That's game. Pirates 8, Rangers 4.

Braxton Ashcraft was brilliant. Jake Mangum drove in the go-ahead run in the ninth, and Oneil Cruz added the insurance with a moonshot three-run shot.

The Pirates are 14-10.

Luke Weaver looking skyward on the mound after the Mets won to snap a 12-game losing streak as fire shoots out of the center field wall at Citi Field

tfw you win one (1) baseball game

HOME RUN Oneil Cruz (7)

422 ft (30°, 116.9 mph)
off Jalen Beeks (79.7 mph Cutter, 2489 rpm)
PIT 8-TEX 4 (T9, 0-1, 1 out)

www.mlb.com/video/jalen-beeks-in-pla...

RAISE IT. HOIST IT.

116.9 mph!

Oneil Cruz with the hardest-hit home run this season in MLB

JALEN CHEEKS

imagine sitting above the foul pole and getting a ball because oneil cruz managed to hit a home run off the top of the foul pole and it bounced up to you

oneil cruz is just absurd

I didn't know you could hit a home run off the top of the foul pole, but I guess all things are possible with Oneil Cruz.

Holy shit what a Cruz missile! Bounced off the TOP of the foul pole!

Speedy Gonzales

A team that told us repeatedly that all they wanted was another chance to make the playoffs is showing us that making the playoffs was the extent of their gumption this season.

Cutch singled because, of course he did.

I've said it before and I will say it again. Braxton Ashcraft needs a more chantable name.

Incredible night for Braxton Ashcraft and in front of his whole family.

South Side. East Carson Street. Police were involved in a short foot chase of an assault suspect. It was claimed he looked back at the cops and then ran face first into a pole. One detained, medics requested.

Bucs take the lead.

Wow, the Bobby Bonilla.

Bryan Reynolds singles home Henry Davis. It's the 500th RBI of his career, tied with Bobby Bonilla for the most for a switch-hitter in Pirates franchise history since 1920* (when RBIs became an official stat).

*Max Carey had 721 RBIs in his Pirates career, 351 after 1920.

Brand new ball game in Texas.

oh my god why would Leiter run through all the stuff laying in the on deck circle like that 😳

Horwitz has been quietly having a good season.

Most frustrating thing is this team is likely to get worse again before they get better. Most of the offense is driven by older guys who will nees to be replaced, and PPG guys dont grow on trees. Losing a series of good hockey would be fine, but this trapping and goon shit isnt even entertaining

I switched to the the Pirates game because I was gonna break something expensive in my house

I have no idea what Lizotte was doing on that 2-on-1. If he puts a puck on net that goal likely never happens.

Wow the refs got that make up call in as fast as they could.

what if we left every flyer in the box

that seems like a great idea to me

I think they should keep putting flyers in the box. Its an incredible visual gag.

I'm sure another 2 minutes of 4 on 4 will calm these men down.

Rusty letting that Peaky Blinder hair cut get to his head.