JT Brubaker pitched a stunner and Bryan Reynolds hit two two-run homers—the second being the three-thousandth homer hit in PNC Park—as the Pirates walloped the Red Sox 8-2.
It was clear from the start that Brubaker was in the zone, although Tyler Heineman’s return helped a bit as well (maybe he doesn’t hit, but he calls a good game), but run support, which has doomed a lot of good starts from Brubaker, was also there from the start. After a Kevin Newman single in the first, B-Rey got it done:
In the third, after Newman singled again and Reynolds also got a single.