Twins vs. Pirates Game Highlights (5/30/26) | MLB Highlights

Glorious weather on a Saturday afternoon baseball coming your way from PNC Park the Pirates taking on the twins in game two of the series Mitch Keller good career numbers as we told you against Minnesota he'll try to keep that going here this afternoon. Yeah you really do coming off a really good start in Toronto and he's got one closer. Yeah nice look at a sweeper and a swing and a miss the change up add that to the list. Eight eighty five career strikeouts for Keller one two three in the top of the first and a look at Bailey over the nightmare. As you said we need him to be scary today facing Spencer Horwitz who's in that left hand batter's box Horwitz to deep right. Sia one nothing pirates Spencer Horwitz is locked in. That was a blast to clear the seats out in right field and nobody hits home runs better to Spencer Horwitz with a nice little peek to the dugout. A beautiful swing right there for a leadoff hitter for the pirates. Well the last time a pirate batted he over the one of the game. How about a leadoff homerun right afterward and a shot past the second base. He saw in the right field diving to his left could not knock it down. Reynolds has a one out single Nick Gonzalez with a base hit. Oh great base running. Love that running bucks. With the two outs setting up a scoring opportunity for these pirates. And there's the big problem with O'Neill Cruz major league worst 90th strikeout one to runner goes pitch is swung on a mist and down goes Connor Griffin outstanding job by Bailey over to get a couple of strikeouts and avoid further harm. Cody Clemens who lashes the first pitch of the inning to left center field and deep that's going to clear Cruz bounce on the warning track and roll against the wall. Clemens into second pitter batters to a stop there. It's an opposite field gap double for Cody Clemens who just keeps hitting Clemens good base run he ran right over the top of that ball to get to third Windsor set up for a run scoring opportunity infield in for Carrotini and he goes after the first one in to left Mangum coming down that's trouble. It gets all the way to the wall. We've got a tie game on a RBI double from Victor Carrotini. That was awesome right there. That was at the top of the zone. OK hits it down in the left field Mangum tries to have make a play here and there's nobody backing him up. That thing went all the way to the wall. So it's just how far can Carrotini run again. We see this look at look at him get up there and go chase that ball down to be able to hold Carrotini to his double Tristan Gray had a big two out two run single actually a one out two run single in the second yesterday 0 2 pitch from Keller couldn't hold his swing. They appeal third base way hits a strikeout and Keller's third and no Jake Mangum wants to get going. Feels like he wants to have a little more consistency in zone the pitch fly ball to right center field. That should be extra bases and Jake Mangum has left the ballpark. His first home run Mangum Mayhem gives the pirates a two one lead in the second inning at PNC Park over the right center field wall and wouldn't hit all that high. I did not think it was a home run. I thought that's like like a line drive kind of semi line drive into the gap for extra bases. I was thinking triple refused to come home fly ball to left and drop Larnach the left fielder couldn't see it and it drops about five feet to his left pitch from over line drive right field base hit for Lowe and has to feel good. He's been frustrated the last few ballgames. There's ball for that wasn't close. Base is loaded all coming after two men were out. Let's see if Nick Gonzalez can break open this game. Let's get a fine grass base hit. Nick Gonzalez drives into four to one pirates. There is nothing better than a big league run producer. They come all shapes sizes. Nick Gonzalez is definitely become exactly that three one pitch inside third watch him take his hands through there. Just a good swing using the middle of the field head down pick up a couple RBI with two outs. Nothing more demoralizing for a pitcher than that. Twins are dizzied here in the second inning. Now you got Cruz coming up when there's ducks on the pond. Cash him in fly ball center field hit deep to the track approaching the wall. Clear the O'Neill Cruz homers over the center field wall. Three run last seven one Bucks 13 for Cruz. He's like stay back hit it to our dug or our bullpen hit it toward our bullpen. Don't get way out in front. He's not a hard thrower and he smashes one right into the bullpen. So with two outs it'll be up to Cody Clemens. He rocketed a double into the left center field came around to score the Twins only run that tied the game at one. And here's Cody sending it high and deep to center cruises back. Cruz can't make the catch and that one rolls to the right. Here comes Clemens on his way to third and he's got a triple another extra base hit and the second Twins run makes it seven to. That's what I'm talking about right there. I thought the sweeper was going to be the pitch instead. He goes change up down and Cody I mean just keeping the hands back with enough power to get it past Cruz here which would have driven off the wall and as soon as that ball hits off his glove you know he's got more than two he gets the third base here. There's a rocket up the middle and R.C. is on with a one out single Luke Keishel is going to have a stretch sooner than later where he gets on a tear again this one into right field and maybe that's where it starts. R.C. are going to third and there it is bottom of the order coming through and just again the Twins have runners at the corners with only one away. Here's a drive out into right center field. Nobody's getting to this baby. It's one hopped off the wall. Tristan Gray stay hot. He drives into and the Twins are right back in business at seven four. I mean all I did was ask for it and this Twins team coming through bottom of the order with a rally here in the fourth. Gray gets this sweeper and does not miss it hits it in that gap and Luke Keishel got such a good read here. You see him as soon as he realizes that falls in the gap. He's scoring pay off and it's ball for Josh Bell's still the time run for the Twins. He's over to Bell shoots one to third. That's a base hit over the head of a leaping Gonzalez. Gray is going to score. Here comes Byron Byron gets the send Byron to home plate with a head first slide. He scores it's a one run game an opposite field to run double for Josh Bell and the twins strike with two outs in the fourth. It's a four run inning and it's now seven six Pittsburgh. Well you knew Byron wasn't stopping. No Byron had the lean going around second base lost his helmet in between second and third and he was at about a 45 degree angle as he rounded third base. I don't think it mattered what Ramon Borrego told him to do. He was going he was going to try to catch Tristan Gray head first slide into home plate and now a belt in a right field by Cody Clemens. Here comes Bell throw coming in. We've got a tie game. I mean asking you shall receive the bottom of the order gets on base flips it over Bucks in with the walk Josh Bell with the double and now Cody Clemens a homer away from the cycle. And Lau Singleton scored in the sixth run second Lau is going to challenge this and Alex Toschi denied the challenge from Brandon Lau. No that is no way he went to his helmet immediately he went immediately and I can't understand why it would be disallowed to try to hit your way on the only thing you can do about that. Yeah that's that is frustration. Oh no. They just who do they just toss out of the game. Brandon Lau the first base umpire just tossed somebody out of the game. Wait wait wait. What's going on here. Now that this is the first time I've ever seen this. And if if if Lau got tossed for being frustrated no matter what he says at first base nobody would ever know that there is no way that you can eject a player for that. That's bad taste all the way around. I mean because nobody would know except for the home plate umpire Josh Bell at first base and Brandon Lau and Tariq Brock one man down here in the bottom of the fifth inning. The batter Connor Griffin bounce bounce. There we go. That's all you need to do is bounce. Andy Rodriguez is saying that's catcher interference and it is I'll see if Jake Mangum can take advantage of that runner in scoring position with Conor Griffin. Here's the one one line drive base hit to left field. Connor Griffin going to be waived. Here comes the throw to the plate. He is safe head first dive pirates regain the lead Mangum lines it to left Griffin diving head first into home plate pops up and a big high five to Jared Triolo. I don't know if we get very many guys with scored on that ball. That was a strong throw. It was hard hit Rodriguez a leadoff free pass. Andy Rodriguez takes off. Nice job. Running Bucks first career stolen base for Andy Rodriguez gets it down first baseline. It's a dandy. They're not going to get him Mangum but hit picked up along the first baseline by the lefty pitcher Funderburg first and third. Nobody out here in the seventh looking for insurance. Mangum dives into the bag is stolen bases his seventh and eight attempts this season. Jared Triolo has another opportunity a runner on scoring position. That'll do it. Colin Fass down. Triolo with RBI number four pirates lead by two. You'll take that broken bat single any time we have a runner out there in scoring position. There goes Triolo. No chance for parents in it. Glenn Watson Reynolds could make our day. He could deliver here on base four times two singles two walks the pitch drive to right field going back is Martin he makes the catch on the track sack fly will bring home another run. That ball was squared up Reynolds delivers Mangum scores ten seven pirates in the bottom of the line. They're the guys that started that fourth inning rally. The twins are going to need that from the bottom. And now this one squirted fair down the right field line Kishol adjusted to the two strike pitch and gives the twins a little glimmer of hope in the eighth. The pitch hitter Kreider will walk and now the tying run does come up one pitch swung on and hit high in the air right field has got some Kerry Reynolds going back in front of the Clemente wall and that is off the Clemente wall. Kishol held up and he has to stop at third base. So it goes is nothing more than a single off the wall for Byron Buxton Reynolds played himself back to the wall. It hit about 12 feet up on a 21 foot high wall and Byron Buxton just a single to show for it as the bases will be loaded. Well Brooks Lee is going to hit for Larnik Brooks Lee has had more plate appearances with the bases loaded than anybody in baseball this year and he's been really good tying runs out there loaded bases and a walk to bring back in the run. The twins make it a two run game and they're still loaded for Josh Bell swung on and tapped towards first base. It's a fair ball. It's picked up by Horowitz and he steps on the base to force Bell but Bell does get Gray home before he cried Lear home from third and it's a one run game again the tying and go ahead runs are on here in the eighth inning. This is going to be a really good matchup. So go against Cody Clemens who's on a cycle watch bouncing ball backhanded nicely by Callahan Pirates second baseman throws on the first to get Clemens nice backhand play by Tyler Callahan. Gregory Soto came on and got the final out in the eighth inning two pitches for his first four out save in four years. And look at Victor Carrotini and opening the window a crack to bring up the go ahead run the pitch line drive left field that's trouble back is Mangum. He gets there in left center field to make the catch and back to first goes Altman and two outs in the ninth. Now most of the fans here in Pittsburgh rise to their feet with the Pirates on the verge of back to back one run wins. Toward the wall Reynolds the Pirates beat the twins by the thinnest of margins but yet they had him all the way. The Bucs bats beat Minnesota today.