{"id":258000,"date":"2026-08-02T23:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:58:21","slug":"reds-rout-pirates-one-day-before-mlb-trade-deadline-as-pittsburgh-fights-to-stay-afloat-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258000\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds rout Pirates one day before MLB trade deadline as Pittsburgh fights to stay afloat \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785715101_587_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-uuid=\"167c8966-c93f-52ed-9441-021623d92cfb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Mitch Keller pitches during the third inning of Sunday\u2019s baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati. Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">CINCINNATI \u2014 Chase Burns won his 12th straight decision, and Sal Stewart hit his 24th home run as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-2 Sunday to take three of four in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Stewart tied Joey Votto for second-most homers by a Reds rookie. Votto hit 24 in 2008. Frank Robinson holds the franchise&#8217;s rookie mark with 38 homers in 1956.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Burns (13-1) is the first Reds pitcher to win 12 straight decisions since Brooks Lawrence won 13 straight in 1956.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Burns allowed one run on two hits with two walks and nine strikeouts in six innings and lowered his ERA to 2.35. It was Burns&#8217; 17th start allowing two runs or fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The game was delayed 25 minutes in the fourth while the grounds crew applied drying compound on the infield and batter&#8217;s box. Despite steady rainfall, the tarp was never brought out. Pirates manager Don Kelly was ejected after voicing his displeasure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Pirates starter Mitch Keller (6-8) allowed three runs on four straight hits in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Stewart&#8217;s homer into the second deck of the bleachers in left field put the Reds ahead 1-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">JJ Bleday followed with a single and scored on a double by Tyler Stephenson, who then came home on Nathaniel Lowe&#8217;s single to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Former Pirate Ke&#8217;Bryan Hayes hit a homer to make the score 4-0 in the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Elly De La Cruz&#8217;s third-inning single off Noah Murdock drove in two runs to make the score 7-0. Keller allowed seven earned runs and walked four in two innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Consecutive RBI doubles by Lowe and Dane Myers off Ron Marinaccio made the score 9-1 in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Right-hander Camilo Doval, acquired on Saturday from the Yankees, made his Pirates debut in the eighth inning and allowed an opposite-field home run by Stephenson.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Pirates: RHP Bubba Chandler (3-8, 4.56 ERA) is scheduled to start Monday at Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Mitch Keller pitches during the third inning of Sunday\u2019s baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3035,3027,3022,3042,3048,3051,1610,3030,3028,31,3029,3034,3025,3047,3041,3024,3045,3033,3023,3036,182,3049,3039,139,3026,28,3040,73,75,74,39,3031,3044,3043,3032,3050,3038,3037,3046],"class_list":["post-258000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258000","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=258000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}