Andrew McCutchen passes Roberto Clemente in Win | Marlins vs. Pirates Game Highlights (6/11/25)

The homestand finale the Pirates will hit the road and take on two of the best teams in baseball the Cubs and the Tigers coming up in an opportunity to make this not only a winning homestand but back to back series wins for the Pirates here with a win today. Bailey Falter is 14th start just under a three point five ERA nine and two thirds forty three strikeouts that nice 220 opponent average Xavier Edwards steps in pitch to the game with Hayes drawn in and third puts him out on one pitch. So Falter is seeing Augustine Ramirez now the two hitting D.H. The end of the bat to Reynolds in right three pitches and two outs. That's a great start. You're Roberto Hernandez the right fielder two for four on Monday didn't play last night. That is walloped on a line into left field that's down for a base hit and it's chasing Frazier towards the corner throw coming in towards second is not in time. You better keep him in the darn lineup every day. It's a double for Hernandez gets a fastball and he's absolutely killing the fastball. And that one was hit pretty hard. That'll bring Otto Lopez to the plate. He's riding a five game hitting streak right now called third strike at the bottom of the zone. Splinter no fastballs for Otto Cal on a one year three and a half million dollar deal with the Marlins. He makes his 13th start in Marlins uniform Cal three and six with a five six three ERA O'Neal Cruz leads off bottom of the first for the Pirates last night as Ethan to get back. He crushed his 13th home run of the season liner to well and over Lopez a base hit for Cruz going the other way to start. You know and these are the kind of swings that that you have to go to. I call it your B or C swing at times. O'Neal Cruz is going good. You see a lot a lot more of this Andrew McCutchen. Speaking of Red Hot Runner goes fly ball in the air left center field. Dave Meyers making his 28th start of the season in center today puts the squeeze on out number one here with the bottom of the first that'll bring the switch hitting right field. There were the veteran Brian Reynolds to the plate for Pittsburgh's Reynolds sprays one into left field that is peeling a little bit on Sanoha but he makes the catch and fires it back into the infield is out number two. And now Horwitz three to pitch that one cut on and missed. He was late on a ninety five mile an hour fastball from Cal Quattro one of his hardest of the year and a high heat blown by Horwitz to strain a man at second in the bottom of the second inning. Nick Gonzalez steps in that right hand batter's box to pitch line drive base hit center field for Nicky G. Second time the pirates get their leadoff man on Frazier who has four hits in the series. Shot up the middle Lopez has got it steps on the bag throw to first in time in a double play turn by the Marlins one hopped its way to Otto. He picked it up on a short hop. He ran it to the second base bag himself to get the lead man Gonzalez and then he fired the first to get Frazier in plenty of time. That's a six to three double play ball or two way two outs. Nothing nothing. Bottom of the second. Here's Henry Davis going the opposite way on that slider and a two hour single for Henry Davis. Henry Davis just continuing to look more and more comfortable every day. He's getting it back. Nice work Davis. Here's Brian Hayes. Ball in the air to shallow right field that's going to get down for a base hit. It's a lob wedge in the shallow right puts runners at first and third. That was nice. Two outs he had Davis just taken off at contact. He actually got in a position where he's rounding thirds in case there was a little mess up out there in the outfield. Isaiah Connor Vallejo Hayes will run trying to induce the throw he does and that yields a run for the pirates work to perfection. We'll take a freebie. There's no doubt about that. Put some pressure on the defense in some instances you see this happen. You see Brian Hayes stop. He did that on purpose to see if he could elicit a bad throw or try to get a rundown and score that runner Henry Davis and third. He gets one of those and that's what we're calling Donny ball. Oh man for the fourth here in Pittsburgh the pirates lead the Marlins one nothing. There's one down here's Adam Frazier swing and a miss and a cutter up in a way strike three that is four strikeouts for Cuadro two down in the fourth. Henry Davis can do something big here. Second inning he's single to right center one to coming. Called strike three with a splitter that catches the bottom of the zone and Cuadro works a one two three four. He's got five punch outs fifth inning Connor Norby leads off against Bailey Falter pirates lead at one nothing for four innings is like eight holes. The way he's pitching right now he's birdied the first eight Norby down on strikes. Beautiful slider right there. He's in complete control right now. Joe I mean look where this starts. Basically on the outer edge to the righty and ends up on the inner half or even off the plate. Truthfully Dane Myers and three to. Oh look what I found line right back to Falter ball stuck in his glove. Yeah I would say the scouting reported did not do that much good today. I don't think he moved his glove at all. Now it's Nick Fortes. It's a ground ball hit through the left side to base it for Nick. He's two for two today to knock that brings up Javier Sanoja sizable lead at first and Sanoja Yates that fair over the bag at third rolling down the left field line. It hits that jut out and Fortes will arrive safely at third a double for Javier Sanoja who's been a trouble for Bailey Falter two outs. He has to get one here third time up for Xavier Edwards and his three one pitch taking the inside ball for bases loaded for Augustine. So Falter who was it just 38 pitches through the first four innings a twenty three pitch inning so far Augustine Ramirez with the bases loaded and a line drive to right field and right at Reynolds who makes the catch side relief for Falter bottom half of the fifth inning for the Pirates one nothing Bucs and that is ball for a fastball away. It's first and second opportunity for the Pirates to add to a lead here two on four McCutchen pitch drive to left center field. So no one going back to the track looking up and it is gone. And there it is. Andrew McCutchen in third place all by himself only Sturgill and Kiner ahead of Andrew McCutchen on the all time Pirates home run list to forty one and that was a big one. It is for nothing in the fifth Andrew McCutchen and this crowd will no doubt want to ask him to come back out as he goes down the dugout steps. They're aware of it. Historical moment at PNC Park Andrew McCutchen asking for a curtain call. We're in the top of the sixth inning it's for nothing Pirates part of the order for the Marlins again Bailey Falter lefty Roberto Hernandez right hand batter Roberto Hernandez sends one high and deep to center field Cruz going back warning track wall looking up gone Roberto Hernandez the only Marlin that's been able to crack Bailey Falter today it's his second extra base hit. It's his first major league home run and it comes here in the top of the sixth inning. Well he hit it in the perfect spot to be able to get his first home run ball right in that Marlin bullpen. And just like McCutchen got a hanging splitter so did Hernandez. How about this road trip that he has had. Now it's Braxton Ashcraft the rookie righty. The Marlins have managed first and third trailing by three with one away here in the sixth Sanchez is the potential tying run. Boxing ball to first off the middle of Horowitz he recovers only plays to first for the out Wagamans scores from third Norby to second and the Marlins have plated their second run of the inning they're down four to two now the top of the six from the bottom of the eighth inning as Adam Frazier comes to the plate and the bases loaded with one out in the air the other way and coming over to make the catch the left fielder Sanchez tagging and scoring is Reynolds ball cut off sack fly for Frazier. Pirates take a five to lead in the eighth. Nice job going the other way. You know Frazier does that well anyway. Pirates scoring easily there pirates are leading five to ninth inning. David Bednar comes on to try and get the save for Bailey Falter two down in the nine years Xavier Edwards to pitch swing and a miss. He struck him out with ninety eight heat and heat might define the pirates heating up and one will remember for a long time with Andrew McCutchen hitting the three run home run.