{"id":262373,"date":"2026-08-10T03:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262373\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:10:21","slug":"new-york-mets-feast-on-pittsburgh-pirates-pitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262373\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets feast on Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 pitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jared Jones, left, walks off the mound after handing the ball to manager Don Kelly, second from left, during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n

PITTSBURGH — Bo Bichette went 5-for-5 with a three-run double and scored three times, Luis Robert Jr. homered and drove in four, and the New York Mets routed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 11-1, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sean Manaea pitched seven strong innings and struck out 11, most by a New York starter this season. Francisco Alvarez also went deep and Jared Young had three hits for the last-place Mets, who improved to 5-1 on a nine-game trip following a substantial selloff ahead of last Monday’s trade deadline.<\/p>\n

“That was a tough one,” Pirates manager Don Kelly said. “From the beginning, Manaea kept us off balance. We have to find a way to be better there — frustrating loss.”<\/p>\n

Coming off a 9-0 defeat Saturday night, New York turned the tables and outhit Pittsburgh 15-4. Bichette had a bases-loaded double in the fourth that pushed the lead to 8-1. Robert launched a two-run shot in the third, and Alvarez homered leading off the fifth.<\/p>\n

Manaea (4-5) allowed only Jake Mangum’s homer in the third. The big left-hander gave up three hits and walked none.<\/p>\n

Jack Weisenburger, just called up from Triple-A Syracuse, tossed two scoreless innings in his major league debut to finish it.<\/p>\n

Pirates starter Jared Jones (2-4) was tagged for eight runs and six hits in three-plus innings.<\/p>\n

“(I) got behind just about everybody today, and felt like I really couldn’t control any at bats,” Jones said. “Stuff just got away from me, and I couldn’t make an adjustment.” <\/p>\n

Jones walked three and hit two batters with pitches as Pittsburgh lost for the fifth time in six games.<\/p>\n

“It seemed from the beginning, command didn’t seem to be there,” Kelly said of Jones. “Getting through that first inning, keeping it to two (runs), (I) thought (that) was a positive, and then just seemed to unravel there in the fourth inning. Command just wasn’t there today.”<\/p>\n

Rookie outfielder Carson Benge returned to the Mets’ lineup from a sore left wrist and went 2 for 5 with an RBI single and a walk.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game<\/p>\n

Bubba Chandler allowed three hits in six innings, Mangum had three hits and the Pirates beat the Mets 9-0 on Saturday night to end a four-game skid.<\/p>\n

Chandler (5-8) struck out five and walked one on 85 pitches — 58 for strikes. The 23-year-old former top prospect has surrendered seven earned runs in 26\u00aa innings over his past five starts.<\/p>\n

Mangum had two doubles, a single and a stolen base. Nick Gonzales drove in three runs for the Pirates, who hadn’t scored more than four in seven straight games since an 8-7 loss at the Reds on July 31.<\/p>\n

Robert Stock (0-2) lasted three innings for the Mets, being charged for eight runs on nine hits and five walks with four strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Mangum led off the first with a double off the right-field wall and scored from third when Gonzales grounded back to Stock with the bases loaded. Ronny Simon then slipped a two-out double just inside third base and down the line, tacking on two more.<\/p>\n

In the third, Simon reached on a well-placed bunt, stole second and scored on a bloop single to right from Jacob Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh added four runs before recording an out in the fourth. Mangum lined an RBI double to left and scored on a wild pitch with the bases loaded. Stock walked Spencer Horwitz to reload the bases and was pulled after Gonzales lined a two-run double into the right-field corner.<\/p>\n

Mets catcher Luis Torrens pitched the final two innings and was welcomed by Brandon Lowe sending a 42-mph pitch 380 feet to right for his 25th homer.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Pirates begin a three-game series at Miami on Tuesday night as RHP Paul Skenes (9-10, 3.96 ERA) faces RHP Eury Perez (5-9, 3.61).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jared Jones, left, walks off the mound after handing the ball to manager Don…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-262373","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\/262373","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=262373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}