Pittsburgh Pirates at Colorado Rockies

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Pittsburgh Pirates

38-39, 18-20 Away

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Colorado Rockies

30-47, 16-20 Home

McCarthy hits leadoff inside-the-park homer off Skenes in Rockies' 2-1 win over Pirates

Jake McCarthy gets Rockies rolling with inside-the-park HR

Skenes (6-7) took a no-hitter into the seventh inning against Colorado on May 12, and hasn't won since that outing.

Tomoyuki Sugano (8-4) went six innings, and Jaden Hill picked up his second save.

Pittsburgh, as it did Friday night, had the tying run on third with less that two outs in the ninth. Hill came on and hit Nick Gonzalez to load the bases before striking out Tyler Callihan. Jake Mangum then hit a grounder to third baseman Kyle Karros, and the game ended when umpires determined Karros was interfered with by Billy Cook.

The game started with matching leadoff home runs. Spencer Horowitz blasted a 434-footer into the second deck in right field to start the night, his fifth career leadoff homer, and McCarthy answered with more flare.

McCarthy drove a liner to center field that got by the diving Mangum and rolled to the wall. Callihan had trouble picking it up, allowing McCarthy to race around the bases and beat the relay throw home.

It was the franchise's second inside-the-park homer to lead off the first inning – the last by Eric Young Jr. on Aug. 8, 2012 — and the 20th inside-the-park home run in team history and first since Ian Desmond’s on June 14, 2019.

McCarthy’s hustle double in the third led to Colorado’s second run.

Up next Pirates RHP Jared Jones (1-1, 6.23) was set to face RHP Michael Lorenzen (2-8, 7.13) on Sunday in the series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Mangum grounded into fielder's choice to third, Gonzales to second, Cook out at third on runner's inteference.
	9th Inning	Callihan struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Gonzales hit by pitch, Cook to second.
	9th Inning	Hill relieved Bernardino
	9th Inning	O'Hearn struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Cook ran for Reynolds

Statistics

PIT		COL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	2
9	Ground Balls	5
10	Strikeouts	10
1	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	5
1	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	27
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
17	Runners Left On Base	13
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	2
13	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	1
139	Pitches	136
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	10
34	Plate Appearances	32
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
2.4	Runs Created	2.7
.188	Batting Average	.185
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.344	Slugging Percentage	.370
.219	Secondary Average	.259
.235	On Base Percentage	.313
.579	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.683
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
2.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.0
18.0	Batter Rating	20.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	27.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.25
.156	Isolated Power	.185
0.10	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.30
.029	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.094
.031	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.074
2.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
69.8	MLB Rating	71.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0