Pittsburgh at St. Louis — MLB August 30, 2026

5 – 4

Final

Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
PIT	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	5	8	0
STL	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	4	9	1

Decisions

Win B. Ashcraft PIT

5.0 IP · 6 H · 2 ER · 3 K · 3.59 ERA

Loss M. Liberatore STL

5.2 IP · 6 H · 3 ER · 9 K · 5.41 ERA

Save M. Montgomery PIT

1.0 IP · 0 H · 0 ER · 0 K · 3.07 ERA

Recap

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	PIT	STL
Top 2nd Esmerlyn Valdez homers (16) on a fly ball to right field. Brandon Lowe scores.	2	0
Top 3rd Brandon Lowe reaches on a fielding error by third baseman Ramón Urías. Oneil Cruz scores.	3	0
Top 5th Jared Triolo homers (3) on a fly ball to left field.	4	0
Bottom 5th Iván Herrera singles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Jake Mangum. Thomas Saggese scores. Bryan Torres to 2nd.	4	1
Bottom 5th Alec Burleson singles on a ground ball to right fielder Esmerlyn Valdez. Bryan Torres scores. Iván Herrera to 2nd.	4	2
Top 7th Brandon Lowe singles on a sharp line drive to left fielder Bryan Torres. Oneil Cruz scores. Rafael Flores Jr. to 2nd.	5	2
Bottom 7th Bryan Torres out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Jake Mangum. Ramón Urías scores.	5	3
Bottom 7th Iván Herrera doubles (24) on a fly ball to left fielder Bryan Reynolds. Thomas Saggese scores.	5	4

Closing line

Box score

Pittsburgh

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
J. Triolo SS	4	1	1	1	1	2	.247
O. Cruz DH	4	2	1	0	1	1	.263
B. Reynolds LF	5	0	2	0	0	2	.262
R. Flores Jr. C	4	0	0	0	1	2	.222
B. Lowe 2B	4	1	2	1	0	1	.251
E. Valdez RF	4	1	1	2	0	1	.244
B. Cook CF	0	0	0	0	0	0	.180
J. Mangum CF-RF	4	0	1	0	0	2	.287
S. Horwitz 1B	3	0	0	0	1	1	.247
N. Yorke 3B	4	0	0	0	0	3	.206
Totals		5	8		4	15

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
B. Ashcraft W	5.0	6	2	2	1	3	71
K. Yates	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	8
C. Doval	0.2	2	2	2	2	1	19
Y. Ramírez	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	6
L. Weaver	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	10
M. Montgomery S	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	11

St. Louis

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
B. Torres LF	2	1	2	1	1	0	.264
J. Báez PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.167
I. Herrera C	5	0	2	2	0	0	.243
A. Burleson 1B	4	0	1	1	1	0	.288
J. Walker RF	4	0	0	0	0	2	.285
N. Gorman DH	4	0	0	0	0	0	.187
J. Fermín 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.240
N. Church CF	4	0	0	0	0	1	.239
R. Urías 3B	3	1	0	0	1	2	.151
T. Saggese SS	4	2	3	0	0	0	.210
Totals		4	9		3	6