where Ashcroft pitches this season, which is a good sign for today\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Yankees are countering with Ryan Weathers, who struggled a bit in the first half of the season. Weathers went 3-7 with a 4.15 ERA. Weathers was a no-decision in his last start of the first half against the Washington Nationals on July 11. Weathers pitched 5.1 innings, giving up six hits and one earned run, as the Yanks beat the Gnats 5-3, thanks to three runs scored in the top of the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Location: Yankee Stadium, The Bronx, NY<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Broadcast: KDKA AM\/FM, Sportsnet Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pitching Matchup: Braxton Ashcraft (9-3, 3.49 ERA) vs. Ryan Weathers (3-7, 4.15 ERA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">BD community, this is your gameday thread for today. Chime off in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates are continuing their road trip as they travel to the Big Apple to take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,114340],"class_list":["post-301421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pirates-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}