Pittsburgh Pirates at St. Louis Cardinals

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Pittsburgh Pirates

66-71, 32-39 Away

Final
6 - 2

St. Louis Cardinals

68-69, 34-37 Home

Flores Jr., Lowe hit homers to spark Pirates to 6-2 win over Cardinals

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals: Game Highlights

The Pirates entered the game, having scored only eight runs in their previous six games.

Carmen Mlodzinski (7-6), the third Pirates pitcher, gave up one run and one hit in 3 1/3 innings. Six Pittsburgh pitchers held the Cardinals to just three hits.

Rookie Brycen Mautz (0-1) took the loss in his MLB debut for St. Louis. He gave up four runs on five hits and a walk in three innings. Mautz struck out eight.

In the fifth, Flores drove a 3-2 slider into the left-field bleachers for a three-run homer, extending Pittsburgh’s advantage to 5-1.

Three consecutive errors in the sixth led to a run for St. Louis. With one out, shortstop Jocob Gonzalez booted two grounders followed by center fielder Oneil Cruz misplaying a routine fly. Pittsburgh also made three errors in Friday’s game.

The Pirates went up 2-1 in the fourth. Jake Mangum singled to left but rookie Joshua Baez misplayed it and then didn’t hustle after it. Mangum raced to third and was ruled out before the call was challenged and overturned. Mautz then gave up a run-scoring single to Gonzalez.

Baez hit his first home run at Busch Stadium in the third inning, sending an 0-1 slider from reliever Evan Sisk into the left-field seats. Baez made history when homered in each of his first three major league at-bats on Aug. 15 in Chicago.

Lowe homered in the first inning with one out.

Before the game, the Cardinals designated reliever Caleb Ferguson for assignment and recalled Mautz.

Up next Cardinals LHP Matthew Liberatore (5-12, 5.44) faces Pirates’ RHP Braxton Ashcraft (13-5, 3.59) on Sunday afternoon in the series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Urías struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Urías hit for Crooks
	9th Inning	Báez flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Saggese struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Montgomery relieved Weaver
	9th Inning	Saggese hit for Gorman

Statistics

PIT		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
10	Ground Balls	9
13	Strikeouts	7
6	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
11	Hits	3
0	Stolen Bases	0
4	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
37	At Bats	33
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
14	Fly Balls	17
1	Caught Stealing	0
153	Pitches	134
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
18	Total Bases	7
41	Plate Appearances	36
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
6.2	Runs Created	0.6
.297	Batting Average	.091
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.486	Slugging Percentage	.212
.270	Secondary Average	.182
.366	On Base Percentage	.167
.852	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.379
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
6.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	0.5
43.0	Batter Rating	14.0
18.5	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.73	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.72
.189	Isolated Power	.121
0.31	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.29
.098	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.056
-.027	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.091
12.0	Runs Produced	3.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.5
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.1
91.0	MLB Rating	63.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0

Game Information

Busch Stadium

Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Attendance: 26,265 | Capacity:

2026 National League Central Standings

TEAM	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Milwaukee	-	58	W3	0.6282051	98
Chicago	11	69	W2	0.5576923	87
Pittsburgh	19	77	W4	0.50641024	79
St. Louis	22	80	W1	0.4871795	76
Cincinnati	26	84	L2	0.46153846	72

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