The Pirates defeated the Mets by the depend of 14-2 (field rating right here) on Friday night time in Pittsburgh. There’s an argument to be made it really seemed like an even bigger blowout than that, too. The Pirates ended up hitting seven house runs, together with two grand slams, whereas rookie beginning pitcher Paul Skenes put collectively one other excellent outing. 

We’ll begin with the offense from the Pirates. As famous, they hit seven house runs — a season excessive for any crew. The one different time this season a crew has hit greater than 5 homers got here when the A’s hit six towards the Marlins on Might 4. For the Pirates’ franchise, that is the fourth time they’ve gone yard seven occasions, with the earlier most up-to-date time coming Might 26 final season. In addition they hit seven homers in a recreation in 2003 and 1947. 

The MLB document for crew house runs in a recreation is 10, which the Blue Jays pulled off on Sept. 14, 1987. Ernie Whitt hit three homers whereas Rance Mulliniks and George Bell hit two apiece. However let’s get again to the 2024 Pirates. 

The seven-homer outing included grand slams from Bryan Reynolds … 

… and Rowdy Tellez: 

Each gamers hit two homers within the recreation. Reynolds ended with six RBI, Tellez 5. The opposite gamers to homer had been Jack Suwinski, Michael A. Taylor and Yasmani Grandal. 

On the opposite facet, this tied a Mets franchise document for house runs allowed. In addition they allowed seven house runs in a recreation in 1967, 1998, 2017 and 2018. 

All of the Pirates’ offense within the late innings considerably overshadowed one other spectacular outing from rookie sensation Skenes. He left the sport with a 4-2 lead after working seven innings and permitting solely two runs on 4 hits whereas hanging out eight. 

By way of 10 profession begins, Skenes is now 5-0 with a 2.12 ERA, 1.01 WHIP and 78 strikeouts in 59 1/3 innings.