{"id":254586,"date":"2026-07-29T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254586\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:19:30","slug":"arizona-diamondbacks-8-pittsburgh-pirates-7-july-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254586\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks 8 Pittsburgh Pirates 7 (July 28, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

James McCann’s 12th-inning single gives Diamondbacks 8-7 win over Pirates after blowing six-run lead<\/p>\n

\"JOHNPITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014<\/p>\n

James McCann singled in the winning run in the 12th inning with his fourth hit of the game and the Arizona Diamondbacks held on for an 8-7 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night despite blowing a six-run lead.<\/p>\n

Brandon Lowe and Bryan Reynolds hit back-to-back home runs for the Pirates to spark a three-run rally against closer Paul Sewald in the ninth to tie the game at 6-all and force extra innings. Lowe’s two-run shot was his team-leading 22nd of the season.<\/p>\n

It was Sewald\u2019s third blown save in 27 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Pirates also had a three-run eighth to make it 6-3 on RBI singles by Ryan O\u2019Hearn, Endy Rodr\u00edguez and Marcell Ozuna.<\/p>\n

Both teams scored runs in the 10th on errors.<\/p>\n

Geraldo Carillo (1-0) got his first major league win as the Diamondbacks won for the 11th time in 17 games. McCann\u2019s winning hit came off Wilbur Dotel (1-3).<\/p>\n

The Diamondbacks\u2019 Brandon Pfaadt pitched seven scoreless innings, left with a 6-0 lead, and was in line to win his career-high sixth consecutive start since returning from Triple-A Reno on June 30. However, the bullpen blew the lead.<\/p>\n

Pfaadt gave up six hits, struck out four and walked one. He was a 13-game winner last year but was sent to the minor leagues on June 4 after struggling.<\/p>\n

Pirates rookie Bubba Chandler struggled to get through four innings. Four of the five runs Chandler allowed were earned, and he surrendered eight hits as he put the Pirates in a five-run hole.<\/p>\n

The Pirates had 14 hits, including two each from Jake Mangum, Lowe, O\u2019Hearn, Nick Gonzales and Ozuna.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (9-3, 2.64 ERA) starts the rubber game of the three-game series Wednesday against RHP Jared Jones (2-1, 3.72).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McCann’s 12th-inning single gives Diamondbacks 8-7 win over Pirates after blowing six-run lead PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[108540,74037,34879,108539,34782,108537,3618,81657,108538,13832,15265,52376,73,75,74,10997,11405,41208],"class_list":["post-254586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-12th-inning","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-fourth-hit","tag-game","tag-innings","tag-james-mccann","tag-june","tag-lead","tag-marcell-ozuna","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-run","tag-ryan-ohearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254586","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=254586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}