Arizona 9, Pittsburgh 3
When: 7:05 PM ET, Thursday, June 21, 2018
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
76°
Umpires:
Home -
Stu Scheurwater, 1B -
Eric Cooper, 2B -
Gary Cederstrom, 3B -
Cory Blaser
Attendance:
20554
By Field Level Media
Jon Jay drove in two runs and scored twice as the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks roughed up Pittsburgh Pirates starter Chad Kuhl for an early eight-run lead Thursday en route to a 9-3 win.
Jay, a Pirates killer who is hitting .333 against them in his career, was 2-for-4 with two doubles. Ketel Marte and Alex Avila homered for Arizona, which has won 10 of 13, including three of four against the Pirates.
Rookie Austin Meadows went 3-for-4 and scored a run for Pittsburgh, which has lost three of four.
Diamondbacks starter Zack Godley (8-5) gave up three runs, two of them earned, and four hits in six innings. He had five strikeouts and three walks. Fernando Salas pitched a scoreless seventh, Jorge De La Rosa 1 2/3 shutout innings, and Jake Barrett got the final out.
Kuhl (5-5) allowed eight runs and eight hits, including two homers, in two-plus innings, with two strikeouts and one walk.
Jay led off the first with a double that bounced into the stands in left, advanced on Paul Goldschmidt's walk and David Peralta's fielder's choice, and scored on Daniel Descalso's sacrifice fly. Ketel Marte followed with a two-run shot, his sixth homer, for a 3-0 lead.
In the second, Nick Ahmed doubled to left and went to third on Jarrod Dyson's single. After Godley bunted Dyson to second, Jay smacked a two-run double to make it 5-0. Goldschmidt then drove in Jay with base hit for a 6-0 Arizona lead.
Ketel Marte singled in the third ahead of Avila's third homer to make it 8-0. That broke an 0-for-18 funk by Avila and chased Kuhl.
Francisco Cervelli hit a one-out RBI single in the fourth for the Pirates' first run. Pittsburgh made it 8-3 with two more runs in the sixth, on Starling Marte's RBI double -- his 800th career hit and 300th career RBI -- and Colin Moran's sacrifice fly.
Avila hit an RBI double in the ninth for the Diamondbacks' ninth run.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Arizona |
|
Pittsburgh |
|
Zack Godley
|
Player |
Chad Kuhl
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
6.0 |
IP |
2.0 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
4 |
Hits |
8 |
|
3.00 |
ERA |
36.00 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Arizona
|
10 |
2 |
20 |
.278 |
17 |
4 |
9 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| Pittsburgh
|
8 |
0 |
9 |
.250 |
14 |
6 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
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