Mike Burrows Strikes Out Six in Victory | Astros vs. Pirates Game Highlights (6/4/25)

Burroughs numbers his first couple of starts as I said that all that great need to turn him around three home runs in eight innings it's definitely to clean up tonight the ball in the ballpark Jeremy Peña shortstop Burroughs with the payoff swing and a foul tip struck him out. He had not struck out in 30 plate appearances and Burroughs gets him to start the ballgame. One out nobody on for Isak Paredes right handed hitting third baseman. It's worth their ninety six back to back case for Burroughs bring up Jose Altuve pop up shallow center. Look at O'Neal Cruz got there easy didn't he sure did one two three Bucs come to bat against Ryan Gusto on the mound for Game 2 Ryan Gusto. You can see splitting time between that bullpen and starts overall his numbers this season are three and two record at a four point six two E.R. Ray. He has totaled thirty nine innings pitched forty two strikeouts in that time that number 19. Those are the walks in the time he's been out there a little bit of an issue with control and some of these starts. Happy anniversary to Andrew McCutchen. Sixteen years ago today. Can you believe it. He made his major league debut here. And now McCutchen goes down on strikes. Ryan Gusto picking up his first strikeout of the night getting McCutchen for the second out. So it was two outs and he got ahead of Brian Reynolds before walking Reynolds then a four pitch walk to Horwitz and now a first pitch that tails in and clips to Brian Hayes to load the bases wherever that confidence was as a high schooler. Gusto needs to regain that confidence at the major league level. Little Tapper that Paredes want to charge gloves and throws just in time to get Frazier for the final out the pirate stray in the base loaded Gusto working around a couple of walks in a hit batter Christian Walker stands in. Work three days for Burroughs Burroughs already matched his career high strikeouts for batters into this game. Victor Carrutini is going to have himself a double here with two outs Astros have their first base runner. Here's Myers rolled weakly to short kinder Philippa collects it and gets it out of the first for the final out. So that two hour double left stranded and the pirates come to bat at the bottom of the second still scoreless. Tommy Pham will lead it off. Short chance for an infield to hit out. They're going to challenge that one. Heck of a play by Jeremy Pena by the way and they will challenge me. I didn't see anything clear and convincing yet. I mean there's a there's a couple of views of it. You know is it enough to turn it over. The one thing that they may or may not have that angle but they can sync up multiple views. They're all time coded so you can see exactly if there's any shot of when the ball contacts the interior of Walker's glove. After a view of the call in the field's overturned the runner is safe. It's a lead off hit for Pham of the lead off man on for Andy Rodriguez hit hard and that's a fair ball for Andy Rodriguez into the right field corner. It goes and it sticks around there. Rebella will hold Pham on the double by Andy Rodriguez second and third and nobody out counterfeiter to hit yesterday and that will get the run home. You would think Pena thought about it instead wisely goes to first and it's one nothing pirates and a kind of Falefa ground ball that scores Pham infield hit for Cruz and Bucks on the pond for Andrew McCutchen coming up. Yeah that was a hit as soon as it left O'Neill Cruz's bat McCutchen drives one to left and this will score a run. The sacrifice flies Melton will make the catch and McCutchen will pick up another Rivi and it's two to nothing. Two outs for Brian Reynolds swing and a miss Gusto strikes out Reynolds to end the inning or two runs in the inning on three hits. Cam Smith starts things for the Astros here in the third inning line to left on the run. Pham makes a nice catch diving toward the line Tommy Pham taking control of that big left field. The defense really is picked up a lot of late to be honest Pham's playing a really fine defense all year out there. Jacob Melton the batter and there's a strikeout for Burroughs or a strikeout for Mike Burroughs. That's impressive. Two men gone and back to the top for Jeremy Pena. There's a base hit. How about Jeremy Pena. Ten game hitting streak his second double digit hitting streak of the season back at it. Three one is swinging a ball roll cued really do second base and Frazier gets it on the first for the final out and had a lot of anguish. Frazier took care of it cleanly one hit one left we'll go to the bottom of the third it's still to nothing. Pirates Hayes singles advancing Horwitz to third and Bucks on the pond with Frazier coming up double play ball. They got what they wanted. Pirates get one it's three to nothing as Diaz on his first with two men gone for Victor Caratini strike three called it packed a lot of punch a couple of hits one left and the pirates leading three nothing coming to bat at the bottom of the fourth. Here's O'Neal Cruz one for two to the left center field gap. That's just impressive right there. The center fielder Meyers the left fielder Melton were kind of pinching to try and close that left center gap and he hit it so hard. It's an easy double. He puts on a show. Look at that. Look at the left fielder in the center fielder trying to close that gap. Hundred and thirteen point eight miles an hour. He's taken off for third with two outs no one's covering the bag so he'll just pick up another steal there. You let that just Nicky in the arm or something. You're going home. McCutchen had a sack fly his last time up. That's a swing called on McCutchen. That'll be a strikeout for Gusto who picks up his third strikeout of the game shutout inning for Ryan and the Astros down three nothing to have nobody on for Jacob Melton struck out his first time three to swing and foul tip struck him down ninety five at the top of the zone Burroughs with another strikeout his fan six tonight just have the top of the order trying to solve Mike Burroughs who will face the lineup for the third time this time he sends a three pitch down the line and left and that falls off the wall right to Tommy Pham. Payne is going to have to hustle and he'll get into second with a leadoff double Payne a second into the night. He fell down at the plate on that swing. It looked like he was on skates went down to his back knee Astros trying to get something going here had a pitch up in the end. Jeremy turns on that back leg just collapses. He's a parade is standing in line drive to pitch not to fail. He's going to take about right now and let him leave feeling pretty good about his performance here tonight. And then let the bullpen go to work and be removed after 70 pitches. But it's his longest outing in more than three years in professional ball. Mike Burroughs goes five and a third so far scoreless didn't walk anybody tonight. Jay Sugar and his numbers pitch very well and I think Greg this is kind of been his spot to try to get the inning over with to get out of a little bit of a jam and a ball for it. Kind of backed up and stayed in two on with one out and Christian Walker who homered yesterday represents the tying run here in the sixth swing and a foul tip struck about up and in with a fastball finish him off. Ninety five upstairs two outs and now Yiner Diaz bounce to Hayes thought about running to first to third goes to first and gets the out and a good job again by Sugar. New pitcher for the pirates is Braxton Ashcraft is right fielder Cam Smith swung through and missed the slider. And that's how number two in the seventh struck him out looking in a curve ball scoreless seventh for Ashcraft. Here we go. Ninth inning and coming in a lock it down. Here comes David Bednar two and two on Christian Walker Bednar delivers swing and a miss. He struck him out through it right by him at ninety eight one out literally right by him right down the middle. That's just need one more runner on to bring the tying run to the plate. Swung through and missed he struck him out on the splitter two out in the ninth. Jake Meyers one for three kept his four game hitting streak going with a single as last time a swing fly ball deep center Cruz back on it still back on he makes a catch over his shoulder on the run and that ends the ball game. David Bednar with the save Mike Burroughs earned a shutout win goes three to nothing.