{"id":187224,"date":"2026-05-08T14:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187224\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:55:15","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-win-rubber-match-in-arizona-2-bombs-keller-finds-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187224\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates win rubber match in Arizona; 2 bombs, Keller finds it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/\">PGHBaseballNOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Mitch Keller grinded through the early portion of his outing but delivered another quality start and the Pittsburgh Pirates hit two home runs in a 4-2 rubber match win against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scoring Plays<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Top 1st, 1-0 PIT:\u00a0For the second time in as many games, Brandon Lowe hit a first-inning home run to give the Pirates (21-17) an early lead. His solo shot to right field off Zac Gallen (1-3) traveled 436 feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Bottom 1st, 1-1:\u00a0Adrian Del Castillo singled to right off Mitch Keller (4-1) to bring home the tying run from second base with two outs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pirates-win-rubber-match-in-arizona-2-bombs-keller-finds-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pirates-win-rubber-match-in-arizona-2-bombs-keller-finds-it\/\">Click here to read more on PGHBaseballNOW.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article originally appeared on PGHBaseballNOW. Mitch Keller grinded through the early portion of his outing but delivered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,82571,1423,31296,23789,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-187224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baseball","tag-chase-field","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-national-league","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187224","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=187224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}