Pittsburgh Pirates at Los Angeles Angels

· Major League Baseball

Pittsburgh Pirates

10-16, 4-9 Away

Final
3 - 4

Los Angeles Angels

12-12, 5-4 Home

Zach Neto hits tiebreaking homer in the 8th inning as Angels beat the Pirates 4-3

Zach Neto hammers clutch 8th inning homer for Angels

Neto, who missed the first three weeks of the season recovering from right-shoulder surgery, lined an 81 mph sweeper from Pirates reliever Chase Shugart (1-1) over the wall in left to snap a 3-all tie and finished with three hits.

Angels closer Kenley Jansen, with a runner taking off from first base, retired Pittsburgh slugger Oneil Cruz on a 119.6-mph line drive to right fielder Mike Trout to end the game. Jansen earned his sixth save of the season and the 453rd of his career.

Cruz homered for the second straight game, leading off Thursday with a shot to right. Andrew McCutchen doubled, took third on Joey Bart’s single and scored on Ke’Bryan Hayes’ fielder’s-choice grounder to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead.

Pittsburgh first baseman Matt Gorski, recalled from Triple-A earlier in the day, led off the second by hitting a 434-foot homer off Angels left Tyler Anderson to left-center for a 3-0 lead.

Gorski was the first Pittsburgh player to homer in his first big-league at-bat since Starling Marte against Houston in 2012.

The Angels tied the score at 3 in the span of five pitches in the fourth. Trout lined a triple to right, Taylor Ward hit an RBI single to center and Logan O’Hoppe lofted a two-run homer to right.

Ryan Zeferjahn (2-0) picked up the win.

Key moment The Pirates threatened to extend a 3-0 lead when they put runners on second and third with one out in the third. But Anderson got Hayes to fly to shallow right and struck out Alexander Canario to start a string in which he retired 11 straight batters.

Key stat Ward’s RBI single in the fourth snapped a 17-inning scoreless streak dating to the fourth inning Tuesday night.

Up next Right-hander Paul Skenes (2-2, 2.87 ERA) will start for the Pirates on the road against the Dodgers on Friday. Right-hander Kyle Hendricks (0-2, 4.50 ERA) will start for the Angels on the road against the Twins.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Cruz lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Kiner-Falefa struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Frazier singled to right.
	9th Inning	Frazier hit for Triolo
	9th Inning	Gorski flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Jansen relieved Zeferjahn

Statistics

PIT		LAA
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	10
5	Strikeouts	7
3	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	6
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
20	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
149	Pitches	131
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
17	Total Bases	15
37	Plate Appearances	32
324.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
4	Extra Base Hits	4
4.7	Runs Created	3.5
.250	Batting Average	.194
.500	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.472	Slugging Percentage	.484
.250	Secondary Average	.323
.270	On Base Percentage	.219
.742	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.703
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
4.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.8
31.0	Batter Rating	32.5
18.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.03	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.09
.222	Isolated Power	.290
0.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.14
.027	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.031
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.129
6.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
83.3	MLB Rating	80.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0