Edward Olivares and Nick Gonzales homered, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 on Thursday night.
in the eighth, but the Pirates opened the four-game series on a winning note after losing six of eight. They dropped two of three to the Cubs in Pittsburgh over the weekend.
Jones was charged with three runs and seven hits. The 22-year-old right-hander has gone at least five innings and allowed three runs or fewer in each of his nine career starts. This was his fifth outing without a walk, and he never faced a three-ball count with his slider keeping the Cubs off balance.
“Just going to straight back to the drawing board, seeing video, seeing what I've been doing in past outings where it's been really good,” he said. “Making sure I'm doing that in catch play every single day.”“The first pitch to Seiya got away from him and then we had the throw inside the line, but he was able to build it out,” manager Derek Shelton said. “Oscar had a really good visit with him and kind of calmed him down, and then Alika with an unbelievable play.
Steele, coming off a shaky outing in the Cubs' 10-9 loss at Pittsburgh on Saturday, gave up five runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings. The left-hander struck out seven and walked one in his third start back from a strained left hamstring. was out of the lineup for the third straight game. He went through a more normal pregame routine after doing nothing the previous day, and Counsell hoped to have him back on Friday.
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