{"id":679328,"date":"2026-04-19T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:34:08","slug":"cedric-mullins-homers-in-13th-to-lift-rays-past-pirates-in-rain-soaked-game-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679328\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Mullins homers in 13th to lift Rays past Pirates in rain-soaked game \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776627248_950_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-uuid=\"c7c2a0a2-98c9-5db1-8c5c-125e57e371db\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Pittsburgh, Monday, April 13, 2026. Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Cedric Mullins led off the 13th inning with a two-run home run and the Tampa Bay Rays outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 on a rainy Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Mullins\u2019 blast to right field off Yohan Ramirez scored automatic runner Jonny DeLuca. Mullins entered the day hitting just .129 after signing with Tampa Bay in the offseason as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Griffin Jax (1-2) pitched a scoreless 12th. Yoendrys Gomez allowed a run-scoring single to rookie Konnor Griffin in the bottom of the 13th, then struck out Joey Bart with runners on second and third to end it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Both teams scored a run in the 11th. The Rays\u2019 Taylor Walls came around from first on a wild pickoff throw by Ramirez (2-1). The Pirates countered with Griffin\u2019s run-scoring fielder\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Pittsburgh tied it at 5 in the eighth on rookie Nick Yorke\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The first pitch was moved up 30 minutes in hopes that the teams could beat the rain. However, play was stopped for 2 hours, 27 minutes, with the Pirates leading 4-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Rays then scored five runs in the fifth to take a 5-4 lead. Junior Caminero doubled in the first run and scored on Jonathan Aranda\u2019s single. Two batters later, pinch-hitter DeLuca lined a two-run single to center field, and Mullins followed with a go-ahead single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Pirates ace Paul Skenes pitched four scoreless innings on his bobblehead day, including escaping a bases-loaded jam with none out in the second. The 2025 NL Cy Young Award did not return after the delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Rays starter Drew Rasmussen gave up two-run home runs to Ryan O\u2019Hearn in the first inning and Marcell Ozuna in the fourth, but the Pirates couldn\u2019t hold the 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,9331,9323,9318,9338,9344,9347,9322,9326,9324,1242,9325,9330,9321,9343,9337,9320,9341,9329,9319,9332,1358,9345,4,9335,169,6423,3838,9336,10,776,64,4297,7502,9327,9340,9339,9328,9346,9334,9333,9342],"class_list":{"0":"post-679328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bruin","10":"tag-butler","11":"tag-butler-eagle","12":"tag-cabot","13":"tag-callery","14":"tag-cherry-valley","15":"tag-community-news","16":"tag-connoquenessing","17":"tag-cranberry","18":"tag-crime","19":"tag-east-butler","20":"tag-eau-claire","21":"tag-education-news","22":"tag-evans-city","23":"tag-fairview","24":"tag-government-news","25":"tag-harmony","26":"tag-harrisville","27":"tag-high-school-sports-news","28":"tag-karns-city","29":"tag-local-news","30":"tag-mars","31":"tag-mlb","32":"tag-mount-chesnut","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-obituaries","35":"tag-pennsylvania","36":"tag-petrolia","37":"tag-pirates","38":"tag-pittsburgh","39":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","40":"tag-pittsburghpirates","41":"tag-political-news","42":"tag-portersville","43":"tag-sarver","44":"tag-saxonburg","45":"tag-slippery-rock","46":"tag-valencia","47":"tag-west-liberty","48":"tag-west-sunbury","49":"tag-zelienople"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}