{"id":679397,"date":"2026-04-19T21:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:36:43","slug":"bryan-reynolds-drives-in-3-runs-mitch-keller-lasts-7-as-pirates-take-series-from-rays-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679397\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Reynolds drives in 3 runs, Mitch Keller lasts 7 as Pirates take series from Rays \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776634603_824_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-uuid=\"8312d2a0-6b3e-5d83-9657-76c3c2620d6e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Bryan Reynolds watches his two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, April 10, 2026. Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Bryan Reynolds drove in three runs, Mitch Keller pitched seven strong innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Reynolds\u2019 two-run single to left field capped a three-run fifth and put the Pirates ahead 4-2. The hit came after Nick Gonzales\u2019 tying single drove in Joey Bart, who hit a leadoff double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Keller (2-1) allowed two runs \u2014 on Hunter Feduccia\u2019s single in the fifth \u2014 and five hits while striking out five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Reynolds also drove in the game\u2019s first run on a fielder\u2019s choice in the first that scored Jake Mangum, who led off the inning with a double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Home runs by pinch-hitter Spencer Horwitz in the sixth and Nick Yorke in the eighth extended the Pirates\u2019 lead to 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Tampa\u2019s Shane McClanahan (1-2) gave up four runs and eight hits in 4 1\/3 innings. He had five strikeouts and no walks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Junior Caminero homered leading off the ninth for the Rays, connecting off Wilber Dotel, who was making his major league debut. Dotel retired the next three batters to end the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Mangum, Gonzales and Reynolds \u2014 the top three hitters in the lineup \u2014 each had two of the Pirates\u2019 12 hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Rays lost two of three in the series after entering on a six-game winning streak. The Pirates finished their homestand 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Pirates: Off Monday before opening a three-game series Tuesday at Texas, where they will see former teammate Andrew McCutchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Bryan Reynolds watches his two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679398,"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-679397","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\/679397","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=679397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}