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Pittsburgh Pirates @ St. Louis Cardinals

2026-08-30 · Day game · Busch Stadium III · Att: 23459 · 92°F, Sunny · Wind 9 mph, Out To LF · 2:53

Pittsburgh Pirates defeated St. Louis Cardinals 5–4. Pittsburgh Pirates opened the scoring in the 2nd — Esmerlyn Valdez homers (16) on a fly ball to right field. Brandon Lowe scores. The game's biggest swing came in the 7th: Iván Herrera doubles (24) on a fly ball to left fielder Bryan Reynolds. Thomas Saggese scores — worth 18% in win probability.

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Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
PIT	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	5	8
SLN	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	4	9	1

Pittsburgh Pirates — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Jared Triolo SS	4	1	1	1	1	2
Oneil Cruz DH	4	2	1	0	1	1
Bryan Reynolds LF	5	0	2	0	0	2
Rafael Flores Jr. C	4	0	0	0	1	2
Brandon Lowe 2B	4	1	2	1	0	1
Esmerlyn Valdez RF	4	1	1	2	0	1
Billy Cook CF	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jake Mangum RF	4	0	1	0	0	2
Spencer Horwitz 1B	3	0	0	0	1	1
Nick Yorke 3B	4	0	0	0	0	3

St. Louis Cardinals — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Bryan Torres LF	2	1	2	1	1	0
Joshua Báez PH	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ivan Herrera C	5	0	2	2	0	0
Alec Burleson 1B	4	0	1	1	1	0
Jordan Walker RF	4	0	0	0	0	2
Nolan Gorman DH	4	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Fermin 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1
Nathan Church CF	4	0	0	0	0	1
Ramon Urias 3B	3	1	0	0	1	2
Thomas Saggese SS	4	2	3	0	0	0