Arizona DiamondbacksvsPittsburgh Pirates
ARI 2/PIT 3
Things to say
The Pirates beat the Diamondbacks 3-2 in 10 innings at PNC Park.
01
opener
Pirates walked it off in the tenth, 3-2 over Arizona. Tight one the whole way. Both these teams are dead even at 55-52, so it actually mattered.
02
key player
Whoever came up in the bottom of the tenth for Pittsburgh was the guy — you don't win a one-run game in extras without somebody putting a good swing on it in the clutch.
03
hot take
Two teams with identical records and it comes down to a walk-off? That's not luck, that's Arizona's pen blinking first once it got to the tenth.
04
deep cut
Nobody left the yard in this one — 3-2 in ten innings tells you it was manufactured runs and pitching, not a slugfest. PNC plays big like that.
05
exit
Anyway, free-baseball win for the Bucs. We'll see if they carry it into the next one.
The recap
The Pirates and Diamondbacks slugged it out to a 2-2 standstill at PNC Park, and this one needed free baseball to settle it. Pittsburgh walked it off in the tenth to steal it 3-2, the kind of ballgame where the bullpen holds the line just long enough for somebody to come through in the bottom half.
Two clubs sitting dead even at 55-52 traded zeros late, but the Bucs found the run when it counted. Nothing tidy about it, just a getaway-day grind that went the home team's way.