Braves vs. Pirates Game Highlights (5/24/24) | MLB Highlights

Bailey Falter has really kept getting better and better as a season has gone along that last start in Chicago. Excellent not given up hardly any hits. Two or three batting average against here's the reigning MVP Acuna on the first pitch. He'll be thrown out by plenty. One pitch one out for Falter Ozzie Albies digging in to pop up center field Michael Taylor back pedals casually makes the catch over that left shoulder and the second out of the fly out to center the guy leading the charge is Marcel Osuna who is leading the league in home runs and RBI is lobbed out to center again carrying a bit although not a lot of breeze tonight. It's just how Osuna hits Ray Kerr on the man he's a reliever so it'll be his first big league start tonight. Andrew McCutcheon 13 career leadoff home run as a pirate yesterday down the line and this one has a chance and it's a fair ball into the corner Duvall retrieves it quickly to hold McCutcheon to a long single. Now here's Brian Reynolds Duvall charging hard and left and he takes this right off the grass for the first out in the bottom of the first and belting a ball into left field. This will be extra basis for Connor Joe McCutcheon will be held at third business now one out down to two and now he's headed back to the dugout. That is a big strikeout for Kerr. Now Nick Gonzalez is your guy. Be aware hit hard and that's Gaffer. That's away from Harris. That still scores to Nick Gonzalez the RBI machine bucks up to nothing. That's a lot of it now two more runs batted in for Nick Gonzalez Jerry Triolo with an early lead against Atlanta and Kerr gets rid of Triolo on three pitches pirates have a two nothing lead now to the second inning at PNC Park left handed hitting first baseman Matt Olsen steps in there against the Southpaw Bailey Falter swing and a miss Bailey Falter gets him with a breaking ball line drive right at the first baseman Connor Joe who's playing way off the first base back to Oliver Harris another tidy inning for Bailey Falter against one of the best lineups in baseball to nothing pirates into the bottom of the second. Here's Taylor on the ground through Michael Taylor with a two out single ground ball toward the middle. Ozzie what a play. Oh that's spectacular. Another splendid play up the middle this time by Ozzie Albies. And that's a big one for Ray Kerr. Pirates have a two nothing lead now head to the bottom of the third inning. Connor Joe step in here and he hits it out to left again and deep Duvall can't get there another double for Connor Joe and that ball is going to get down base hit for Edward Oliva Harris and a run batted in bucks up three to nothing and that outer edge and missed and so Cruz will work a walk past the baton to Grondahl and that right side and Grondahl gets it down base hit. That's going to score two cruises in two out two run double Yosemite Grondahl five nothing pirates into the top of the fourth inning Braves are looking for their first base hit see if they can start to get to falter here. That will help. There's the Braves first base runner of the night Ronald Acuna with a single three Oh swinging. It's going to be out two hits in the inning for Atlanta but nothing across and now to the fifth inning here at PNC Park Bailey Falter faces Travis Darnell leading five to nothing to right field and that will fall in front of Oliva Harris. So Travis Darnell who had a hard line out in the second inning gets a single here to start to fifth down the left field line and that ball is going to drop in fair. Travis Darnell makes a big turn at second but holds up and the Braves have something going here. Two men on for the first time tonight a little pop Connor Joe. Can he get over there. Yes another foul pop two outs shattered bat. Cruz good play. You go nice job that gets a start. Bailey Falter has gone five shutout innings moving on to the bottom of the fifth. Rick Thursday is done after four innings on to relieve him. Darius Fines on for the third time this season and he's not going to get a walk here with one out. Now Jared Trejo and Trejo lets this one go toward the notch. It's deep. See you later. Jared Trejo. Riffle since seven to nothing. Clear big tree. It's his third to the big part of the yard. Pirates open up a seven nothing lead in the fifth. What a night for the pirates park yard. It is a seven nothing pirates advantage. Bailey Falter who's a scoreless inning streak has reached 17 and two thirds routine ground ball. And Acuna thrown out to start the sixth Bailey Falter for the pirates with a one to swing and a miss he struck him out. One two three for the lefty Bailey Falter five and a half played pirates seven Braves nothing Darius Fines on the mound to face the pirates in the bottom of the sixth inning. That's past short. That's going to be two from a catch in. On a close play. Nimbly getting in runners at first and second two down for Edward Olivares that one's falling fast. They said catches in Joe scrambles to third Olivares is safe. Another RBI to nothing buckles to right hit well. Yeah that's going to bring in two more. The Viper comes through four RBI tonight for Nick Gonzalez ten nothing pirates Bailey Falter takes the hill strike three call to ask for Bailey Falter in the seventh he struck him out Bailey Falter seven scoreless innings a couple of strikeouts ten nothing pirates into the bottom of the seventh those end up Cruz Randall and Taylor Cruz with a liner that's down and past Harris watch O'Neill Cruz go well he'll pull up at second. I thought he was going to go for three but it's backed up nicely maybe give you a good feeling off Garcia you won't get anybody out. I'll be an error in the air to right. I'll get a run home. Williams can try to score in the pirates have an eleven nothing lead over the Atlanta Braves. Well this is quite a game tonight for the pirates a combination of the great start from Bailey Falter who's blanking the Braves through seven and this pirates offense eleven runs on 13 hits. This one is going up the middle. Williams just came in at short but no way he was going to get to that two hits tonight for Michael Harris. Well either way he's going to reach here as a three to sales high put runners at first and second Ronald Acuna is certainly going to come to the plate and face Falter Ronald sends this to right center well struck at the wall and it is gone able to get it out of here to right center field and the Braves are finally on the board on a three run homer by Ronald Acuna Junior. Now one hundred and seventy two games without being shut out as Ronald Acuna Junior it's a three run homer his fourth of the season a robust round of applause for Bailey Falter what a night great great ballgame excellent job Luis Ortiz on the mound payoff pitch for the right hander is high. So mentioned the walk woes and he walks Ozzie here to Taylor might still get it out a forceful Ozuna has taken off for second on the three to pitch and it misses. So now you've got two on here with two out Travis Skyes one towards deep right field sprinting back Olavera's it's over his head and to the base of the right field wall Ozuna and Olson will both score. It's a two RBI double and it's now an eleven five ballgame into the top of the ninth inning final hope for the Braves trailing eleven five it'll be seventy nine coming up in the year to Taylor. He's got it and Ray's the jolly Roger as the pirates goes to the Buccos on this Friday night.