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Pirates 6, Twins 2: Split so far
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It was a good Michael Pineda start for a minute a three-run second was exacerbated by bloop doubles and errors a like but solid contact and back-to-back homers in the middle innings sent the Pittsburgh Pirates en route to a series-evening victory, 6-2 over the Twins on Saturday afternoon.
It was the first time all season Pineda failed to complete five full innings. Despite five strikeouts and just one walk, the Pirates plated five runs (four earned) over the course of Big Mike’s 90 pitches. It started on this weird joint error in the second, after Jorge Polanco’s errant throw and Willians Astudillo’s inability to hang onto the baseball opened the scoring.
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Jacob deGrom continued making history Friday night, when the New York Mets ace struck out a career-high 15 in a two-hit shutout and also doubled home the gameâs first run in a 6-0 win over the visiting Washington Nationals.
The Mets snapped a three-game losing streak. The Nationals had a two-game winning streak halted.
deGrom (2-1) allowed a second-inning single to Starlin Castro and a third-inning double to Andrew Stevenson before retiring the final 19 batters. He lowered his ERA to 0.31 in authoring his fourth career complete game and second shutout.
deGromâs 15 strikeouts increase his season total to 50 â the most ever by a pitcher in his first four starts of the season. The two-time National League Cy Young Award winner became the third pitcher in history to whiff at least 14 batters in three straight starts, joining Pedro Martinez (1999) and Gerrit Cole (2019).
Baltimore has lost seven of its eight home games.
Irvin (2-2) had won back-to-back starts just once before, his first two career starts for Philadelphia in May 2019. Coming off six shutout innings against Detroit on Saturday, he stymied the Orioles for five innings. But Baltimore stitched together four singles in the sixth, capped by Pedro Severino’s RBI single, to end Irvin’s night.
Jake Diekman worked the ninth to earn his second save in as many tries.
Jorge López (1-3) was the loser.
PADRES 6, DODGERS 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fernando Tatís Jr. hit two homers at Dodger Stadium on the 22nd anniversary of his father hitting two grand slams in one inning at the same park, and San Diego earned its third straight victory over Los Angeles.
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MINNEAPOLIS While all of the Twinsâ big-name power hitters have been quiet thus far in this series against the Pirates, Jake Caveâs bat has finally started to show signs of life.
Cave drove in one of Minnesotaâs two runs on Friday with a solo homer and cracked two more doubles to the opposite field on Saturday against Pittsburgh. With an outfield crunch looming in the near future, this recent production is coming at a good time for Cave, who scored one run and drove in the other while the remainder of the offense combined for only one other hit in the Twinsâ 6-2 loss to the Pirates at Target Field.