Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs

PIT 4 — CHC 3

Final (11) — 2026-04-11

Game MVP: Braxton Ashcraft — 5.0 IP, 9 K, 1 ER

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
PIT	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	12	1
CHC	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	9	3

WP Yohan Ramirez (2-0)

LP Caleb Thielbar (1-2)

Scoring Plays

Top 2: Horwitz grounded into double play, shortstop to first, Ozuna scored, Yorke out at second. (0-1)

Top 3: Reynolds singled to right, Cruz scored, Lowe to third. (0-2)

Top 3: O'Hearn hit sacrifice fly to right, Lowe scored. (0-3)

Bot 5: Hoerner grounded out to second, Conforto scored, Swanson to third. (1-3)

Bot 7: Swanson grounded out to shortstop, Amaya scored. (2-3)

Bot 9: Bregman singled to center, Swanson scored, Shaw to third. (3-3)

Top 11: Lowe reached on infield single to pitcher, Gonzales scored on throwing error by pitcher Thielbar, Cruz safe at third on error. (3-4)

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Braxton Ashcraft	5.0	4	1	1	1	9	77-50	2.12
Mason Montgomery	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	13-10	7.11
Justin Lawrence	0.2	1	1	1	1	0	13-7	9.95
Gregory Soto	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	1-1	1.04
Isaac Mattson	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	24-17	2.08
Dennis Santana	1.0	1	1	1	2	0	27-15	1.13
Yohan Ramirez	2.0	0	0	0	3	2	32-18	1.86	W, 2-0

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Edward Cabrera	5.0	8	3	3	3	4	98-62	1.62
Ben Brown	2.0	2	0	0	1	3	34-21	3.55
Jacob Webb	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	17-12	4.76
Hoby Milner	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	12-8	2.16
Daniel Palencia	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	17-9	0.00
Caleb Thielbar	1.0	1	1	0	1	3	19-15	3.38	L, 1-2

Venue: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois (34,049)

Umpires: Home Plate Umpire: Alex Mackay, First Base Umpire: Alan Porter, Second Base Umpire: Jim Wolf, Third Base Umpire: Roberto Ortiz

Broadcast: MARQ | SNPT