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Pittsburgh Pirates’ Nick Gonzales (3) celebrates with Billy Cook (25) and Marcell Ozuna, center, after scoring on Bryan Reynolds’ two-run single against the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo\/Tom E. Puskar)<\/p>\n
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 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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
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
\u201cI felt really good,\u201d Keller said. \u201cI just wanted to bounce back from the last one \u2014 be on the gas, just be on the attack and try not to walk anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
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
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
\u201cThere\u2019s never a doubt with this offense,\u201d Keller said. \u201cWe\u2019ve proven that we\u2019re always in it and we\u2019re always going to fight and claw back. Giving up two there, I just needed to keep it right there.\u201d<\/p>\n
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
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
Mangum, Gonzales, and Reynolds \u2014 the top three hitters in the lineup \u2014 each had two of the Pirates\u2019 12 hits.<\/p>\n
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
\u201c(Keller\u2019s performance) was huge,\u201d Pirates manager Don Kelly said. \u201cHonestly, probably the biggest start of the year with where our bullpen was at. For him to be as strong as he was and get the \u2018W\u2019 for the team, it was unbelievable. Just the way he attacked the zone and mixed up pitches, he did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game<\/p>\n
Cedric Mullins led off the 13th inning with a two-run home run and the Rays outlasted the Pirates 8-7 on a rainy Saturday night.<\/p>\n
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
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 Bart with runners on second and third to end it.<\/p>\n
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
Pittsburgh tied it at 5 in the eighth on Yorke\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n
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
The Rays then scored five runs in the fifth to take a 5-4 lead. 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
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
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
Up next<\/p>\n
The Pirates are off today before opening a three-game series on Tuesday at Texas, where they will see former teammate Andrew McCutchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates’ Nick Gonzales (3) celebrates with Billy Cook (25) and Marcell Ozuna, center, after scoring on Bryan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-679591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pirates","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116434990230866041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679591","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=679591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}