{"id":739421,"date":"2026-04-19T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:14:27","slug":"pirates-6-3-rays-apr-19-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739421\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates 6-3 Rays (Apr 19, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH — \u2014 Bryan Reynolds<\/a> drove in three runs, Mitch Keller<\/a> pitched seven strong innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> defeated the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> 6-3 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Reynolds\u2019 two-run single to left field capped a three-run fifth and put the Pirates ahead 4-2. The hit came after Nick Gonzales\u2019 tying single drove in Joey Bart<\/a>, who hit a leadoff double.<\/p>\n

Keller (2-1) allowed two runs \u2014 on Hunter Feduccia\u2019s single in the fifth \u2014 and five hits while striking out five. <\/p>\n

Reynolds also drove in the game\u2019s first run on a fielder\u2019s choice in the first that scored Jake Mangum<\/a>, who led off the inning with a double.<\/p>\n

Home runs by pinch-hitter Spencer Horwitz<\/a> in the sixth and Nick Yorke<\/a> in the eighth extended the Pirates\u2019 lead to 6-2.<\/p>\n

Shane McClanahan<\/a> (1-2) gave up four runs and eight hits in 4 1\/3 innings. He had five strikeouts and no walks.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> homered leading off the ninth for the Rays, connecting off Wilber Dotel, who was making his major league debut. Dotel retired the next three batters to end the game.<\/p>\n

Mangum, Gonzales, and Reynolds \u2014 the top three hitters in the lineup \u2014 each had two of the Pirates\u2019 12 hits.<\/p>\n

The Rays lost two of three in the series after entering on a six-game winning streak. The Pirates finished their homestand 4-3.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Rays: Open a three-game series against Cincinnati on Monday night. Tampa Bay has not announced its starting pitcher. LHP Rhett Lowder<\/a> (2-1, 3.52 ERA) takes the ball for the Reds.<\/p>\n

Pirates: Off on Monday before opening a three-game series on Tuesday at Texas, where they will see former teammate Andrew McCutchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH — \u2014 Bryan Reynolds drove in three runs, Mitch Keller pitched seven strong innings, and the Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":739422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-739421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116433444756596442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}