Final: Reds 2, Pirates 0

• who: Pirates (1-2) vs. Reds (2-1)
• What: MLB common season, Game 4
• When: 6:40 pm
• Where: Great American Ball Park
• Pitchers: RHP Braxton Ashcraft vs. RHP Chase Burns
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh, FS1
• Stream: SNP 360 (native), Reds.TV
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Satellite: SiriusXM 175/861
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Average notes: Pirates | Reds

► FOLLOW ALONG

• The Pirates fall to the Reds, 2-0, right here within the opener of a three-game set. Just 4 hits for the guests. Lowe reached thrice. Ashcraft offered six innings of two-run ball. That’s a 1-3 begin to the season.

• Three sweepers and Triolo’s down on strikes. Two whiffs and caught trying. Just unhealthy.

• Great at-bat from O’Hearn. He works a stroll of his personal. Two on, no one out for Triolo.

• Ozuna walks to guide off the ninth.

• Lawrence strikes out the aspect within the eighth.

• justin Lawrence will get the eighth.

• Pirates bats set down so as once more within the eighth. Cruz and Lowe strike out and Reynolds grounds out 4-3.

• Mattson enters for the seventh.

• Three straight whiffs on Ashcraft sliders and Davis strands two. Three strikeouts for Henry right here tonight.

• Pirates now have two on following a two-out single by Gonzales. Looked prefer it went beneath the glove of Hayes over at third. Franco exits and graham Ashcraft will face Davis.

• Lengthy at-bat by Triolo, who fouled off some pitches, and he cannot do something with a slider down the pipe.

• Isaac Mattson warming.

• O’Hearn leads off the seventh with a single to increase his MLB-best energetic hitting streak to 13 video games.

• Ashcraft’s line: 6.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 3 Ok. Longest outing and most pitches thrown (87) as an enormous leaguer.

• Ashcraft does his job and will get by way of six innings of two-run ball. Sure he wasn’t fully sharp, however he is giving this group an opportunity to win. Guys with the bats aren’t doing their half.

• Four walks right here tonight for Ashcraft. Ties a profession excessive. Did it twice final season. Those free passes have put him in some robust conditions, together with the fourth when the Reds scored these two runs.

• Lowe reaches for a 3rd time at present, this time on a leadoff single, solely to be worn out on a 3-6-3 double play off Reynolds’ bat. The latter has been horrendous to start this season.

• Burns allowed one hit and three walks over 5 innings. Struck out seven. Threw 46 of 78 pitches for strikes.

• José Franc replaces Burns. It’ll be his major-league debut.

• Scoring change: Benson now credited with an RBI triple reasonably than a double within the fourth.

• New guys are doing their job, other than Ozuna, up up to now. But this lineup will not go wherever if everybody else does not maintain up their finish of the discount.

• Pirates get a runner into scoring place after Gonzales reaches and swipes second, however Burns strikes out Davis and Cruz to maintain them off the board.

• Horwitz has the Pirates’ first hit of the night time. A single to proper to guide off the fifth. First hit of his season, too.

• RUN: Suarez scores from first on an RBI double to proper by Benson. Reds, 2-0

• RUN: Stewart stroll is adopted by a single from Suarez. Steer drives within the sport’s first run with a sacrifice fly to proper discipline. Reds, 1-0

• De La Cruz is instantly wiped off the bases. He’s received elite pace and Davis throws him out attempting to steal. Perfectly executed there.

• Ashcraft cannot put De La Cruz away with two strikes and he singles into middle to guide off the fourth. A 2-2 heater down the center.

• Pirates get two baserunners aboard on walks to Lowe and O’Hearn within the fourth. But Triolo strikes out swinging to finish a reasonably uncompetitive at-bat and go away them stranded.

• A nine-pitch third for Ashcraft. Lineout, broken-bat groundout and a flyout to middle. All 9 of the outs he is recorded have are available in 5 pitches or fewer. He’s at 39 pitches by way of three innings.

• Burns has retired eight in a row after one other 1-2-3 inning. A variety of weak contact the primary time by way of the order. Only one baserunner with the Lowe first-inning stroll.

• Ashcraft has gone to the curveball 10 occasions — greater than some other pitch — by way of two innings. Seven swings, 5 whiffs. Finished each strikeouts with it.

• Another curve from Ashcraft to complete Stephenson. At 1-2-3 seconds.

• Four straight curveballs there from Ashcraft. Two out of the zone for balls, however then two whiffs, together with one for a strikeout of Benson. Two outs after a 4-3 groundout to retire Steer.

• Pirates set down so as within the second. Two weak groundouts and a strikeout of Horwitz, who was frozen on a 0-2 fastball at 99.

• Suarez is retired by Davis to finish the primary. An 18-pitch first for Ashcraft.

• De La Cruz takes off and Stewart singles up the center. De La Cruz does not take a look at Cruz’s arm. Runners on the corners with two outs.

• Ashcraft walks De La Cruz. Fifth pitch of the at-bat truly clipped the zone. Would have been strike three if challenged.

• Ozuna whiffs on two straight sliders to finish the highest of the primary.

• Pirates get their first baserunner on a Lowe stroll. Didn’t make it straightforward on Burns by simply swinging at something there. Good AB.

• First pitch: Pirates vs. Reds, 6:40 pm, Chase Burns to Oneil Cruz, 73 levels, Great American Ball Park

• Don Kelly‘s lineup for the guests:

1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Brandon Lowe, 2B
3. Bryan Reynolds, L.F.
4. Marcell Ozuna, DH
5. Ryan O’Hearn, RF
6. Jared Triolo, SS
7. Spencer Horwitz, 1B
8. Nick Gonzales, 3B
9. Henry Davis, C.

• Terry Francona’s lineup for the house group:

1. T.J. Friedl, C.F.
2. Matt McLain, 2B
3. Elly De La Cruz, SS
4. Sal Stewart, 1B
5. Eugenio Suarez, DH
6. Spencer Steer, L.F.
7. Will Benson, R.F.
8. Tyler Stephenson, C
9. Ke’Bryan Hayes, 3B