Newman wanted a little more than a single, so he hit a drive to left center that dropped in for a RBI double and tied the game at 4-4. Tucupita Marcano was brought in as a pinch-hitter for Jason Delay and moved Madris over to 2B on a sacrifice bunt. On this night though, the Pirates were ready for some Friday Night Fireworks in the bottom of the 9th.įresh off collecting his first hit since August 7th, Madris decided he’d like to have another and hit a leadoff single. Crowe came back out for the 9th inning and pitched a scoreless inning after working around a Rodolfo Castro error. With the Reds taking a 4-3 lead, the Pirates offense couldn’t get anything going in the bottom of the 8th. but the first hitter managed a RBI single before Crowe struck out the next batter to end the inning. after the fourth hitter he faced singled to put runners on 1st and 2nd with two outs as the second batter of the inning had reached due to an Oneil Cruz throwing error. With the score tied three-all, Duane Underwood Jr. Gamel didn’t wait long hitting the first pitch he saw to right field scoring Madris and tying the game. One batter later Bryan Reynolds would finish Ashcraft’s evening with a single and the Reds decided to bring in reliever Alexis Diaz to face Gamel. With one out Kevin Newman lifted a deep flyball to center field that would score Allen. Greg Allen and Bligh Madris both singled to start off the bottom of the 7th to put runners on 1st and 3rd. Then with two outs and Rodolfo Castro up to bat, Ashcraft spiked a breaking ball that got away and allowed Newman to scamper home for the Pirates first run and cut the score to 3-1.īryse Wilson pitched a scoreless 7th to complete his evening before the Pirates offense went back to work in the bottom half. Ben Gamel singled with one out to put runners on first and third. Kevin Newman who himself is on a bit of a hot stretch started the sixth inning off with a single. In the sixth inning the Pirates would find a way to breakthrough. The Cincinnati Reds scored all their runs on homeruns with Nick Senzel hitting a two-run homerun in the second inning and then TJ Friedl with a solo-shot in the fifth.įor majority of the game Reds’ starter Graham Ashcraft was finding very little pushback from the Pirates offense giving up only three singles through five innings. With Wilson relying heavily on pitching to contact, he’s also dealt with handing out the longball often. On this night Bryse Wilson completed seven innings for the first time in his career. The issue is that he lives and dies by contact having also only struck out 28 batters in those same innings. Over his last 49.2 IP including Friday night’s game he’s given up only six free passes. One of Wilson’s bugaboo’s over his career has been a high walk rate. Bryse Wilson hasn’t been dominant but he’s been effective.
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