{"id":207198,"date":"2026-06-01T01:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:37:41","slug":"ashcraft-strikes-out-11-and-pirates-get-hrs-from-ohearn-and-gonzales-to-sweep-skidding-twins-9-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207198\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashcraft strikes out 11 and Pirates get HRs from O&#8217;Hearn and Gonzales to sweep skidding Twins, 9-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braxton Ashcraft struck out 11 in six innings, Ryan O&#8217;Hearn and Nick Gonzales homered, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the skidding Minnesota Twins 9-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Ashcraft (5-2) allowed two runs and five hits with no walks, sending the Twins to their fifth straight defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks Lee had a two-run homer in the sixth and a solo shot in the ninth for Minnesota. <\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hearn returned from the injured list and hit a leadoff homer in the second, his first time up. Jared Triolo singled in Oneil Cruz to make it 2-0. <\/p>\n<p>Gonzales&#8217; two-run homer in the third extended the margin to 4-0. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Paredes replaced Minnesota starter Zebby Matthews (1-3) with one out and runners on second and third in the fifth. Gonzales and Cruz drew back-to-back walks, the latter of which scored Brandon Lowe, and Henry Davis hit a two-run single that capped the Pirates&#8217; five-run inning and made it 9-0. <\/p>\n<p>Matthews gave up seven runs and struck out seven in 4 1\/3 innings. <\/p>\n<p>Josh Bell had two hits for Minnesota. <\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Twins RHP Joe Ryan (3-3, 2.94 ERA) is scheduled to pitch Monday in the opener of a series against the Chicago White Sox, who hadn&#8217;t announced a scheduled starter. <\/p>\n<p>Pirates RHP Bubba Chandler (1-6, 4.85 ERA) takes the mound Tuesday against Astros RHP Mike Burrows (3-6, 5.40) to open a three-game set in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braxton Ashcraft struck out 11 in six innings, Ryan O&#8217;Hearn and Nick Gonzales homered, and the Pittsburgh Pirates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11199,16736,73,75,74,10997,726],"class_list":["post-207198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207198","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=207198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}