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Palacios delivers a clutch double in the 9th as the Pirates rally past the Dodgers 9-7
Pinch-hitter Josh Palacios came through with a tiebreaking two-run double in a three-run ninth inning that rallied the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 9-7 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night to snap a three-game skid.
Dodgers reliever Evan Phillips struck out Carlos Santana, then issued consecutive walks to Jack Suwinski and Nick Gonzales. Suwinski scored on Jared Triolo’s single that tied it at 7.
Palacios batted for Rodolfo Castro and doubled into left field, scoring Gonzales and Triolo for a 9-7 lead.
The Pirates bounced back after pinch-hitter Jonny Deluca’s solo homer in the eighth gave the Dodgers a 7-6 lead.
David Bednar (3-0) got five outs for the win after being added to the NL All-Star roster earlier in the day as an injury replacement.
James Outman slugged a pair of two-run homers, both times giving Los Angeles the lead, and Mookie Betts added his 23rd homer for the Dodgers. Jason Heyward went 2 for 3 and scored twice.
Deluca batted for Heyward and went deep to left field off Angel Perdomo for his first major league homer. The 24-year-old outfielder from Thousand Oaks in Ventura County took a curtain call in front of 51,487 cheering fans.
The Pirates tied the game at 6 in the sixth. Henry Davis singled to left off Gavin Stone, and David Peralta’s throw kicked off the glove of catcher Will Smith as Austin Hedges made a headfirst slide home. The throw put runners at second and third before Stone walked Santana to load the bases.
Suwinski took a called third strike. Gonzales grounded into a fielder’s choice to shortstop and Santana was out at second to end the inning.
Suwinski went deep for the Pirates leading off the fourth — his 442-shot was the longest of the game — and Hedges’ bases-loaded sacrifice fly tied it at 4. Bryan Reynolds’ RBI single off Caleb Ferguson put the Pirates ahead 5-4.
The Dodgers rallied to take a 6-5 lead in the bottom of the inning on Outman’s 407-foot shot that scored Heyward, who singled leading off against starter Luis Ortiz.
Outman’s first homer in the second traveled 436 feet to right-center and scored Heyman, who singled. Two batters later, Betts homered for a 4-1 lead.
Will Smith’s sacrifice fly in the first scored Betts and left the Dodgers trailing 2-1.
Dodgers rookie Emmet Sheehan had a shaky 37-pitch first. After he loaded the bases on three consecutive two-out walks, Gonzales hit a ground-rule double to left, scoring Davis and Santana for a 2-0 lead.
OUT FOR THE SEASON
RHP Dustin May will undergo season-ending elbow surgery on July 18, the latest blow to a Dodgers rotation that has been hit hard by injuries.
The 25-year-old right-hander will have his right flexor tendon repaired. May had been rehabbing a flexor pronator strain after having a platelet-rich plasma injection and going on the 60-day injured list May 23.
May was 4-1 with a 2.63 ERA and 34 strikeouts in nine starts this season. He had Tommy John surgery in 2021.
ALL-STAR NOD
Bednar is headed to the All-Star Game as the replacement for injured Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw.
It will be the second straight All-Star appearance for Bednar, who has a 1.36 ERA and 16 saves. He’ll join teammate Mitch Keller at the game in Seattle, where Pirates manager Derek Shelton will be part of the NL coaching staff.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: Kershaw (left shoulder) will throw a bullpen on Friday or Saturday. … RHP Noah Syndergaard (finger) will throw a three-inning simulated game on Thursday. A rehab assignment is in his future. “The stuff has got to improve,” manager Dave Roberts said. … INF-OF Chris Taylor (knee) is in Arizona. … RHP Shelby Miller (neck) is not close to returning after being shut down two weeks ago.
UP NEXT
Pirates: RHP Osvaldo Bido (0-1, 4.74 ERA) makes his fifth career start Wednesday. He’s received zero runs of support when he’s been in the game in his last three starts.
Dodgers: RHP Bobby Miller (4-1, 4.23) faces the Pirates for the first time.
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Man charged with raping 93-year-old Pittsburgh woman deemed legally competent for hearing
A Pittsburgh man accused of raping a 93-year-old woman last year plans to plead not guilty.
Ronny Hough’s hearing Tuesday was postponed. His attorney says they got the results of his mental evaluation too late to review.
Hough was deemed legally competent for a hearing.
Hough is accused of following the elderly woman home after she saw a play in Downtown Pittsburgh. Police say he followed her onto a PRT bus then broke into her Troy Hill home and beat and raped her.
Hough is a registered sex offender from another incident. Six years ago, he assaulted a child under the age of 13.
He’ll be back in court at the end of January.
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Pittsburgh Steelers likely to lose star running back to new team
The Pittsburgh Steelers seem likely to let running back Najee Harris walk this offseason, according to Steelers insider Gerry Dulac. Harris had his fifth-year option declined in May, and the team seems set to move on and make Jaylen Warren the starter. With that in mind, the team will have to explore other options to fill out the depth chart behind him, and with a deep running back class, that could be the move.
Harris, on the other hand, has not given his NFL future much thought, but it does not seem likely he will be back in Pittsburgh.
“I haven’t given that much thought at all,” Harris said
Harris had just six carries for 17 yards on Saturday. With the Steelers, he has put up four straight 1000-yard seasons since he was drafted out of Alabama. He is the only player to do that during the span.
Harris played every single game over those four years, becoming a bastion of health and consistency for the Steelers even through some muddy years they faced. However, his efficiency never followed, but a lot of that was due to scheme and poor offensive line play that never got better over the tenure.
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