Pittsburgh Pirates 7 – 1 Cleveland Guardians

MLB · July 18, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Pittsburgh Pirates took Cleveland apart tonight, seven to one, and it wasn't as close as that score might suggest.

Pittsburgh drew first blood in the second inning when Gonzalez went deep to right, four hundred and twenty-eight feet, bringing Callihan home and putting the Pirates up two to nothing right out of the gate. Cleveland answered in the third — Bazzana tripled to right and scored Kwan to make it two to one — and for a moment it looked like the Guardians might have something going. They didn't. That was their last gasp.

The sixth inning is where Pittsburgh buried this one. Valdez launched a three hundred and seventy-three foot shot to right center, scoring Reynolds to push it four to one, and then Gonzales immediately followed with a three hundred and eighty-seven foot blast of his own to make it five to one. Back-to-back home runs, and Cleveland's dugout went quiet in a hurry.

The eighth inning was just salt in the wound. Guardians reliever Festa couldn't find the zone, uncorking two wild pitches that each allowed Lowe to score, and then O'Hearn capped it with a sacrifice fly to bring Reynolds home. Seven to one, final.

Valdez was the story offensively — one for four with the home run and two runs batted in. Reynolds scored twice, and Lowe reached base and scored in that decisive eighth. For Cleveland, Manzardo struck out three times and the lineup never found any traction after Bazzana's early triple.

Pittsburgh was the better team tonight from the second inning on, and Cleveland never had an answer. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

Gonzalez homered to right (428 feet), Callihan scored. P2 · 2–0
Bazzana tripled to right, Kwan scored. P3 · 2–1
Valdez homered to right center (373 feet), Reynolds scored. P6 · 4–1
Gonzales homered to right center (387 feet). P6 · 5–1
Lowe scored on Festa wild pitch, Reynolds to third on wild pitch by Festa. P8 · 6–1
Lowe scored on Festa wild pitch, Reynolds to third on wild pitch by Festa. P8 · 6–1
O'Hearn hit sacrifice fly to right, Reynolds scored. P8 · 7–1

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Gavin Williams pitches to Jake Mangum P1

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1

Mangum flied out to left. P1

Gavin Williams pitches to Brandon Lowe P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Lowe singled to right. P1

Gavin Williams pitches to Bryan Reynolds P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Reynolds struck out swinging. P1

Gavin Williams pitches to Esmerlyn Valdez P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P1

Valdez popped out to second. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Jared Jones pitches to Travis Bazzana P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Bazzana struck out swinging. P1

Jared Jones pitches to Brayan Rocchio P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Rocchio struck out swinging. P1

Jared Jones pitches to Chase DeLauter P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P1

DeLauter struck out looking. Pittsburgh Pirates challenged: call on the field was overturned. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Gavin Williams pitches to Ryan O'Hearn P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

O'Hearn flied out to center. P2

Gavin Williams pitches to Nick Gonzales P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2

Gonzales flied out to left. P2

Gavin Williams pitches to Tyler Callihan P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Callihan doubled to right. P2

Gavin Williams pitches to Jacob Gonzalez P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Gonzalez homered to right (428 feet), Callihan scored. P2

Gavin Williams pitches to Henry Davis P2

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2

Davis lined out to right. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Jared Jones pitches to Kyle Manzardo P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Manzardo struck out swinging. P2

Jared Jones pitches to Rhys Hoskins P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2

Hoskins flied out to left. P2

Jared Jones pitches to Kahlil Watson P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Watson struck out swinging. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Gavin Williams pitches to Jake Mangum P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Mangum grounded out to first. P3

Gavin Williams pitches to Brandon Lowe P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Lowe struck out swinging. P3

Gavin Williams pitches to Bryan Reynolds P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Reynolds struck out swinging. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Jared Jones pitches to Gabriel Arias P3

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3

Arias grounded out to shortstop. P3

Jared Jones pitches to Patrick Bailey P3

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3

Bailey flied out to left. P3

Jared Jones pitches to Steven Kwan P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Kwan singled to left. P3

Jared Jones pitches to Travis Bazzana P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3

Bazzana tripled to right, Kwan scored. P3

Jared Jones pitches to Brayan Rocchio P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Rocchio grounded out to shortstop. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Gavin Williams pitches to Esmerlyn Valdez P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P4

Valdez struck out looking. P4

Gavin Williams pitches to Ryan O'Hearn P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

O'Hearn struck out swinging. P4

Gavin Williams pitches to Nick Gonzales P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P4

Gonzales struck out looking. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Jared Jones pitches to Chase DeLauter P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

DeLauter singled to left. P4

Jared Jones pitches to Kyle Manzardo P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Manzardo struck out swinging. P4

Jared Jones pitches to Rhys Hoskins P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Hoskins struck out swinging. P4

Jared Jones pitches to Kahlil Watson P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4

Watson grounded out to second. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Gavin Williams pitches to Tyler Callihan P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Callihan struck out swinging. P5

Gavin Williams pitches to Jacob Gonzalez P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Gonzalez singled to right. P5

Gavin Williams pitches to Henry Davis P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P5

Davis struck out looking. P5

Gavin Williams pitches to Jake Mangum P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Mangum lined out to left. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Jared Jones pitches to Gabriel Arias P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Arias struck out swinging. P5

Jared Jones pitches to Patrick Bailey P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Bailey grounded out to second. P5

Jared Jones pitches to Steven Kwan P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P5

Kwan walked. P5

Jared Jones pitches to Travis Bazzana P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P5

Bazzana struck out looking. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Gavin Williams pitches to Brandon Lowe P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Lowe struck out swinging. P6

Gavin Williams pitches to Bryan Reynolds P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Reynolds singled to center. P6

Gavin Williams pitches to Esmerlyn Valdez P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Valdez homered to right center (373 feet), Reynolds scored. P6

Gavin Williams pitches to Ryan O'Hearn P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

O'Hearn struck out swinging. P6

Gavin Williams pitches to Nick Gonzales P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Gonzales homered to right center (387 feet). P6

Gavin Williams pitches to Tyler Callihan P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Callihan struck out swinging. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Mlodzinski relieved Jones P6

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Brayan Rocchio P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Rocchio flied out to center. P6

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Chase DeLauter P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6

DeLauter grounded out to third. P6

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Kyle Manzardo P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Manzardo grounded out to second. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Festa relieved Williams P7

Matt Festa pitches to Jacob Gonzalez P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7

Gonzalez grounded out to second. P7

Matt Festa pitches to Henry Davis P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Davis struck out swinging. P7

Matt Festa pitches to Jake Mangum P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Mangum struck out swinging. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Rhys Hoskins P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7

Hoskins singled to left. P7

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Kahlil Watson P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Watson struck out swinging. P7

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Gabriel Arias P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Arias struck out swinging, Hoskins stole second. P7

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Patrick Bailey P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Bailey lined out to first. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Matt Festa pitches to Brandon Lowe P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8

Lowe singled to right. P8

Matt Festa pitches to Bryan Reynolds P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8

Reynolds doubled to right, Lowe to third. P8

Matt Festa pitches to Esmerlyn Valdez P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P8

Lowe scored on Festa wild pitch, Reynolds to third on wild pitch by Festa. P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Valdez struck out swinging. P8

Heuer relieved Festa P8

Codi Heuer pitches to Ryan O'Hearn P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8

O'Hearn hit sacrifice fly to right, Reynolds scored. P8

Codi Heuer pitches to Nick Gonzales P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8

Gonzales reached on infield single to pitcher. P8

Codi Heuer pitches to Tyler Callihan P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8

Callihan flied out to right. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Steven Kwan P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Kwan singled to left. P8

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Travis Bazzana P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Bazzana flied out to center. P8

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Brayan Rocchio P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Rocchio lined out to second. P8

Carmen Mlodzinski pitches to Chase DeLauter P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

DeLauter grounded out to second. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Codi Heuer pitches to Jacob Gonzalez P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9

Gonzalez grounded out to shortstop. P9

Codi Heuer pitches to Henry Davis P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

Davis singled to right. P9

Codi Heuer pitches to Jake Mangum P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Mangum grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Davis out at second. P9

Middle of the 9th inning P9

Bottom of the 9th inning P9

Mangum in right field. P9

Cook in center field. P9

Mattson relieved Mlodzinski P9

Isaac Mattson pitches to Kyle Manzardo P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Manzardo struck out swinging. P9

Isaac Mattson pitches to Rhys Hoskins P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9

Hoskins flied out to center. P9

Isaac Mattson pitches to Kahlil Watson P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Watson singled to center. P9

Isaac Mattson pitches to Gabriel Arias P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Arias struck out swinging. P9

End of the 9th inning P9