Pirates vs. Guardians Game Highlights (8/31/24) | MLB Highlights

I'm really anxious to see how this matchup plays out tonight because Boyd, as we know in his three starts with Cleveland, he has given up just a total of 10 hits. The Pirates team has put up 61 hits in their last five games swing and a miss on a hanging changeup. So a strikeout to start tonight's ball game. Now, Brian reynolds sixth in the National league and hits the two swung out and back to back. And that's something that Pittsburgh has done a lot of swing and miss now it's Nick Gonzalez 260 hitter with five home runs swinging a liner up the middle past the diving attempt of Jimenez. He goes into center for a base, hit a two out single to center for Nick Gonzalez. Now here's Andrew Mccutchen who came off the injured list to be the cleanup man last night and he did that home ring and driving in three straight up in front of the plate called off by Big Christmas and the side is retired. Luis Ortiz will be our starting pitcher for the Pirates. He is making his 11th start, first start and appearance against the Guardians and he's coming off a good one against Cincinnati where he went six innings, four hits did not allow Alb in off the plate. And that's at times been an issue for Ortiz. Here's Andres Jimenez swings and lobs one out to fairly deep right field and De La Cruz gets underneath it to make the catch one out back to first goes, pitch taken for a ball strong throw. And Henry Davis guns out Steven. That's only the third runner. Henry Davis is thrown out all year. That's ripped to right. Cruz is there. Henry Davis helps clean things up with that gun to second. That's the walk given up by Ortiz that will bring up. Will Brennan one out one on no score swung on the tamper by the mound right side of second glove by the shortstop. Kind of wasn't able to tag Noel but he got Brennan on the throw. I think I was trying to get him to stop trying to tag him at first. Then he got him to stop and Then he figured, well, maybe I could go and fire it to first and Then have a shot back at second or maybe he thought he was out of the baseline. So a runner in scoring position. So nothing else Cleveland pushing the pitch count. Luis Ortiz at 36 and the Pirates bullpen now is reeling and they need length from Ortiz and quality length tonight. 3 to 2 pitch swinging Miss struck him out on a changeup. I think, I don't think he's thrown a changeup since May, but they used one right there and Noel to end the second one away. Triolo still at first and back to the top of the order for Isaiah kind of. Now the pitch runner goes, pitch is taken high. Did he get a jump? He went in basically walking Triolo had that big a jump his seventh steal. So now base hit and Boyd could be on the short end and it's hit high in the air to left fairly deep playable for and he'll retire kind of FFA for the second out in the inning. Ryan reynolds struck out his first time up, swung on and missed another swing and a miss with a runner in scoring position stran the runner no score middle of the third bone Naylor leads it off for the Guardians, Brian Roo and Then stephen Kwan 89 and one hitters swing and a miss struck him out and Ortiz struck out the last two Guardians one out in the third swing. A little dribbler to first easy play for Connor joe. Steps on the bank to strike three called 123345 in the Pirates batting order. Gonzalez recently off the injured list swinging a liner to the left field corner. This is fair by a couple of feet and it will die in that corner. Extra bases for Nick Gonzalez. He has a double starting the Pirates. Fourth inning two for two tonight. The Pirates second time in two innings have a runner in scoring position this time though, a leadoff double for Gonzalez. Here's Mccutchen sporting a 12 game hitting streak swinging a looping pop down the right field line. This ball is fair. Gonzalez Tags third. He's going to head home and score great base running for Nick and on that bloop single by andrew Mccutchen. He drives in the run and the lead it one to nothing. A 13 game hitting streak and his 44 RB I of the year one down for jose ramirez swing and a miss struck him out. He made up his mind late on that back door cutter and ramirez strikes out swinging for the second out. Not many pitchers make ramirez look silly that way. Now Josh Naylor and Naylor promptly lines one to left in the diving catch by Brian reynolds and Cleveland goes down in order, Bray Robs Naylor hitting just 187 against lefties on the year came in batting 205 overall swing and a miss strike three changeup had Triolo all tied up in knots. He's down on strikes six for Boyd two down in the inning. Still 1 to 0. Pittsburgh is their number nine hitter. Henry Davis steps in swing and a miss he came back with a another nasty changeup. Seven strikeouts through five innings of work for right now. Luis Ortiz has completely shut down Cleveland. He's walked two struck out five base. Daniel had a good at bat his first time up and ended up striking out down low ball four. So another base runner for the Guardians their third on the night, but they've all been walks as Ortiz still has not allowed a base hit and he swings and taps at first base side off the glove of joe, the first baseman, It trickles into right field. A base hit for Naylor moving up to second is Schieman and the first hit of the game for the Guardians is a deflection off the glove of the first baseman Connor Joe. You 1st and 2nd now and the first hit of the ball game for the Guardians swinging a bouncer on to second base and Gonzalez has it, throws it to first inning over five shutout innings for Luis Ortiz. Matthew Boyd has two quick outs this inning on three pitches, eight strikeouts, eight straight retired by Matthew Boyd for six innings of work. Top of the order, bottom of the sixth Steven Kwan, the banner bouncer up first. Joe comes and gets a friendlier hop tags, the bag one out and he has some sort of cramping or something going on. What's the, what's the issue here pointing to his left front of his foot to when he to first , whatever the way he's bending his ankle. I'm thinking maybe it's his calf cramp. Ortiz is good. To go. He'll stay in and face Andresen. How about that? Is that this time he covered, they made him run again. I tell you what he will be done. Get one more out and caught by Conor Joe of a play by the Pirates first baseman to Rob Ramirez of extra bases and six shutout innings for luis Ortiz Cruz with an 11 game hitting streak. Now on base streak advances to 22 games and Bucks on the pond for Connor Joe and he struck him out that 1st and 2nd 1 down. Brian de La Cruz, the batter zero for two slider got a big strikeout for Sandlin gets the swing and miss so back to back strikeouts and a chance to get out of it. Now, inside ball four, he has walked Triolo, the bases are loaded. Henry Davis is coming up and Stephen is going to go to the bullpen has got to try to get Cleveland out of this mess. Swung on well to the gap deep right center on the run. Sne made the catch great as he got near the track and the Pirates leave them loaded. Jalen Bes faced three hitters, two are on with one out. Now, 1st and 2nd lane, Thomas was introduced as the pinch hitter and coming on the pitch is the right hander Dennis Santana high fly ball to left Reynolds is back nearing the wall and he makes the catch and this is going to be a double play as Naylor was rounding third. Brian reynolds leaps at the wall and turns it into a double play to end the inning. That is a huge play right there. Naylor was already around third and a double play on a deep drive off the bat of Lane Thomas sends us to the eighth. This ought to be a heck of a matchup. Tim Herron, the hard throwing lefty against the electric left handed bat of o'neal Cruz swinging a crack deflected off of Haren to the shortstop and on the first high throw, Cruz beats it out bases loaded and the inning continues when they had him out. If he makes a good throw. Now we got to check and see if they hit him right in the arm. It was, it was hit hard. No question, Tim Herron is done for the night. Oh, boy. And what Cleveland obviously is hoping for is that it's only for tonight, but he took a shot rowdy to will come on and bat as right and Eli Morgan replaces the injured Tim Herron. Bases are loaded two down in the eighth to lines one right. That's down for a base hit. One run is in Gonzalez to score brownie to comes off the Pirates bench and drives in two and the Pirates are leading 3 to 0 in Cleveland. Absolutely huge right there two out RBIs two of them was just his fourth pinch hit on the year but it's a big one coming on to try to save it. Here comes the left hander, Aroldis Chapman. David Bed has had such a horrific month of August Derek Shelton will turn to Chapman swing and a miss struck him out 100 above the zone. Chapman strikes out Jimenez one out in the ninth. Got him one and one upstairs back to back strikeouts for Aroldis Chapman Pirates. One out away from a big w in Cleveland pop up and see if it's playable Toles over and Gonzalez is there? Raise the Jolly Roger in Cleveland, Ohio Pirates. Blank Cleveland tonight. Three to nothing.