Braves vs. Pirates Game Highlights (5/11/25) | MLB Highlights

Jared Triolo was honored before today's game for winning his very first Gold Glove for National League Utility Men, splitting time between first, second, and third base, as well as shortstop, and even a quick appearance in right field last season. He's just the 21st Pirate to win a Gold Glove. Pirates have an opportunity to take a series win from the Braves with a victory here this afternoon. And so today it will be the right-hander, Carmen Majinski, going for the Pirates. The 26-year-old has not faced the lineup deeply in the games. He has not gone to that third time in the order in recent times, but when he has pitched that first time through, he's been very good so far this season. Great to see all the pink. Even home plate umpire Tony Randazzo, he's got the pink mask on back there. Swinging a fly ball to center field. Alexander Canario is there today, and he'll make the catch. One out. Austin Riley, righty batter, 284 hitter with eight home runs. Here's a 1-1. Swing and a pop-up. Right side. Gorski, the first baseman in the infield dirt, will make the catch two-handed for the second out. Here's Matt Olsen. Two and two on Olsen with two outs, nobody on. The pitch is swung on and hit into the air to right where Reynolds resides, and he'll make the catch to end the inning. One, two, three, first for Carmen Majinski, and now the Pirates come to bat for the Braves today. It is the reigning Cy Young Award winner, Chris Sale. If you were worried about Chris Sale at the beginning of the year, how dare you? Look how good he has been here lately now, over his last four with the sub-two ERA. Right field off the bat of Hayes. Eli White out there today to take it. The swing and missed up has been there 20 strikeouts over his last two games. Looking for his first strikeout of the game on the 1-2 pitch on the way to Reynolds. He'll get it. Swung on and missed. Had a slider that time. So Reynolds strikes out two down. McCutchen at .250 with three home runs. And the pitch. Swing and a ball hit the other way, and falling fast, it's down for a base hit. White plays it on a hop. First career hit for McCutchen against Chris Sale. Here's Joey Bart who hit his way on every time he came up yesterday. Four for four, four singles, got an RBI. Bart lines one toward left, and it gets down, and fortunate for Ferdugo, he got the glove up and was able to keep it in front of him, and Joey Bart on quite a roll here. That's five in a row. That'll put him at first and second for Matt Gorski. And the 1-2. That time he got him. Wiped him out with a slider as he went lunging for it. And Sale finishes off the inning with a strikeout. No runs, two hits, no errors, and two men left. Drake Baldwin climbing in. He gets the nod today behind the plate. In play to center, charging Canario, and he got fooled by it, and it drops. It'll go as a hit for Baldwin with one out here in the second. Runner at first, one down for Ozzie Albies. Slaps this one toward left field, and that hangs up in a nice sliding catch made in left field by Tommy Pham. Great jump, great route, and he needed all of that to get to it. For me, that's a much more difficult play than the one that was hit to center. The pitch, swing and a ground ball on the third, and Hayes gloves it on two hops. The toss across is true, and the Braves are through in the second. Chris Saobie facing Canario, Pham, and Triolo, six, seven, and eight in their order. Slider is looking good here on this Sunday. Takes care of Canario. Three strikeouts through six hitters for sale. 36-year-old dealing to the 37-year-old, a couple of veterans. Looks like the pitcher is going to win this battle of veterans. Wide throw, but Matt Olsen with that long arm saves the air. Tommy Pham might be hurt. I mean, he started limping after he got to the bag, and they were walking gingerly before starting to jog back. We've seen good velocity here early on from Chris Saobie averaging just a couple of ticks over 95. He's touched 97. He's feeling good this afternoon. Goodbye. Boy, he fooled him there. 97 with a fastball, and that was that sword swing you were referencing yesterday. Not the best swing for Triolo, but strikeout number four for sale. Tommy Pham went gingerly back to the outfield. Saw a little bit of a grimace there, and then as we watched him take the outfield, perhaps feeling it. So we'll see if it affects his range at all. Well, the ball is hit to him here. Opposite field single for Michael Harris to begin the third inning. One out. Second time through the order now. Swing and a miss. Verdugo strikes out on a high fastball. First strikeout of the game registered by Majinski. Full count on Riley. Harris goes, and the pitch swung on and missed. He struck him out. A fastball away. Back-to-back strikeouts for Carmen Majinski. So Reynolds is at first now with two outs for Andrew McCutchen. Sets and comes home. Swing, fly ball, center field. Got underneath it. Harris went back at it and has to come in on it, and he'll slide and make the catch in shallow center field. He came all the way in after darting back on the ball to make the catch to end the inning. The aggressive eyes he wants to get. Runner at second, two down. And the pitch. Swing, fly ball, right field toward the gap, but Reynolds was playing him that way, and he'll make the catch to end the inning. So two out, hit left on for Atlanta. Four scoreless so far for Carmen Majinski. Gorski has an infield hit. So Gorski is on, and keep in mind, too, he has never stolen a base in his brief time in the major leagues. Gorski goes. Baldwin fires. They got him. Good throw from Baldwin. Good tag from Ozzie. Two away. Matt Gorski wasn't on the base paths for long. Drake Baldwin getting it done at the plate with a bat and getting it done here. Left hander comes to the set. And a two-two. Swing and a ball dribbled right up the first baseline. Fair ball. With the right-handed batter up, Olsen playing off the line. Canario turns the bag, heads to second, dropped by White, the right fielder. So Canario slides into second with a two-out double. Two down for Tommy Pham. Runner at second. And the two-two to the plate. In the air to right field, Eli White in line with it. Makes a chest-high catch out at right. Round number three, and they strand Canario at second base. Jared Triolo will lead it off for the Pirates here on his gold glove bobblehead day. And a two-two pitch. Swing and a ground ball hard and through base hit. Jared Triolo is on. Makes a big round. Across the bag at first. He's got a leadoff single. That'll be swung on miss. They'll just wipe them out with a slider. One out. And back to the top of the order for Key Brian Hayes. Swing and a soft tapper toward the third baseman, Riley. And he tried to glove it. And it pops into the air. They're normally pretty good over there with Riley. He does try to use the glove, but he got stuck out there in the webbing of the glove. So Hayes on with an infield hit. Double steal attempt. Throw to third. He's in there. Triolo steals. And Hayes right behind him. A double steal for the Pirates. And so now second and third with one out. One and O on Brian Reynolds. And it gets past Baldwin to the backstop. And the Pirates play to run. One nothing. Pirates getting aggressive here in the fifth. And he whiffed it completely. Just maybe at the very end of his glove. First career pass ball for Baldwin. And now Bucks on the pond for Andrew McCutcheon. Singled in two tries already. Batting with men at first and third. Swing fly ball left field. Routine for Verdugo. Deep enough. Hayes will tag. And here comes the throw home. It's right on the money but late. Hayes scores. Reynolds to second. Sacrifice fly. Andrew McCutcheon. Two nothing. Pirates. Here's Bart. And Bart's been red hot at the plate. Yeah another single gets the Pirates another run. In the air to right field. How hot is Joey Bart? Throw to the plate. Not going to get him. Three nothing. And the way that things have been going in this series. Three runs in one frame. Feels like an explosion. Frustrating thing for Sale is the Pirates didn't really hit the ball particularly hard. He'll put Bay at first. Pham at the plate. Check swing. They appeal. Strike three. The Pham goes down. Went out for Jared Triolo. And the 0-2. Swing and a miss on a 97 mile an hour fastball. Back to back strikeouts by Sale. Here's Leover Pagaro. There he goes. The 1-0 is down low. Throw down. Bay has it stolen easily. And the pitch. Way inside. It rolls away from Baldwin. Oh it's going to be a hit by pitch. Got him in the foot. Brian Snitker is coming out. The Braves manager is going to make a pitching change here. And that's it for Chris Sale. Two out single. That extends the inning for Matt Olsen. 0-1 pitch. And he'll swing and drive one down the right field line. That's a fair ball. All the way into the corner. And rattles around. And Riley hits the bag at third and holds. It's a double by Olsen. That hit the corner. Kicked off the wall. Hit on the top of the sidewall. And came back into the field of play. Base is loaded. The plot thickens. Pitching change. Drama building. The Braves are not going to use Drake Baldwin. Brian Snitker is going to bring in the right handed hitting Sean Murphy here where the base is loaded. And two outs. We'll see if Murph can come through big here. Murphy. Not to left center. Bay sprints over. He won't get there. Circle the bases, boys. This ball game is tied at three. Sean Murphy off the bench with a bases clearing double. The right button punched right there to bring him off the bench. And he's able to shoot the gap past Bay. And we're tied at three in the eighth. It's a 3-3 game into the bottom of the ninth inning. Adam Frazier will lead off. He's pitch hitting for Leover Pagaro. For Iglesias, the last time we saw him was on the eighth against Cincinnati. A bit of a reset. And ready to go to work here. Line towards center field and gets down. A pinch hit single for Adam Frazier to begin the bottom of the ninth. He's on for Hayes. Roller right side base hit. Frazier's going to wind up at third. First and third. Now they'll walk McCutchen. That loads the bases with one down for Joey Bart. The hottest hitter in this lineup. A roll of the dice here. Can Bart come through again? Ground ball left side. Sliding stop. Thrown to the plate. Rays to Johnny Roger. Take two of three. Infield hit. Pirates defeat the Braves and win this series. They take them down four to three.