Pittsburgh 8, San Francisco 2
When: 7:05 PM ET, Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
78°
Umpires:
Home -
Wally Bell, 1B -
Marvin Hudson, 2B -
Tim McClelland, 3B -
Mike Muchlinski
Attendance:
30614
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Pirates 8, Giants 2: Gerrit Cole dazzled in his major-league debut, carrying a shutout into the seventh inning and driving in two runs as host Pittsburgh beat San Francisco.
Cole (1-0), the top overall pick in the 2011 draft, allowed two runs on seven hits with no walks and two strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings. He mixed a high-90s fastball with a solid breaking ball, and added a two-run single to right-center in his first major-league at-bat in the second inning.
San Francisco starter Tim Lincecum (4-6) allowed four runs (two earned) on seven hits in 4 2/3 innings. Pedro Alvarez went 3-for-3 with a two-run homer and Starling Marte added a solo shot for Pittsburgh, which has won 12 of its past 15 games at PNC Park.
Andrew McCutchen scored in the fifth when Hunter Pence played Garrett Jones’ single into a two-base error and Alvarez drove home Jones on an infield single. Marte’s homer with two outs in the sixth staked Pittsburgh to a 5-0 advantage.
San Francisco scored twice in the seventh on Tony Abreu’s pinch-hit double and Brett Pill’s groundout. But reliever Vin Mazzaro induced an inning-ending fielder’s choice from Buster Posey, and Alvarez’s blast to deep right-center capped a three-run bottom of the seventh and made it 8-2.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Cole, who went 5-3 with a 2.91 ERA at Triple-A Indianapolis, threw 59 of his 81 pitches for strikes. … Giants 2B Marco Scutaro left the game after being hit in the hand with a pitch in the seventh. ... San Francisco reliever George Kontos and manager Bruce Bochy were
ejected in the bottom of the eighth. Kontos, who had been warned by
home-plate umpire Wally Bell after nearly hitting Marte, plunked McCutchen two batters later.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Francisco |
|
Pittsburgh |
|
Tim Lincecum
|
Player |
Gerrit Cole
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
4.2 |
IP |
6.1 |
|
4 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
7 |
Hits |
7 |
|
3.86 |
ERA |
2.84 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Francisco
|
8 |
0 |
9 |
.235 |
14 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Pittsburgh
|
12 |
2 |
19 |
.353 |
20 |
8 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
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