{"id":256898,"date":"2026-08-01T03:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256898\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T03:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:17:18","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-blow-another-game-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256898\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates blow another game late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/pennsylvania-sports\/\" class=\"article_cat_label\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/B3-Pirates-1-450x300.webp\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<br \/>\nThe Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Ryan O&#8217;Hearn (29) is helped off the field after an injury during the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; Sal Stewart hit a two-run homer, had four RBIs and scored the winning run as the Cincinnati Reds rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-7, on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart&#8217;s two-run single off Wilber Dotel (1-4) in the eighth tied the score 7-7. Stewart scored the go-ahead run from third on Brandon Lowe&#8217;s fielding error.<\/p>\n<p>Emilio Pag\u00e1n (4-1) struck out one in one inning for Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates trailed 5-4 with two outs in the eighth, but three straight RBI singles by Henry Davis, Jake Mangum and Lowe put them ahead 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Reds right-hander Hunter Greene, who&#8217;s been mentioned in trade speculation, made his fifth start since coming off the injured list and allowed four earned runs on seven hits with two walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gonzales&#8217; first-inning single with the bases loaded drove in two runs to put Pittsburgh ahead 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes was 5-0 with a 1.38 ERA in seven career starts against Cincinnati, but he struggled on Friday. Skenes allowed five earned runs on seven hits with a season-high four walks and seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>He needed 36 pitches to get through the first inning. Tyler Stephenson doubled home JJ Bleday with the Reds&#8217; first run. Stephenson scored the tying run on Nathaniel Lowe&#8217;s single.<\/p>\n<p>Mangum&#8217;s third home run of the season and first since July 9 put the Pirates ahead 3-2 in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Bleday tied the score 3-3 with his 19th home run on Skenes&#8217; first offering with one out in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart&#8217;s home run in the fourth inning put the Reds ahead 5-3. It was his 23rd of the season, tying him with Spencer Steer for third-most for a Reds rookie, one behind Joey Votto who hit 24 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly returns<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates recalled right-handed pitcher Antwone Kelly from Triple-A Indianapolis and optioned left-handed pitcher Hunter Barco to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly pitched three scoreless innings on Friday night, giving up just two hits while walking two and striking out three. <\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft (10-4, 4.05 ERA) will oppose Reds LHP Andrew Abbott (5-6, 3.85) on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Sports The Associated Press The Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Ryan O&#8217;Hearn (29) is helped off the field after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-256898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256898","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=256898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}