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Pirates Notes: Friday Doubleheader Against the Blue Jays

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The Pittsburgh Pirates won 5-4 in Bradenton over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday afternoon. Cole Tucker was the hero of the game, hitting a home run in the seventh inning that gave the Pirates a 4-3 lead at the time. He then followed that up with a walk-off homer in the ninth. The Pirates scored all of their runs on solo homers. Patrick Kivlehan, Adam Frazier and Erik Gonzalez each added a home run.

On the pitching side, Jordan Lyles allowed two runs (one earned) over four innings, giving up three hits, one walk and picking up three strikeouts. Francisco Liriano tossed two shutout innings on no hits, one walk and two strikeouts. Geoff Hartlieb and Nick Burdi each allowed one run in their only inning, though both of them struck out three batters. Brandon Waddell pitched a scoreless ninth for the win.

Here are the homers from Tucker:

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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