{"id":207042,"date":"2026-05-31T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207042\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:59:12","slug":"how-to-watch-pittsburgh-pirates-vs-minnesota-twins-may-31-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207042\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Minnesota Twins, May 31, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022\u00a0Who: Pirates (31-28) vs. Twins (27-32)
\u2022\u00a0What: MLB regular season, Game 60
\u2022 When: 1:35 p.m.
\u2022\u00a0Where: PNC Park
\u2022 Pitchers: RHP Braxton Ashcraft (4-2, 2.75 ERA) vs. RHP\u00a0Zebby Matthews (1-2, 2.37)
\u2022\u00a0TV:\u00a0SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/a>
\u2022 Radio: Pirates Radio Network<\/a>
\u2022 Satellite: SiriusXM 176\/861<\/a>
\u2022\u00a0<\/a>Boxscore:\u00a0DKPS<\/a>
<\/a>\u2022 Media notes: Pirates<\/a> | Twins<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u25ba FOLLOW ALONG<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bidois, just as Sanders did in the seventh, has an easy 1-2-3 inning with two ground outs and a strikeout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pirates go down in order to finish the seventh. Brandan Bidois\u00a0is coming into the game to pitch the eighth inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Paid attendance: 19,358<\/p>\n

\u2022 O’Hearn is stranded at first after a two-out single to left field. Cam Sanders\u00a0will take over in the seventh inning. Ashcraft’s final line 6 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 0 BB, and 11 K.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ashcraft gets Bell fishing. Crowd stands and roars as he comes off, aware he’ll be done. Yet another strong start for the young man. Six innings, two runs, five hits, ELEVEN strikeouts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 HOME RUN. Two-run shot for Lee over the Clemente Wall. First real blemish on Ashcraft today. Pirates, 9-2<\/p>\n

\u2022 Horwitz flies out. Five-run fifth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RUNS. Two-run single into left for Davis. Pirates, 9-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Review shows catcher’s interference on Triolo. Bases loaded again.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RUN. Mangum sac fly to center. Pirates, 7-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gonzales walks. Bases loaded, one out, for Cruz.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The righty, Mike Paredes, is on for Minnesota, making his big-league debut.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Swinging K. And that’ll be it for Matthews. Shelton coming to get him.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wild pitch. Both runners advance. Still no outs for O’Hearn.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ouch! Martin goes HARD to try to catch a foul pop by O’Hearn in right, flips over the short fence out there … but he seems OK and is staying in for now.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Reynolds walks.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RUN. Lowe rips an RBI single to the base of the Clemente Wall. Pirates, 5-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Horwitz doubles to the base of the fence in right-center to open the Pittsburgh fifth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ashcraft 1-2-3 through the Minnesota order again. That’s five eggs. Man, this kid’s good.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cherington’s about to speak with us reporter types at the back of the press box at the end of this inning. All Mlodzinski.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ashcraft strikes out Larnach looking for his seventh through four innings. He’s thrown 38 of 51 pitches for strikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bell with a two-out line single to right field. He can still rake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cruz strikes out to end the inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 HOME RUN: Gonzales finally hits his first home run, on a 1-1 pitch, a two-run shot to center field, knocking in Reynolds. And he destroyed it, into the bullpen. Amusingly raises his head as he approaches second. He’s been complaining about this for weeks. Pirates, 4-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Martin 5-3. Triolo owes Ashcraft a pint.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gray swinging, Jackson looking, two down. Keashcall still at second.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ashcraft had Keaschall hung up between first and second, but Triolo fails to catch the throw from Horwitz. Absurdly, Horwitz gets dinged with the error.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Horwitz flies out to left field to leave Mangum and Triolo in scoring position.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RUN:\u00a0Triolo lines a single to right to bring in Cruz from third base. Pirates, 2-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 HOME RUN: O’Hearn, in his first at-bat since returning, hits a home run over the Clemente Wall, his eighth. Pirates, 1-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Arcia bounces into the 6-4-3 to end the second inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pirates go down in order in the first. Lowe and Reynolds struck out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ashcraft with his usual cruising start in the first inning, striking out two.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 First pitch: Pirates vs. Twins, Ashcraft to Martin, 1:37 p.m., 68 degrees, sunny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Don Kelly’s lineup:<\/p>\n

1. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
2. Brandon Lowe, 2B
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Ryan O’Hearn, DH
5. Nick Gonzales, 3B
6. Oneil Cruz, CF
7. Jake Mangum, LF
8. Jared Triolo, SS
9. Henry Davis, C<\/p>\n

\u2022 Derek Shelton’s lineup:<\/p>\n

1. Austin Martin, RF
2. Brooks Lee, 3B
3. Kody Clemens, CF
4. Josh Bell, DH
5. Trevor Larnach, LF
6. Orlando Arcia, 1B
7. Luke Keaschall, 2B
8. Tristan Gray, 3B
9. Alex Jackson, C<\/p>\n

\u2022 No manager access before day games. Clubhouse open to media at 10 a.m. I’ve got you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0Who: Pirates (31-28) vs. Twins (27-32)\u2022\u00a0What: MLB regular season, Game 60\u2022 When: 1:35 p.m.\u2022\u00a0Where: PNC Park\u2022 Pitchers: RHP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71622,24481,16736,1423,67985,18203,73,75,74,49021],"class_list":["post-207042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-braxton-ashcraft","tag-feed-article","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-on-location","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-site-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207042","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=207042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}