Pittsburgh 6, San Francisco 5
When: 7:05 PM ET, Saturday, May 12, 2018
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
76°
Umpires:
Home -
Tom Hallion, 1B -
Phil Cuzzi, 2B -
Adam Hamari, 3B -
Chris Segal
Attendance:
27502
By Field Level Media
Pittsburgh's Jordy Mercer got hit by a Tony Watson pitch with the based loaded in the eighth inning Saturday to give the Pirates their fifth straight win, 6-5 over the visiting San Francisco Giants.
It was 5-5 when Josh Bell opened the eighth with a double and moved to third on Corey Dickerson's groundout. Watson intentionally walked Francisco Cervelli, and pinch hitter David Freese loaded the bases with an infield single.
Watson (1-2) then hit Mercer in the left leg to bring home Bell.
San Francisco has lost a season-worst six straight.
Pirates starter Chad Kuhl gave up three runs and six hits in six innings, with six strikeouts and four walks. Closer Felipe Vazquez (2-0) got the final five outs.
San Francisco starter Jeff Samardzija had his longest outing of the season, allowing five runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings, with five strikeouts and two walks.
After the start of the game was delayed about 90 minutes by rain, the Pirates took a 2-0 lead in the first on Bell's sacrifice fly and Corey Dickerson's RBI single.
San Francisco tied it in the second. Evan Longoria hit a first-pitch home run, his eighth, to left-center to make it 2-1. One out later, Alen Hanson hit his fourth homer, a line drive to right, to make it 2-2.
The Giants took their first lead of the series in the third when Andrew McCutchen led off by stretching a single into a double and later scored on Brandon Crawford's sacrifice fly, making it 3-2.
Gregory Polanco planted a ball just over the wall in right-center, his eighth homer, with one out in the third for a 3-3 tie.
Cervelli hit a two-out, two-run homer in the sixth after Bell reached on a base hit for a 5-3 Pirates lead.
In the seventh, McCutchen hit a one-out double and scored on Brandon Belt's two-out single to pull the Giants to within 5-4.
In the eighth, Austin Jackson tied it 5-5 with a double off the wall in left, driving in Hanson, who had a one-out single. Hanson left the game after scoring because of an unspecified injury he apparently suffered running the bases.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Francisco |
|
Pittsburgh |
|
Jeff Samardzija
|
Player |
Chad Kuhl
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
5.2 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
|
6 |
Hits |
6 |
|
7.94 |
ERA |
4.50 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Francisco
|
10 |
2 |
20 |
.286 |
16 |
8 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| Pittsburgh
|
8 |
2 |
15 |
.276 |
15 |
9 |
6 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
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