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Marcus Rashford at Manchester United. What’s going on?

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It was a conversation with Ruben Amorim at the start of December that goes some way to explaining why Marcus Rashford has been absent from the Manchester United side for the past five matches.

United had just beaten Everton 4-0, with Rashford scoring two of the goals in a vibrant display on Sunday, December 1. But after that game, Amorim heard the forward had been out in Manchester on the Friday night, November 29, less than 48 hours before Everton’s visit to Old Trafford.

The United head coach does not want his players in bars so close to games and asked Rashford about his movements. The England international assured Amorim he had been misinformed about a late night.

Three days later, however, Rashford was left out of the starting line-up for the trip to Arsenal. While rotation was at play, those questions over his social life were also a factor in Amorim’s decision.

Since then, Rashford’s only start has come at Viktoria Plzen in the Europa League, a 2-1 win for United on December 12. After that, he was left out of four successive matchday squads.

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The 27-year-old did return to the bench for the visit of Newcastle on December 30, a match for which team-mates Bruno Fernandes and Manuel Ugarte were suspended. “We have a lot of players outside,” Amorim said. “Every week I choose my players, he was there to be chosen, and this time he is here.”

That emphasis on “this time” implied there was no guarantee Rashford would be included “next time”, and Amorim declined to introduce him despite United trailing Newcastle 2-0 from the 19th minute, in what could be interpreted as a bigger statement than leaving him out entirely.

Amorim said: “I’m not making a point. I just want to win the game.”


Rashford reacts after United’s 2-0 defeat by Newcastle last Monday (Carl Recine/Getty Images)

That Amorim appeared to believe United had a better chance of staging a comeback victory with Rashford in a seat in the dugout rather than on the pitch speaks to the wider issues at play.

On Friday, Amorim confirmed Rashford had not trained this week due to illness and would likely be missing from the trip to Liverpool tomorrow. The striker’s future has now become one of the biggest issues confronting United in this transfer window.

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“It depends more on him than me,” the head coach told Sky Sports on Friday in regards to Rashford. “He has to want it really, really bad. He’s here. He’s ready to play if I decide.”

The Athletic has spoken to multiple sources with knowledge of Rashford’s situation, who did so anonymously to protect relationships, to understand how a player with the best scoring record in United’s squad, a much-praised and decorated individual owing to his record of charity work, who earns one of the top salaries on a basic £325,000 per week when the club are in the Champions League, can be left out during a crucial period of the season.

It is a complicated situation, but one thing seems clear: Rashford’s prospects of an imminent return to favour under Amorim look bleak.


Since their talk after the Everton game, Amorim has given Rashford 118 minutes of football out of a possible 720.

He played the final half-hour both at Arsenal and in the following match at home to Nottingham Forest, then started against Viktoria Plzen, although Amorim substituted him on 56 minutes after a poor performance.

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Two days later, on Saturday, December 14, in the final training session before facing Manchester City the following afternoon, Rashford put in a lacklustre display at United’s Carrington base, according to multiple sources, some of whom said he appeared fatigued.

Claims circulated Rashford had gone out the night before — on the Friday, 48 hours before the game with accounts reaching people at United. This, however, is strenuously denied by people close to the player. Rashford is also known to feel he does not behave differently from other Premier League footballers but faces much more scrutiny over his social life.

Amorim makes his decisions based on what he sees with his own eyes, in complete consideration of all aspects, and when United’s line-up and squad for the derby at the Etihad Stadium was posted in the team WhatsApp group that Saturday evening, it was clear to the players that their new head coach had taken strong action in a bid to jolt Rashford.


Rashford prepares to come on against Bodo/Glimt on November 28 (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Amorim’s treatment of Rashford is aligned with those above him at United, namely INEOS director of sport Sir Dave Brailsford, chief executive Omar Berrada and technical director Jason Wilcox.

In the aftermath of United’s 2-1 win in the Manchester derby, Amorim indicated he had held talks with executives on how to handle Rashford. “For so long, for example with Rash, you try a thing, it doesn’t work,” he said. “Let’s continue to do the same thing? Or something different?”

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Perhaps prime in his mind and theirs was the Belfast episode from last January, when Rashford went partying for two evenings in a row, a Wednesday and a Thursday, and was pictured entering a nightclub hours before being due to attend the Friday’s training at Carrington. He reported ill for that session, and initially told United he had only gone out on the Wednesday.

Rashford’s offer to play in that Sunday’s FA Cup tie away to Newport County was turned down by Erik ten Hag, the manager at the time, with United subsequently saying the forward had “taken responsibility for his actions” and the matter had been dealt with internally. Ten Hag restored Rashford to the starting line-up at Wolves in the league four days later, and he scored in a 4-3 win.

Amorim, though, is opting for a harder approach now.

How to best tap into Rashford’s mindset has been a topic of conversation at United for years and an incident during a session a short time before he went to Belfast provided a trigger for renewed internal discussion.

Steve McClaren, one of Ten Hag’s assistants at the time, was overseeing a small-sided tournament among United’s squad at Carrington. Rashford’s team made the final, which was close in score. As the game went on, McClaren, in his jocular manner, said he believed the contest was Rashford’s to win. In response, the player questioned why additional pressure was being put on him.

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Sources say McClaren recognised in that exchange how Rashford required extra attention and, with Ten Hag already across the matter, he shared his thoughts with Brailsford.

The day after the Newport game, a Monday, Brailsford addressed United’s squad for the first time to outline the INEOS strategy, particularly in terms of raising standards across the club. Brailsford’s talk was in the diary rather than a reaction to Rashford’s indiscipline in Belfast, but it seemed to strike a chord with the player. He requested a one-on-one meeting with Brailsford and the pair spoke for 90 minutes.


Locally-born academy graduate Rashford has shouldered much of the focus and expectation at United for several seasons, under a variety of managers, and trying to fulfil instructions for those different approaches would be a challenge for any player. Including caretaker spells, he has played for eight managers/head coaches since his senior debut as an 18-year-old in February 2016. Conversely, he too has proved something of a conundrum for those in charge.

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Ralf Rangnick felt Rashford trained brilliantly but was unable to replicate that level in matches. It perplexed Rangnick, who wondered what might be going on in the player’s life to cause the disconnect between ability and output.

The only clarity came on Rashford’s preference to play on the left. Rangnick needed him to occasionally operate on the right, once Mason Greenwood was no longer available, and explained he could drift inside from there to good effect. But Rashford told him he wished to start on the opposite flank, where he has done the best work in his career.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had wrestled with the same dilemma after the summer 2021 signing of Jadon Sancho, who also liked the left more than the right. In Solskjaer’s last game in charge, the 4-1 loss at Watford that November, Rashford was one of two half-time substitutes, with Scott McTominay the other player going off.

Ten Hag felt he had a good relationship with Rashford, working together in his career-best season of 30 goals in 2022-23, although things soured by the end, with a difference of opinion over the coaching approach. Rashford’s final goal for Ten Hag came in a Europa League game at Porto in early October, where he appeared at his most dangerous in an attacking sense. But the manager took him off at the break due to defensive lapses.


Rashford and Ten Hag at Aston Villa  in October (James Gill/Danehouse/Getty Images)

Last summer, new United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe wanted to get Rashford firing. His salary, which runs until 2028, places him among the highest earners, and Ratcliffe wants value for money. But little appears to have changed in the past six months and so United have changed tack, endorsing Amorim’s decision to leave Rashford out.

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With the winter transfer window now open, talks are expected to take place about a potential exit. Rashford has said he is now ready for a “new challenge”, although this came in response to stories that he was available for sale and it could be argued was an acceptance by him that United may have decided his future lies elsewhere. “When I leave, it’s going to be ‘no hard feelings’. You’re not going to have any negative comments from me about Manchester United,” he added in the same interview, posted on X on December 17.

Finding a club willing to match his current wages and part with a transfer fee appears implausible, unless he moves to Saudi Arabia’s Pro League. Such a proposition is not thought to appeal to Rashford at this stage of his career, which is looked after by his brothers and representatives Dwaine Maynard and Dane Rashford. He also has assistance from a personal PR assistant. On New Year’s Day, Rashford posted on Instagram to deny a story linking the agency Stellar with facilitating a potential transfer.

There was further intrigue at Companies House, the UK’s register of companies, where Rashford’s MUCS Investments Limited was issued with a striking-off notice for being two months late to file accounts for 2023-24. The notice states that if the company is dissolved, all properties and rights held are deemed to be bona vacantia and will belong to the Crown. Typically, the action of issuing the notice results in the accounts being filed. Sources close to Rashford say the company is dormant and his accountants are in the process of closing it as he was not using it.

Rashford’s view on possibly leaving United comes after two of his best friends in the dressing room departed during the summer, as Sancho and Aaron Wan-Bissaka signed for Chelsea and West Ham United respectively. He is close with Tyrell Malacia, but has tested the patience of other team-mates at times.

The sale of an academy-produced player would especially aid United’s profitability and sustainability (PSR) calculations and Amorim is on record as saying he can only make January additions to the squad with any money that comes into the club.

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Amorim has said he wants to see a change in Rashford, but the forward is waiting for his return to the team, which has now stretched to five games.

Sources report his training levels have been mixed, with some good days and occasional bouts of illness. He was unwell and off work on the Monday after the derby, before attending Button Lane, the primary school he went to, to give out gifts to children and speak in an interview about his position at United. Rashford has also been absent from training for the past two days, which United say was sanctioned owing to illness.

There was a time when Rashford would have been a certainty to start against Liverpool, given he enjoyed some of his best games up against Trent Alexander-Arnold, and he remains one of United’s most potent attackers, even if that is not saying a great deal this season. He has seven goals and three assists, behind only Fernandes (16 goal contributions), Alejandro Garnacho and Amad (both 12).


(Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

His running statistics are slightly up on his career norms. Rashford is covering 10.2km on average per 90 minutes in the 2024-25 Premier League, compared to 9.97km and 9.57km in the previous two seasons, according to Opta. His top speed of 35.35km/h is similar to his past best, while he is making 21.33 sprints per 90, compared to 19.28 and 20.26 in 2023-24 and 2022-23 respectively.

Overall, Rashford has 138 goals in 426 matches for United, placing him 13th in the all-time list, seven behind Cristiano Ronaldo in 12th.

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There can be no doubting his quality, but people at United talk about Rashford’s attitude needing to shift to meet the standards required and how, having turned 27 in late October, he should be setting an example for the younger players.

Are his off-field choices impacting the level he can reach when the whistle blows on matchday? Until Amorim and his team sense a meaningful improvement, the prospect of a continued absence, or a departure, will remain.

(Top photos: Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton)

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Public unrest began in parts of London late Thursday night, and it appears Morocco’s exit from the 2026 FIFA World Cup at the hands of France is the reason.

France took down Morocco 2-0, eliminating the African country for the second consecutive tournament, this time in a quarterfinal match.

As a result, many feared Paris would erupt into riots, especially after the chaos that followed Paris Saint-Germain’s UEFA Champions League victory over Arsenal in May. 

Instead, images and videos from Edgware Road in northwest London showed police clashing with large crowds as smoke billowed through the streets and debris littered the roadway.

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A police vehicle is parked in a road as people from pro-Palestinian activist groups gather near the Edgware United Synagogue during a demonstration against the “Great Israeli Real Estate Event” organized by real-estate agency My Home in Israel, which markets property in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in London, Britain, June 14, 2026. (Toby Shepheard)

Riot police, equipped with shields and body armor, tried to contain the crowds as they clashed with people launching fireworks and throwing debris. One video also appeared to show an officer down.

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It’s unknown what happened to the officer who was down on the asphalt or how he was injured.

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Fans waved Moroccan flags in the middle of the streets, which held up traffic. Some even jumped on top of vehicles trying to get through the area.

Moroccan fans in the stands before a FIFA World Cup 2026 quarterfinal match between France and Morocco at Boston Stadium July 9, 2026, in Foxborough, Mass. (Richard Sellers/SportsphotoAllstar)

Similar scenes unfolded after Egypt’s World Cup exit, when Argentina rallied for a controversial 3-2 victory that featured several disputed officiating decisions.

Paris, on the other hand, looked more like a city celebrating than one on the brink of a riot. Supporters of both France and Morocco flooded the streets, slowing traffic in several parts of the city.

One video showed horns blasting from cars with French and Moroccan flags out the windows on the L’avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Supporters on the side of the road, waving their own flags, joined in on the celebration.

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France’s Kylian Mbappé scored his eighth goal of this World Cup, which ties him for the most with Argentina’s Lionel Messi. Ousmane Dembélé also scored in the second half for France in the 2-0 win over Morocco.

It’s the third straight semifinal appearance for France, while Morocco still made World Cup history despite the loss. After becoming the first African country to reach the quarterfinals and semifinals in World Cup history in 2022, Morocco added to that by becoming the first-ever African nation to reach more than one quarterfinal.

Moroccan fans react while attending a watch party for the World Cup round of 8 match between France and Morocco in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 9, 2026. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

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Morocco’s exit means there are no more African nations alive in the World Cup. France will be taking on the winner of Spain and Belgium, while England and Norway and Argentina and Switzerland face off in the quarterfinals.

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Arthur Fery’s fairy-tale Wimbledon run puts British wild card on brink of history

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A local boy sleeps in his own bed, plays in front of a king and queen and makes a Cinderella run to the Wimbledon semifinals. Sounds like a Hollywood script that might never see the silver screen.

But it’s no fairy tale — it’s Arthur Fery’s out-of-nowhere performance over the last 10 days.

Fery, a virtually unknown British wild card with a triple-digit ranking, has become the emotional heartbeat of Wimbledon while legitimately diverting some national attention from England’s World Cup quest.

The royal treatment at his matches across the All England Club has come in more ways than one.

Fery, who grew up five minutes from Wimbledon and is staying at home during the tournament, first played before grass-court king Roger Federer, Wimbledon’s eight-time singles champion, during Monday’s fourth-round victory. Two days later, he beat No. 9 seed and French Open runner-up Flavio Cobolli of Italy in the quarterfinals 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-0 in front of Queen Camilla.

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Ranked 114th, Fery had never reached the semifinals of an ATP Tour event, let alone a major, before his brief chat with the queen following the match.

“She just said, ‘Congratulations, keep going,’” 23-year-old Fery told reporters later. “I told her it was my birthday on Sunday, so it would be great to play the Wimbledon final on my birthday.”

That’s still a match away. To get there, Fery will have to get past one of the hottest players on tour: No. 2 seed Alexander Zverev, who is fresh off his first Grand Slam title at the French Open. Looming on the other side of the draw is a highly anticipated showdown between defending champion Jannik Sinner against 24-time major winner Novak Djokovic.

If Fery can continue his magical run to the end, he would become the first British wild card to win a Wimbledon title.

Arthur Fery reacts after defeating Flavio Cobolli in the Wimbledon quarterfinals on Wednesday.

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Born in France, Fery’s family moved to Wimbledon when he was an infant. His mother played professional tennis. He was a top British junior but chose to sharpen his game for three years in the U.S. collegiate system at Stanford, as many of his compatriots have done.

“I came out with a lot of hunger coming out of that, and I was ready to attack the pro circuit,” Fery said.

After struggling with bone bruising in his arm that limited him to playing mostly on the lower-tier Challenger circuit in recent years, Fery is finally healthy and playing consistently.

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His path to the last four in London has been a masterclass in clutch come-from-behind performances. The Brit has stared down near-certain elimination in multiple matches, repeatedly breaking his opponents’ momentum with Houdini-like on-court acts.

At 5-foot-9, Fery possesses a skill set perfectly suited for low-bounding grass.

His compact strokes, low center of gravity, and elite movement allow him to hug the baseline, take time away from opponents, and confidently execute delicate volleys at the net, according to ESPN analyst Chris Eubanks.

“He defends well,” said Eubanks, a 2023 Wimbledon quarterfinalist. “He can scrap. He can claw. He can dig his way back into points. And when he ventures forward, he’s very, very comfortable at the net. This is a picture-perfect example of someone whose game is built for the surface.”

Still, it’s hard to fathom the multitude of milestones for Fery, who briefly reached the No. 1 ranking in college and earned 2023 Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year honors before leaving early to pursue a pro career.

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He arrived at Wimbledon with just one main-draw victory at a major, a losing record as a professional, and only one previous ATP quarterfinal, at Queen’s Club last month. He’s now 11-8, won his first two five-set matches, and is the first British wild card to reach the Wimbledon men’s semifinals in the Open Era. The only other men’s wild-card semifinalist was Goran Ivanisevic, who won the title as a wild card in 2001.

Fery, who started the season ranked No. 185 and will climb to at least No. 36 after the tournament, said there were a “lot of first times” as he reflected on his unprecedented run. “First five-setter, longest match that I’ve ever played, first time breaking into the top 100, first second week in a slam, all at home, five minutes from where I grew up. It’s a great story for me,” he said.

The gap with his fellow semifinalists is understandably massive.

Entering Wimbledon, Djokovic, Sinner and Zverev’s combined records include 29 Grand Slam titles, 2,088 match wins and 155 tour-level titles. Fery was 6-8 in tour-level matches with zero titles.

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But he has singlehandedly lifted the tournament for locals. With top hopes Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu withdrawing before the tournament and the rest of Britain’s singles prospects falling one by one — 18 men and women were eliminated by the third round — Fery became the nation’s last knight standing.

If his first name inevitably evokes Arthurian legend, Fery’s march through the draw gave Britain reason to believe again. No sword, no Round Table, just world-class shot-making, a lion’s heart and a Centre Court crowd thrilled to rally behind him.

“This is really quite something to see on home soil,” said Russell Fuller, the BBC’s tennis correspondent, who compared it with Raducanu’s stunning U.S. Open win in 2021 as a qualifier.

Fery earned every bit of it.

In the first round against Damir Dzumhur, Fery dropped the opening set and trailed by a break in the second before surging back. Against Zizou Bergs in the third round, he faced a 4-1 deficit with a double break in the fourth set, and again fell behind 4-1 in the fifth, before somehow surviving.

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Then, stepping onto Centre Court for the first time against former top-10 stalwart Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria in the fourth round, Fery clawed out of a 2-sets-to-1 hole and a break down in the fourth set to clinch the victory in a fifth-set tiebreak.

“He carries himself with humility, but he’s a fierce competitor, and he’s got a ton of belief in himself,” said Stanford men’s coach and former top-60 player Paul Goldstein, who flew to England Tuesday to see his former charge compete against Cobolli.

While Fery attempts to outmaneuver Zverev on Friday, the other semifinal features a 2025 Wimbledon semifinal rematch between seven-time Wimbledon winner Djokovic and top-ranked Sinner, who defeated the Serb in straight sets on his way to the title. It’s also their second Grand Slam semifinal meeting in 2026. At January’s Australian Open on hard courts, Djokovic bested 24-year-old Sinner in five sets before falling to now-injured Carlos Alcaraz in the Melbourne final.

Arthur Fery hits a return during his Wimbledon quarterfinal win over Flavio Cobolli on Wednesday.

Arthur Fery hits a return during his Wimbledon quarterfinal win over Flavio Cobolli on Wednesday.

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Djokovic, 39, enters the match after surviving a grueling five-set, 5-hour-plus quarterfinal slugfest against No. 3 Félix Auger-Aliassime that concluded just minutes before Wimbledon’s 11 p.m. curfew. But the seventh-seeded Serb has a way of defying Father Time and he has had two days to recover on a surface where points are shorter and generally less taxing on the body.

Italy’s Sinner, who defeated Alcaraz in last year’s Wimbledon final, has been efficient if not at the level that saw him capture five consecutive titles before crashing out in the second round at the French Open. After a first-round scare here, the four-time Grand Slam champion has dominated opponents behind his improving serve, winning 80% of his first-serve points. He hasn’t dropped a set since the opening round. Sinner leads the head-to-head with Djokovic 6-5.

According to Eubanks, Djokovic must disrupt Sinner’s movement to break his rhythm, and take his chances.

“He’s got to play similar to how he played in Australia, where it was just all-out aggression,” Eubanks said.

For Sinner, he added: “His serve can be a neutralizing force for what Novak is going to try to do.”

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On the other side of the ledger, Fery’s poise under pressure and deft use of the home crowd will be paramount to continue his surprise run against Germany’s Zverev, whom he called a “step up again” from his last five matches. Zverev, 29, is seeking his fifth major final and first at Wimbledon.

“I’m ready for it,” Fery said. “I have nothing to lose. I’m just going to go out there and … put my game on the court, do what I’ve done, believe in myself. We’ll see where that takes me.”

Home has never been closer to Centre Court. Nor has Arthur Fery ever been closer to tennis history.

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Jared Jones was flirting with Major League Baseball history on Wednesday night — he got it, but it was not what he originally envisioned.

The Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher retired the first 18 batters he faced, but he was taken out in the middle of his perfect game bid after six innings.

Now, the Pirates certainly have their reasons — the 24-year-old Jones hasn’t thrown more than 81 pitches in eight starts since returning May 20 after missing all of last season while undergoing ulnar collateral ligament internal brace surgery on May 21, 2025. He was yanked with 77 pitches and likely would have needed more than 100 pitches to record the 25th perfect game in MLB history.

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Jared Jones of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitches during the first inning against the Atlanta Braves at PNC Park on July 8, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images)

However, Jones left the game after getting zero run support, so when the Atlanta Braves tacked on three runs late for a 3-0 victory, Jones instead found himself in the wrong chapter of the history books.

According to Opta Stats, Jones became the first pitcher in the modern era (since 1920) to pitch at least six perfect innings and not record a win.

“It does suck. Something’s cool coming on, but I’m on what? My eighth start off of surgery? I completely understand it, and it is what it is,” Jones told reporters after the game.

Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Jared Jones (17) makes his way to the field to warm up before pitching against the Atlanta Braves at PNC Park. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

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Jones said he didn’t entertain attempting to complete the perfect game.

“Not with the pitch count,” he said. “Not really ever expecting to go nine right now, so that was never in my head.”

Joey Bart, traded to the Braves from the Pirates on June 18, followed a double by Mike Yastrzemski with a 422-foot, two-run homer to left-center field off a slider from Dennis Santana. Drake Baldwin added an RBI single to center in the ninth for good measure.

It was the second time in less than a week that a pitcher was taken out of the game with a perfect bid through six innings — the Miami Marlins took Eury Perez out after seven innings in which he had 92 pitches. Perez, too, is in the midst of returning from injury and has surprisingly found himself right in the postseason mix.

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He was pulled for Lake Bachar to start the eighth, and the Marlins allowed eight runs to the Athletics in the final two innings, but held on to win 9-8.

Jared Jones (17) of the Pittsburgh Pirates delivers a pitch during a MLB game against the Cincinnati Reds on June 27, 2026, at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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The Pirates are 4.0 games out of the final wild card spot, which is held by the Marlins.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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