Diamondbacks beat Pirates for series win at PNC Park<\/p>\n
Rodr\u00edguez goes 8 innings, Moreno hits 2-run homer as Diamondbacks blank Pirates 3-0<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014<\/p>\n
Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez pitched eight shutout innings, Gabriel Moreno hit a two-run homer and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 on Wednesday, clinching the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Arizona (57-52) now sits two games up on the Pirates (55-54) for the final NL wild card.<\/p>\n
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Rodr\u00edguez (10-3) struck out two while giving up five hits on 105 pitches before Brandyn Garcia closed out a hitless ninth inning for his second save of the year.<\/p>\n
The loss marked the fifth straight against a left-handed opener for Pittsburgh, while Diamondbacks starters gave up zero earned runs in 20 2\/3 innings pitched this series.<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n Moreno scored the game’s first runs, smashing a slider 407 feet into the lawn past the center-field wall. With the hit, he extended his on-base streak to 26 consecutive games.<\/p>\n Max Kepler drove in the only other score with an RBI single in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n Despite three consecutive three-up, three-down innings to start the game, Jared Jones (2-2) surrendered all three runs and struck out five in six innings for the Pirates. <\/p>\n The Pirates have been shut out in three of their last seven games. They lost 2-0 to the Yankees a week ago and 11-0 to the Cubs on Saturday. <\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Diamondbacks: After an off day, LHP Mitch Bratt (0-1, 6.32 ERA) takes the mound for Game 1 of a weekend series at the Cleveland Guardians on Friday.<\/p>\n Pirates: Yet to announce a starter for Thursday’s opener of a four-game series at the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks beat Pirates for series win at PNC Park Rodr\u00edguez goes 8 innings, Moreno hits 2-run homer as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74037,53363,108636,82570,108634,3618,10086,81657,31568,108635,2092,23785,73,75,74,10997,11405,3170,3522,10254],"class_list":["post-254892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-diamondbacks-starter","tag-eduardo-rodriguez","tag-gabriel-moreno","tag-game","tag-hit","tag-innings","tag-jared-jones","tag-left-handed-opener","tag-more-news","tag-pirate","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-run","tag-series","tag-thursday","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254892","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=254892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}