Condensed Game: Boston Red Sox vs Pittsburgh Pirates – August 31, 2025

Condensed Game: Boston Red Sox vs Pittsburgh Pirates – August 31, 2025

On a gorgeous Sunday at Fenway Park, the Red Sox need the win to salvage one against the last place Pirates. They missed a chance to gain on first place Toronto, but round out August in firm control of a wild card spot. Dave Will and Jamai coming your way from Fenway. Thanks so much for tuning in. The Red Sox reportedly signing closer Chapman to an extension. That news breaking yesterday. Red Sox hoping he will pitch today. But you know, this is a guy who’s had a spectacular year at 37. Well, he’s been so good at home. Last five home starts, 4 and 0, an RA of 054. And the Red Sox taking the diamond under sunny skies today. Here’s a look at the starting pitcher brought to you by Toyota.com. Lucas 9 and2 3470 RA terrific against Baltimore last time out. Eight innings, four hits. He walked one and won that game five to nothing. Facing a Pittsburgh Pirate lineup here in game three. They have a couple of guys in the lineup. Born in Nasha, New Hampshire. Triolo at the top and Cam Deainy at third base batting in the nine spot as he makes his major league debut. Local guy out of Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts. So, a gigantic day for him. Let’s look at the Red Sox defense brought to you by Bigalow T. Alex Bregman. He’ll be at third base. Trevor Story will be at short. Roman Gonzalez at second base. Welcome back Nathaniel Low. He’ll be at first. In the outfield, left to right, Jiren Durant, Saddon Raphaela, Roman Anthony, and Carlos Narvay will do the catching. And a big right-hander at 66 into center field coming on St. diving ahead. He left his feet and he hangs on to make the play. Perfectly timed to steal a hit from Gonzalez. Out number one. Well, we saw Sadon lay out for one in Baltimore and it rolled out of his glove and you’re thinking, “All right, here’s another chance.” And you know he’s going to make up for it. Full extension. That’s the hardest one for center fielders. On the line, right at you, going down to get it. And love the reaction from the big guy and scoots away from. There will be no play at home plate as Gonzalez will score and the runners move up to second and third. The Pirates get on the board on a wild one. That’s a slider right there. He just spiked it in the dirt. And Gonzalez scoring easily to make it one to nothing. One down. Hot shot right to the shortstop. A run will score and this game is tied. That’s awesome. That’s it right there. That’s, you know, Nathaniel Lo had that opportunity. He couldn’t get it done in last inning, but Roman didn’t waste any time. Got something over the plate right there. Didn’t try to do too much. Stayed to the middle of the field. Gets the run in. Here we go. Tie ball game. And that’s a shot toward the alley. Carlos in to score. It gets by the outfielders. Here comes Bregman rounding third. It goes all the way to the triangle. Another run in. Here comes Durant. He’s trying to score. He’s going to score all the way around. That’ll wake this place up. Exactly what the Red Sox needed today. Talk about electricity. [Applause] Red Sox lead it four to one. They’re calling that a home run. Wow. This splits the outfield. And you know, if it gets both back all of them in the outfield right there, no one’s getting it. It’s 420 back there in the corner. Nobody’s getting to it. Look at this. It’s just scolded off the bat. And you’re thinking, all right, if it can just get past the right fielder right there, we’re looking at a triple. Swinging a miss for strike three on the sweeper. Trevor Story side retired, but an inside the park home run wakes everybody up and the Socks are in front to one. Little number towards short. Triola will glove it. Throws to first. That’s going to be late as the run scores. Low touch at home plate. Five to one Boston. He hit it just gently enough. Yeah. When things aren’t going well, you’ll take them any way you can get them. And sometimes with two strikes, you just this situation right here, you have to put the ball in play. We’ve had a few of those today. Son does a good job of battling here with two strikes just to get the ball in play. And with that speed, it turns into an infield hit and an RBI. Romy into second. Cam Deainy on deck making his major league debut out of Central Catholic High in Lawrence, Mass. Swinging a highf fly ball, a towering drive to left field and this one way, way back and gone. Totally out of the ballpark for Canario, his fifth home run. So that’ll make it a 5-2 game. Yeah, this is this is what we were seeing from Sllayton his last time out. Cutters kind of not not getting him out across the plate away from these righties where he wants it. That one ends up middle in. It’s the last place you want to cutter. See where this is. Starts in, stays there and he leaned on that one. Didn’t miss it. Brings up Dean who’s fly out. take a ball forward. That thing had some hang time, didn’t it? 405 ft. Cleared everything on the lands down. Big league height [Music] and a two- two home. He got him 100 miles an hour to strike him out. The Red Sox win it 52. They salvage one in the series and that is 15 consecutive hitless appearances by the closer ais Chapman. 52 Boston. Well, Socks been searching for a big hit all weekend. Jiren Durant comes up huge with that in the fifth inning with the three-run inside the park homer. Gelo didn’t have his best stuff. He had to grind through this one. He walked five guys. He did strike out six, but he had 14 swing and miss. This team needed a win today.

Highlights from the Boston Red Sox 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on August 31, 2025.