The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night, 5-3, in one of the rarest games in baseball history over the last five years.
beat the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night, 5-3, thanks to a walk-off home run from Davis Schneider in the 14th inning at Rogers Centre.
The win moved Toronto to 27-29 as they continue to creep back towards .500 while the loss dropped Pittsburgh to 26-31.Per FOX Sports MLB on "X:"Ever since 2020, Major League Baseball has played extra innings with the "automatic runner" rule, so games end much quicker. Codify Baseball also said that in 2018 alone, 19 games last 14 or more innings, while 23 games went at least 14 innings in 2019.
The Blue Jays and Pirates will play again on Saturday afternoon with first pitch coming at 3:07 p.m. ET. Mitch Keller will pitch for Pittsburgh while Yusei Kikuchi gets the ball for Toronto. Keller is 6-3 with a 3.59 ERA while Kikuch is 2-4 with a 3.25.Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University.
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