Pittsburgh Pirates’ Bae Ji-hwan recorded his first long hit this season.
Bae had one hit, one run and one walk from three times at bat at a home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks held at PNC Park on Saturday (Korea time). However, Pittsburgh suffered a come-from-behind loss of five to six.
Starting at center field No. 7, Bae walked in the bottom of the second inning for a 1-0 lead. Bae took the batter’s box after leadoff hitter Joey Bart went out to pitch, and picked up a 94.1 mile out fastball by Arizona starter Line Nelson from the full count.
Bae Ji-hwan ran to third base when Yasmani Grandal hit a superior double with one out and runners on the first and second bases, and he homered with Grandal on a triple that flowed out of the right fence of Isaiah Kiner-Falefa, widening the gap to 4-0.
At his second at-bat in the third inning, Bae struck out swinging with runners on the first base after two outs. He swung his bat on Nelson’s high 95.7-mile fastball at two strikes.
He hit a double when his team was leading 4-2 with one out and one out in the sixth inning. At One Strike, he hit an 83.7 mile sweeper from rival Paul Sewald, and hit a big hit that flew deep into the right-center field and hit the fence.
Bae Ji-hwan, who had only six single hits in 14 games until the previous day, recorded a flying angle of 21 degrees, a batting speed of 103.6 miles, and a flying distance of 399 feet (121.6 meters). If he had flown two meters more, he could have made a home run. However, he could not advance further as Triolo hit a straight hit to center field and Grandal hit a ground ball to second base.
In the eighth inning when his team came from behind to lose 4-5, Bae was out after hitting a fly ball to the center field with two strikeouts. Bae had a batting average of 0.194 (7 hits in 36 times at bat), three RBIs, eight runs scored, three steals, a on-base percentage of 0.268, a slugging percentage of 0.222, and an OPS of 0.490.
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Paul Skins struggled a bit during five ⅓ innings, giving up five hits and three walks and allowing two runs. He struck out four. Skins, who was out without a loss, posted an ERA of 1.99. His ball speed was 99.8 miles and an average of 98.0 miles. 스포츠토토
Arizona trailed 0-4 in the top of the sixth inning when lead Corbin Carroll homered with Ketel Marte’s infield grounder after a triple to the right, followed by Jake McCarthy’s critical hit with one out and runners on first and second.
In the seventh inning, Jock Pederson exploded a three-run home run in the left-center with two outs and runners on the first and second bases, turning the tide to 5-4, and Marte hit a solo shot over the middle wall in the ninth inning to seal the victory. Pittsburgh followed one point with Brian Reynolds’ timely hit in the bottom of the ninth inning, but it fell to its knees as the follow-up timely hit did not explode with one out and runners on the first and third bases.
Pittsburgh, which finished its three consecutive games against Arizona with one win and two losses, maintained its third place in the National League Central and sixth place in the wild card with 56 wins and 55 losses.
