Don Kelly, manager of Pittsburgh Pirates, did not get externally nervous when his team abolished the 26-game streak of not scoring more than four runs in a game.
“People were showing quickly and putting them in work, continued to rely on the process,” he said, “and I think we are watching the results now.”
Pittsburgh wrapped 12 hits on Saturday night in a 5–0 road win over San Diego Padress, giving the Pirates a chance to win the series in the last game of Sunday.
While Bailey Falter threw two-hit shutouts in 6 1/3 innings, Pirates Lineup in the Pirates lineup, the top three Hitter-Wonse, Andrew McCchen and Bryan Reynolds-seven hits and three combined for RBI.
McAcchen hit a single homer, and Rrenolds knocked in two runs, making him 14 in his last 13 matches.
“We’re looking for ways to score runs,” Kelly said. “We did it again with a two-out hit. We continue to pass the baton.”
The result enabled Pittsburgh to snap a 10-game losing streak in San Diego, dating last August.
Left-arm Andrew Honey (3-4, 3.41 ERA) hopes to lead the pirates to win a series. He last worked on Monday night, after losing 5–0 in Arizona, scored eight hits and five runs in five innings with three runs and two strikes.
Honey is 3–1 with 1.99 ERA in six career games against Padress, although the loss was on 4 May. He was tagged for eight hits and four runs in 3 2/3 innings of 4–0 necklace, with Xander Bogaerts two runs in two runs and singing in a third.
This continued a career-lumbar tendency for both players. Bogurts are two homers and seven -for -18 with RBI, when Honey faces, a matchup that can give a boost to a boost, which he needs to pump some moral numbers for his season. After going for 0 -for -3 on Saturday night, the bogurts’s batting average fell to .241.
Then, he was not alone. San Diego has made just five hits in the first two matches of the series, although it won 3–2 on Friday night.
For Saturday’s game, “tonight was clearly not the night that was our representative,” said Padress Manager Mike Shield. “But preparation and work before the game is really good. We (still) have a chance to win our third series in a row, which is good.”
Right-arm Randy Waskes (3-4, 3.58 ERA) will take the mound on Sunday for San Diego, fresh from its longest outing of the year. He moved to his team’s 4-3 innings in 4-3 innings on Monday, with a 11-inning win over Miami, with six hits and three runs with a walk and five strikes.
Waskease faced Pirates in Pittsburgh on 3 May in Pittsburgh, scrambled through five innings of his team’s 2–1 win. He gave six hits and five walks, but damaged three runs, three fanning three. Waskease has no record in three matches against the Pirates, which pitching up to 3.00 ERA.
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