{"id":851845,"date":"2026-09-18T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851845\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:10:15","slug":"bucs-avoid-sweep-by-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851845\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs avoid sweep by Brewers &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/\" class=\"article_cat_label\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    NL baseball<\/p>\n<p>                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirates-3-214x300.webp\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On deck<\/p>\n<p>Tonight: Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers: Royals RHP Randy Dobnak (3-4) vs. Pirates RHP Paul Skenes (10-11)<\/p>\n<p>TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; Konnor Griffin hit a two-run single to key a five-run second inning and Henry Davis tacked on a two-run homer to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers 7-4 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee, a major league-best 95-58, leads the Los Angeles Dodgers by two games for the top NL seed and holds the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh (76-77) is closing in on missing the playoffs for the 11th consecutive season. Since 1992, the Pirates&#8217; only postseason appearances were from 2013-15.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates did win the season series with Milwaukee, 7-6. Last year, the Pirates went 3-10 against the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin&#8217;s opposite-field liner to left to put the Pirates ahead 2-1. Oneil Cruz followed with a two-run single and Brandon Lowe was hit by a Kyle Harrison pitch with the bases loaded.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Naylor hit into a run-scoring forceout in the sixth and had a solo homer in the eighth off Luke Weaver that followed Sal Frelick&#8217;s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Davis homered in the eighth against Andy Ashby.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Montgomery got four outs for his 14th save in 16 chances, extending his scoreless innings streak to 21\u00aa innings.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison (10-5) allowed five runs &#8212; four earned &#8212; in 1\u00aa innings and in his last four outings has given up 24 runs over nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>Khristian Curtis (2-0) gave up one run in 3\u2022 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell was not in the lineup for a second straight game because of stiffness in his neck. He doubled as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Brewers: RHP Dustin May (7-9. 4.49 ERA) starts tonight in a series at Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates: RHP Paul Skenes (10-11, 3.78), 1-3 in his last nine starts, faces visiting Kansas City and RHP Randy Dobnak (3-4, 2.73 ERA) on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Sports NL baseball On deck Tonight: Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. Pitchers: Royals RHP Randy Dobnak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-851845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}