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00:01 October baseball is in the 305.
00:04 Miami clinched their first full season playoff berth since 2003.
00:10 Welcome into game three of a three-game tilt
00:12 between the 84 and 76 Miami Marlins and the 75 and 86
00:16 Pittsburgh Pirates.
00:17 It's game 162.
00:19 To lead off walk by Ryan Weathers here in the third.
00:22 Here's Jason DeLay, the catcher.
00:23 Through the wickets over there at third base.
00:25 Through that five hole.
00:26 The Pirates have runners at first and second with nobody up.
00:28 Joe is coming to bat.
00:29 Connor Joe.
00:30 There goes the runners.
00:31 And Ryan Weathers has G1 Bay picked off of third.
00:35 Wow.
00:36 What a nice pickoff move by Ryan Weathers.
00:38 G1 Bay, as soon as Weathers came set,
00:41 made a mad dash for third base.
00:43 And Weathers, terrific presence of mind
00:45 there to just disengage the rubber
00:47 and make a really nice strong throw to John Birney on the move
00:50 who tacked out Bay.
00:51 Weathers still has not retired a batter in this inning.
00:53 Walk, error, walk.
00:54 But first and second one out.
00:56 And Jared Triello is coming up.
00:57 First pitch is a slider hit in the air to third base.
01:01 Popped it up.
01:01 And John Birney is there to make the catch.
01:03 And there's two outs here in the third.
01:05 Here's Miguel Andujar.
01:06 And a bouncing ball toward third.
01:08 Birney's got it.
01:09 And they get the out at first base.
01:11 And back to back strikeouts for Brazoban here in the seventh.
01:15 Comes Nick Gonzalez, the second baseman now.
01:17 Hit to left center for Gonzalez.
01:19 That's going to hit the gap and go to the notch.
01:21 Cut off just shy of the notch by Hampson.
01:23 Gonzalez in at second base with a two out, two base hit.
01:27 We need a hero to knock him in.
01:28 Can Bay save the day?
01:30 Just swung on it.
01:30 Missed strike three.
01:31 G1 Bay is down on strikes.
01:33 Dari Moretta punches out the side here in the eighth.
01:36 No scores.
01:36 We go to the bottom of the eighth inning.
01:38 So there's one out here in the eighth.
01:39 Connor Joe, base hit his last time.
01:41 He's coming up.
01:41 Swing and a line drive to the left field corner.
01:43 This will be extra bases.
01:44 Connor Joe's in at second base with one out here
01:47 in the eighth inning.
01:48 Ball four.
01:48 He walked him on four pitches.
01:50 Scoreless game, eighth inning.
01:52 The Pirates have runners at first and second base
01:54 with one away.
01:54 Andujar is 0 for 3.
01:56 And a line toward left field.
01:58 And over the head of the left fielder, DeLa Cruz.
02:01 1-0 Pirates on the double by Miguel Andujar.
02:06 Cewinski at the plate, second and third.
02:07 Infield comes up, one out.
02:10 And that's a fair ball inside the line.
02:13 Jack Cewinski into second with a two run double.
02:17 3-0 Buccos in the eighth.
02:20 Here we go, ninth inning.
02:21 And the Pirates, they've got the lead.
02:23 3-0 over the Marlins.
02:25 And coming on to try to save it, here comes David Bednar.
02:29 Goes with the heat, centers the bat.
02:30 Ground ball to second.
02:31 Gonzalez on the first.
02:33 One out.
02:33 Brian DeLa Cruz coming up.
02:36 Good night.
02:36 Two outs.
02:37 And we are one out away from the conclusion of the 2023
02:41 regular season before we are off to Philadelphia
02:43 to take on those fighting Phils in the wild card.
02:46 He swings and misses strike three.
02:48 The regular season has come to an end.
02:51 It's a 1-2-3, top of the ninth inning for David Bednar.
02:54 The Pittsburgh Pirates shut out the Miami Marlins
02:57 on closing day here in 2023.
03:00 What an unbelievable ride it's been here in 2023.
03:04 And this journey is just starting
03:06 for the Miami Marlins.
03:07 They are postseason bound for the third time
03:09 in a full season in franchise history.
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