{"id":277944,"date":"2026-09-03T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277944\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:26:08","slug":"hill-stays-hot-giants-split-first-two-games-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277944\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill stays hot: Giants split first two games in Pittsburgh –"},"content":{"rendered":"

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San Francisco Giants’ Turner Hill singles off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bubba Chandler during the fifth inning, driving in a run during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brandon Lowe scored from third when San Francisco third baseman Oseilvis Basabe short-hopped a throw to first with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Giants 13-12 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Turner Hill batted leadoff and had a career-high four hits for San Francisco, going 4 for 5 with two runs scored and a run-batted-in. Three of his hits came against reigning NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes. Hill improved his slash-line to .342\/.426\/.899.<\/p>\n

Lowe led off the ninth against Carson Seymour (0-1) with his fourth hit of the night, before eventually moving to third on a single by Nick Gonzales and a fielder\u2019s choice by Oneil Cruz.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh backup catcher Rafael Flores Jr. then laced a hard grounder to third that Basabe picked cleanly, only to see his throw to first get away from first baseman Rafael Devers.<\/p>\n

Lowe\u2019s four-hit night included his 29th home run of the season. Cruz had four hits and drove in four runs for Pittsburgh, which recovered later after blowing a six-run lead.<\/p>\n

The Pirates have won five of seven despite allowing the Giants to rally to tie it at 12 thanks to a five-run eighth, the final two runs scoring on Drew Cavanaugh\u2019s double.<\/p>\n

Gonzales had three hits for Pittsburgh to boost his batting average to .310. Spencer Horwitz and Jacob Gonzalez added two hits each for the Pirates.<\/p>\n

Mason Montgomery (6-3) worked around two hits in the ninth to keep the game tied and put Pittsburgh in position to win it.<\/p>\n

The late heroics hardly seemed necessary after the Pirates erupted for nine runs in the third. Bryan Reynolds led off with a single against Logan Webb, and the Pirates spent the next 34 minutes chipping away against Webb and reliever Braxton Roxy behind eight singles, two walks and a hit batter.<\/p>\n

Skenes, who has endured a bit of a slog during his third season in the majors, gave up five runs in 4 2\/3 innings. He failed to lock down his first win since mid-July when he allowed consecutive two-out hits in the fifth and was removed after throwing 95 pitches. The right-hander allowed five runs on eight hits with three walks and four strikeouts as his ERA ticked up to 3.97.<\/p>\n

Cavanaugh finished with three and Christian Koss added two hits for the Giants, who fell to a National League-worst 24-46 on the road.<\/p>\n

NOTE: In the Giants’ 5-4 win over the Pirates on Wednesday, Hill went 1 for 4 and added two RBIs. The Marietta native\u2019s sliding catch in the ninth inning prevented the winning run from scoring and allowed San Francisco to win it in the 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Sports San Francisco Giants’ Turner Hill singles off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bubba Chandler during the fifth inning,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-277944","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\/277944","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=277944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}