Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs

The Cubs walked off the Pirates 4-3 at Wrigley Field when Matt Shaw drew a bases-loaded walk and Nico Hoerner took a hit by pitch in the eighth inning. Chicago trailed 3-2 entering the frame before scratching across two runs without a hit. Paul Skenes logged seven innings for Pittsburgh, striking out four and allowing two earned on 82 pitches. His ERA now sits at 3.78. Opposite him, Clay Holmes worked 5.2 innings and punched out six while surrendering two earned runs on 100 pitches, lowering his ERA to 2.85. The K model tracked both lines closely. Ryan O'Hearn erased a 2-0 Cubs lead in the sixth with a three-run shot to right that scored Brandon Lowe and Bryan Reynolds. Michael Busch opened the scoring in the first with a solo home run to center, his nineteenth, and Pedro Ramírez added a solo blast in the third, his sixth. Ramírez also came around to score the winning run in the eighth on Shaw's walk. The model had a lean NRFI, and the first inning finished scoreless despite Busch's homer coming one frame later. Skenes logged four strikeouts against no specific projection cited, while Holmes recorded six. Ryan Rolison earned the win, Gregory Soto took the loss, and Ryan Zeferjahn notched the save.