The back end of the Pirates bullpen looks all right.
One day after left-hander Tony Watson was displaced as the closer, left-hander Felipe Rivero entered for a four-out save against the Miami Marlins Saturday and did his job, securing a 7-6 come-from-behind win. The ending sequence — strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, groundout — lowered Rivero’s ERA from 0.58 to 0.56. Rivero earned his first save with the Pirates.
The Pirates (27-35) clawed from behind most of the afternoon, since starter Trevor Williams was charged with five runs on six hits in four innings. Their comeback arrived in the form of a three-run seventh, capped by Jordy Mercer’s two-run, tying triple and John Jaso’s pinch-hit, go-ahead double.