• Who: Pirates (7-4) vs. Padres (5-6)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 12
• When: 12:35 p.m.
• Where: PNC Park
• Pitchers: RHP Mitch Keller (1-0, 1.50 ERA) vs. RHP Michael King (0-1, 3.38)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh, Padres.tv
• Stream: SNP 360 (local), MLB.tv (out of market)
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Satellite: SiriusXM 175/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Padres

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• Bart wins an ABS challenge on the first pitch to Bogaerts. However, he reaches on an infield single on the next pitch. Slow hopper that Gonzales fielded, but the throw wasn’t strong enough to get him.

• Lowe flies out to left. Two stranded, but the Pirates get two back after the Padres’ four-run seventh. José Urquidy is coming in to pitch the eighth. Griffin goes to shortstop. Yorke goes to first base. Gonzales to third base.

• Cruz reaches on a 3-6 fielder’s choice. Runners on the corners, two outs. Lowe coming to the plate.

• Mangum walks. Runners on first and second, one out. Cruz coming to the plate. He’s mashed lefties this season.

• RUN: Joey Bart follows Konnor Griffin’s RBI with one of his own. He drives in Nick Gonzales with an RBI single up the middle. Padres, 4-2

• RUN: Pinch-hitting for Spencer Horwitz, Konnor Griffin lines one to left field. Laureano makes a great catch to limit the damage, but Nick Yorke scores on the sac fly. Padres, 4-1

• Konnor Griffin is pinch-hitting for Horwitz.

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• Yorke leads off the Pittsburgh seventh with a single up the middle, then Gonzales follows with a double into the left field corner. That’ll be it for King. Left-hander Kyle Hart is coming in to pitch for the Padres. Horwitz up with runners on second and third, nobody out.

• Back-to-back strikeouts for Lawrence to send the San Diego seventh. But the damage has been done. Stretch time, Pirates need four runs to tie it up.

• HOME RUN: With one out in the seventh, Justin Lawrence is taken deep by Jake Cronenworth. Two-run shot to right center. Padres, 4-0

• RUNS: Nick Castellanos hits one deep to left field out of reach of a diving Jake Mangum. Both Xander Bogaerts and Miguel Andujar score. Padres, 2-0

• Oh, boy. Andujar doubles. Runners on second and third, nobody out. Castellanos coming to the plate.

• Nice play by Gonzales to his left, but the throw is wild. Bogaerts reaches on a throwing error to start the San Diego seventh.

• Mitch Keller’s final line: Six innings, three hits, no runs, one walk, four strikeouts on 75 pitches (49 strikes). Still scoreless heading to the seventh.

• The Pirates go down in order for the second inning in a row. Just five hits combined between the two teams today. It’ll now be a bullpen game. Justin Lawrence is coming in after Keller tosses six scoreless.

• Keller escapes the San Diego sixth unscathed. Sheets hammers a 98.6-mph liner to right-center field, but Cruz gets there to squeeze it for the final out.

• With the infield pulled in, Gonzales does a great job of tracking down a looper from Merrill and catches it for the second out, keeping Laureano at third base. Sheets coming to the plate with two down.

• Laureano gets a good jump and steals third. Bart’s throw is on the money and the tag from Yorke was there, but third base umpire Ryan Blakney ruled Yorke was blocking the bag. Laureano awarded third base. Still one down. Merrill at the plate.

• Tatis strikes out swinging. Laureano swipes second base on the high throw from Bart.

• Laureano leads off with a single down the left field line. Great hustle and play by Mangum to play that off the angled wall in foul territory to keep Laureano from stretching that into a double.

• Pirates go quietly in the home half of the fifth. Ends with Campusano winning an ABS challenge to get Cruz looking at strike three for the final out.

• Keller gets out of it. Cronenworth flies out to left. Still looking really good at 58 pitches through five scoreless innings.

• Keller gets Campusano swinging. Two down.

• Keller walks Castellanos. Two on, one out for Campusano.

• Andujar breaks a streak of 10 straight retired by Keller with one out in the fifth. Single up the middle. He then steals second with relative ease.

• After Yorke leads off the fourth with a walk, Gonzales flies out to deep center and Horwitz grounds into a 3-6 inning-ending double play. Still scoreless after four.

• Keller’s retired nine in a row. He’s at just 38 pitches through four innings.

• O’Hearn grounds into an inning-ending 3-6-1 double play.

• Reynolds walks. His second in as many plate appearances. Two on, one out for O’Hearn.

• Lowe hammers one, but right at Tatis in right field.

• Cruz demolishes a ball 114.6 mph that clanks off the Clemente Wall for a leadoff double in the third. That would have been a home run in 17 of 30 ballparks, according to Baseball Savant.

• Keller looking good early. Just one baserunner, two strikeouts, no walks through three innings, just 29 pitches. Still scoreless heading to the Pittsburgh third.

• Mangum hits one deep the other way, but Laureano is able to track it down. Onto the third.

• Bart strikes out. Up to Mangum to keep it going.

• Bart just misses a three-run shot, pulling it foul. That was a rocket.

• With one out, Horwitz grounds to King, who tries to nab Yorke between second and third. But Yorke gets back to second safely and Horwitz reaches safely on the fielder’s choice. Two on, one out. Bart up to the plate.

• Yorke gets the Pirates started with a double in the second.

• Keller gets out of the leadoff double unscathed. He gets Bogaerts to line out to short, Andujar to ground out to first and Castellanos to pop out to second.

• Sheets leads off the San Diego second with a double.

• O’Hearn grounds out to second. Quiet first inning for both sides.

• Reynolds draws a two-out walk. First baserunner of the game.

• Keller fell behind Laureano 3-1, but got him to fly out to center. Then got two quick outs by getting Tatis to pop out and Merrill down on strikes on three pitches. Just nine pitches in the inning. That’ll do.

• FIRST PITCH: Mitch Keller fires in ball one and we’re underway from PNC Park.

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• Don Kelly’s lineup: 

1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Brandon Lowe, 2B
3. Bryan Reynolds, RF
4. Ryan O’Hearn, DH
5. Nick Yorke, 3B
6. Nick Gonzales, SS
7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
8. Joey Bart, C
9. Jake Mangum, LF

• Craig Stammen’s lineup for the visitors: 

1. Ramon Laureano, LF
2. Fernando Tatis Jr., RF
3. Jackson Merrill, CF
4. Gavin Sheets, 1B
5. Xander Bogaerts, SS
6. Miguel Andujar, 3B
7. Nick Castellanos, DH
8. Luis Campusano, C
9. Jake Cronenworth, 2B