Davis, Lowe Go Deep as Pirates Cruise Past Mariners 5-1

Bryce Miller struck out 11 batters in 5.2 innings and still lost. Pittsburgh's Henry Davis and Brandon Lowe each homered, combining for four RBI and three runs to hand Seattle a 5-1 defeat on June 25.

The story of the night was Pittsburgh doing its damage early and often against a pitcher who, by strikeout numbers alone, looked unhittable. Lowe set the tone in the first inning, sending a solo shot 391 feet to right center to put Pittsburgh up 1-0. Two innings later, Davis went back-to-back to the same part of the park — 390 feet — with Triolo aboard, and just like that it was 3-0. Miller was racking up strikeouts at a remarkable clip, but the Pirates were making the few hard-hit balls count.

Seattle's best moment — and its only real threat — came in the fifth. Crawford singled to right, scoring Garver and moving Emerson to third to cut the deficit to 3-1. That single swung Pittsburgh's win probability from 78% down to 65%, a 13-point drop that briefly made this feel like a game. It wasn't. Pittsburgh's offense answered in the eighth with back-to-back singles: Lowe drove Davis home, then O'Hearn singled to right to score Reynolds, pushing the final margin to 5-1 and closing the door on any Mariners comeback. Bubba Chandler worked 5.1 innings, allowing just one earned run, and Mason Montgomery was sharp in relief — 1.1 innings, no hits, two strikeouts.

Miller's final line — 5.2 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 11 K — looks like a performance that deserved better run support, and it probably did. Eleven strikeouts with zero walks is elite command, and Pittsburgh still tagged him for three earned runs on five hits. That appears to be the uncomfortable reality for Seattle: Miller gave them every chance to stay in it, and the offense managed just one run on Crawford's fifth-inning single. With MLB teams hitting the unofficial midpoint of the 2026 season this week, a loss like this — where your best starter fans 11 and you score once — is the kind of night that stings on both ends of the ledger.