{"id":249168,"date":"2026-07-22T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249168\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:33:06","slug":"new-york-yankees-and-pittsburgh-pirates-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249168\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (52-49, third in the NL Central) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (56-44, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Wednesday, 1:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Mitch Keller<\/a> (6-7, 5.14 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 77 strikeouts); Yankees: Gerrit Cole<\/a> (3-5, 3.93 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 55 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -175, Pirates +143; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees play the Pittsburgh Pirates, leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

New York is 56-44 overall and 25-22 at home. Yankees hitters have a collective .423 slugging percentage to rank fourth in the majors.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has a 25-25 record in road games and a 52-49 record overall. The Pirates rank ninth in MLB<\/a> play with 130 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> leads the Yankees with a .281 batting average, and has 17 doubles, three triples, 29 home runs, 49 walks and 68 RBIs. Cody Bellinger<\/a> is 12 for 38 with two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brandon Lowe<\/a> leads the Pirates with 21 home runs while slugging .478. Esmerlyn Valdez<\/a> is 11 for 37 with seven home runs and 17 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 6-4, .267 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Pirates: 6-4, .271 batting average, 4.49 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Aaron Judge: 60-Day IL (rib), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Max Fried<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Pirates: Oneil Cruz: 60-Day IL (hand), Endy Rodriguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (lower body), Spencer Horwitz<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Evan Sisk: 15-Day IL (elbow), Konnor Griffin: 60-Day IL (finger), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (illness)<\/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":"Pittsburgh Pirates (52-49, third in the NL Central) vs. New York Yankees (56-44, second in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51798,34879,70369,82627,106607,18645,34782,14708,56878,79090,79161,11199,63599,17150,4559,73,75,74,10997,37449],"class_list":["post-249168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ben-rice","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-chris-devenski","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-event_preview","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-fried","tag-mitch-keller","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-spencer-horwitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249168","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=249168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249168\/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=249168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}