{"id":162869,"date":"2026-04-11T00:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162869\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:39:17","slug":"bryan-reynolds-homers-as-the-pittsburgh-pirates-blank-the-chicago-cubs-2-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162869\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Reynolds homers as the Pittsburgh Pirates blank the Chicago Cubs 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Pittsburgh was shut down by Shota Imanaga before breaking through against Caleb Thielbar in the seventh. Ryan O’Hearn hit a leadoff single for the Pirates’ first hit of the chilly afternoon, and Reynolds drove Thielbar’s 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 had two of the team’s six hits.<\/p>\n

Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki 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’s 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

\"Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Pirates starter Carmen Mlodzinski delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, April 10, 2026. Credit: AP\/Paul Beaty<\/p>\n

Mason Montgomery (1-0) replaced Mlodzinski with runners on first and second in the sixth. He struck out Pete Crow-Armstrong and walked Carson Kelly before fanning pinch-hitter Matt Shaw 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 and Gregory Soto each pitched an inning for the Pirates before Dennis Santana 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

\"Chicago<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs starter Shota Imanaga delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Chicago, Friday, April 10, 2026. Credit: AP\/Paul Beaty<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Braxton Ashcraft (1-1, 2.25 ERA) starts for Pittsburgh on Saturday, and fellow right-hander Edward Cabrera (1-0, 0.00 ERA) pitches for Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer and Carmen Mlodzinski pitched six-hit ball into the sixth inning,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29828,1423,73,75,74,10997,5342],"class_list":{"0":"post-162869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}