{"id":280716,"date":"2026-09-07T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280716\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:52:34","slug":"los-angeles-angels-at-pittsburgh-pirates-yusei-kikuchi-vs-braxton-ashcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280716\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels at. Pittsburgh Pirates: Yusei Kikuchi vs. Braxton Ashcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Location: PNC Park &#8211; Pittsburgh, PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Broadcast: 93.7 The Fan (KDKA-FM), SportsNet Pittsburgh \/ MLB.TV<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pitching Matchup: Yusei Kikuchi (0-5, 5.65 ERA) vs. Braxton Ashcraft (14-5, 3.59 ERA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Konnor Griffin\u2019s effect was immediately felt in his return on Friday. Griffin scored from first on a double down the right field line by Jake Mangum. It was a play only a handful of players in baseball could make, and manager Don Kelly said Griffin may be the only one with the speed to score on the play. It\u2019s all the offense Pittsburgh needed in the 1-0 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pirates (70-72) have won seven of their last 10 games and are looking to win the sixth of their last seven series, attempting to crawl back in the wild card race. Braxton Ashcraft has pitched at least five innings over his last seven starts and has found a second half groove following a very difficult July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ashcraft earned a 2.13 ERA in six starts this August with 29 strikeouts compared to five walks over 38 innings. He has been the Pirates\u2019 most consistent starter and ranks tied for fifth in baseball in wins (14). Will his success continue against Los Angeles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location: PNC Park &#8211; Pittsburgh, PA Broadcast: 93.7 The Fan (KDKA-FM), SportsNet Pittsburgh \/ MLB.TV Pitching Matchup: Yusei&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[117384,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-280716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pirates-game-information","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280716","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=280716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}