DENVER (AP) — Andrew McCutchen homered, Mark Mathias had a career-high 4 hits and the Pittsburgh Pirates took benefit of an off evening from Colorado starter Kyle Freeland to beat the Rockies 14-3 on Monday.
Freeland (2-1) posted a 0.96 ERA by his first three begins and had pitched not less than six innings in every outing however was ineffective in opposition to the Pirates.
McCutchen, who had two hits, launched a solo homer within the first inning — his third of the season — and the primary seven Pittsburgh batters reached in a six-run second.
“We acquired on the board early with the ’Cutch homer after which we simply continued to grind by,” Pirates supervisor Derek Shelton mentioned. “You search for and you’ve got 15 or 16 hits.”
Ke’Bryan Hayes drove within the ninth run of the sport with two outs within the third to lift Freeland’s ERA to three.80. Freeland allowed 9 runs — seven earned — after giving up simply two runs coming into Monday.
“They have been attacking early, they usually have been capable of get fastballs in early counts,” Freeland mentioned. “Any benefit counts and I wasn’t capable of put them away.”
Wealthy Hill (1-2) cruised by six innings to choose up his first win with the Pirates.
“It was simply that depth and that effort that continued to construct over the six innings,” the 43-year-old Hill mentioned. “Why I’ve been capable of play for so long as I’ve been capable of play is that depth.”
Kris Bryant had three hits, together with his first homer at Coors Discipline since becoming a member of the Rockies earlier than the 2022 season.
“It’s cool to sort of get that out of the best way, and never simply get it out of the best way however really feel actually good about all my at-bats within the recreation tonight,” Bryant mentioned. “I really feel like I may undoubtedly do extra, however I’ve acquired to have a look at extra of the positives. A few of the numbers look good, however I might like to do higher simply when it comes to serving to this group win.”
Jack Suwinski hit a 461-foot homer into the second deck in proper off Colorado infielder Alan Trejo within the ninth.
“You suppose, that is enjoyable, as you’re scoring all these runs, however then you definately additionally suppose, we’re in Colorado, on this ballpark, and our bullpen was just a little bit brief. So it was just about, we have to hold going,” Shelton mentioned.
Rockies third baseman Elehuris Montero, acquired within the Nolan Arenado commerce with St. Louis, dedicated pricey errors within the second and fifth and bobbled one other grounder that might have probably been an inning-ending double play within the fifth. That led to 2 extra runs on a single by Carlos Santana.
