{"id":226664,"date":"2026-06-24T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226664\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:13:09","slug":"seattle-mariners-and-pittsburgh-pirates-play-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226664\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners and Pittsburgh Pirates play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Mariners<\/a> (41-39, first in the AL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (39-40, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: Bryan Woo<\/a> (6-5, 3.94 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 88 strikeouts); Pirates: Braxton Ashcraft (6-3, 3.18 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 97 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -117, Mariners -104; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Mariners lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has a 20-20 record at home and a 39-40 record overall. The Pirates rank sixth in the NL with 94 total home runs, averaging 1.2 per game.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 41-39 record overall and a 19-20 record on the road. The Mariners have a 26-6 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The teams play Wednesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has 11 home runs, 50 walks and 51 RBIs while hitting .287 for the Pirates. Jake Mangum<\/a> is 12 for 39 with three doubles and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Julio Rodriguez<\/a> leads the Mariners with 14 home runs while slugging .425. Dominic Canzone<\/a> is 9 for 30 with a triple, four home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, .263 batting average, 3.83 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Mariners: 5-5, .194 batting average, 3.58 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Konnor Griffin: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Jared Jones: day-to-day (arm), Oneil Cruz: 10-Day IL (hand), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (illness), Wilber Dotel: 15-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n

Mariners: Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Will Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (thumb), Matt Brash<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Cooper Criswell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners (41-39, first in the AL West) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (39-40, fourth in the NL Central) Pittsburgh;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[98361,55049,98360,98365,82627,98363,98366,56878,34929,98367,11199,98362,73,75,74,10997,23786,98364],"class_list":["post-226664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-bryan-woo","tag-carlos-vargas","tag-chris-devenski","tag-cooper-criswell","tag-dominic-canzone","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-mangum","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-brash","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-will-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226664","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=226664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}