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Brandon Lowe sits against southpaw on Sunday

Brandon Lowe

PIT 2nd Baseman #5

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Brandon Lowe is absent from the Pirates’ starting lineup for Sunday’s divisional showdown against the Cubs.

Lowe will take a seat with left-hander Matthew Boyd toeing the slab for the Cubs. Spencer Horwitz will also get the same treatment. Nick Gonzales will cover second base in his absence and will bat fifth for the Pirates on Sunday afternoon at Wrigley Field.

- David Shovein

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Brandon Lowe crushed his 35th home run of the season in Saturday’s loss to the Tigers.

Lowe took Detroit starter Justin Verlander deep in the fourth inning for his seventh round-tripper since the beginning of September. The 32-year-old second baseman, who has also made a massive leap from a defensive metrics standpoint, has expressed a desire to remain in Pittsburgh long-term. He figures to have plenty of potential suitors when he reaches free agency in a couple weeks.
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Brandon Lowe finished 2-for-4 with a homer that accounted for the Pirates’ lone run Wednesday against the Cardinals.

After a mediocre August, Lowe has bounced back with his best month or an excellent 2026 season, hitting .338/.413/.620 with six homers in 19 games in September. Still, it looks like he’s going to finish a little short of 100 runs scored or RBI. He has 93 runs scored and 94 RBI with four to play.
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Nick Gonzales went 1-for-4 as the Pirates’ DH against the Cardinals on Wednesday.

This would have been a better night in any other ballpark. His first at-bat saw him hit a ball 382 feet to left that was caught by José Fermin at the wall. It was a homer in 29 ballparks, according to Statcast, but not at PNC.
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Nick Gonzales is out of Pittsburgh’s lineup against the Cardinals on Tuesday.

Gonzales is 0-for-12 lifetime against Andre Pallante, so he’s taking a seat in favor of Jacob Gonzalez tonight. Gonzales, who has been in the running for the NL batting title, is 2-for-14 in his last five games, dropping his average to .302. That puts him behind Luis Arraez (.313), Gabriel Moreno (.307) and Otto Lopez (.305).
Brandon Lowe

PIT 2nd Baseman #5

Brandon Lowe went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a two-run home run against the Royals on Saturday.

Lowe’s home run was his 33rd of the season. He hit a two-run shot off Royals reliever Steven Cruz to put the Pirates up 6-5 in the bottom of the eighth inning. Lowe has four home runs in his last five games. He’s hitting .262 with an .826 OPS and 93 RBI this year.
Brandon Lowe

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Brandon Lowe went 1-for-5 with a homer and two RBI in Friday’s win over the Royals.

Lowe blasted a two-run homer off Royals starter Randy Dobnak in the bottom of the third inning. It was the 32nd homer of the season for Lowe, who has now homered in three of his last four games and four times in the month of September. Lowe’s homer extended his hitting streak to six games, and he has now driven in at least one run in five-straight games.
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Ryan O’Hearn is not in the starting lineup on Thursday against the Brewers.

With the Brewers starting left-hander Kyle Harrison, O’Hearn will take a seat on the bench, and Rafael Flores will play first base while Henry Davis will catch and bat ninth. Brandon Lowe is in the lineup at second base, but he has moved down to fifth against the lefty.
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Brandon Lowe connected on his 30th homer Tuesday for the Pirates’ lone run against the Brewers.

The homer came off reliever DL Hall, making it his seventh of the year against a lefty. It’s his third 30-homer season; he had 39 in 2021 and 31 last year. That’s really mostly about health, though; he slugs the same every year, but the 30-homer seasons are the only years of his career in which he’s topped 110 games.
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Nick Gonzales is starting at third base and batting sixth against the Brewers on Tuesday.

Even though Gonzales is in the hunt for a batting title and has been quite a bit better against righties (.324/.385/.425) than lefties (.262/.330/.323), he had been held out of the starting lineup in two of the Pirates’ previous three games against righties, as things have gotten more crowded with Konnor Griffin and Ryan O’Hearn back. Gonzales is, though, getting a nod over Jared Triolo and Jacob Gonzalez tonight. It’s the first time since July 7, which was a few days before Gonzalez was acquired from the White Sox, that the Pirates haven’t included one of Triolo or Gonzalez in the lineup.
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Nick Gonzales had an RBI double as part of a three-run sixth inning in the Pirates’ 4-3 win over the Cubs on Sunday.

Gonzales’s double to right would have been a three-run homer in 23 ballparks and likely a two-run double in six of the remaining seven. In Wrigley, though, the ball got stuck in the ivy, preventing Rafael Flores Jr. from scoring the go-ahead run. Fortunately, Brandon Lowe followed with a two-run single off the bench, giving the Pirates a 4-2 lead. It was Gonzales’s 26th double of the year. He’s still in the running for a batting title. At .304, he trails only Luis Arraez (.313) and Otto Lopez (.309) in the NL.

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Yandy Díaz went 3-for-5 with a run scored in a Game 5 win for the Rays over the Guardians on Sunday in the ALCS.

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Bryan Baker hurled a scoreless inning while picking up a save on Sunday in Game 5 of the ALCS against the Guardians.

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Parker Messick was charged for three runs in two-plus innings in a Game 5 loss in the ALCS on Sunday against the Rays.

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Drew Rasmussen went seven innings and allowed one run to pick up a win in a 3-1 victory for the Rays over the Guardians on Sunday in Game 5 of the ALCS.

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Ryan Vilade and Ben Williamson have joined the Rays’ starting lineup for Game 5 of the ALCS against the Guardians.

With left-hander Parker Messick on the mound for the Guardians in Game 5, the Rays will change things up with Vilade starting in right field and batting third while Williamson takes over at second base and will bat eighth. Here’s the full lineup that Rays’ skipper Kevin Cash will deploy as the Rays look to take control of the ALCS on Sunday: Yandy Díaz (DH), Jonathan Aranda (1B), Ryan Vilade (RF), Junior Caminero (3B), Chandler Simpson (LF), Jonny DeLuca (CF), Liam Hicks (C), Ben Williamson (2B) and Taylor Walls (SS).
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The Guardians will roll out the same lineup in Game 5 of the ALCS that they used in a losing effort against the Rays in Game 4 on Saturday.

If you’re keeping track at home, it’s also the same lineup that they deployed in victories in Game 1 and 3 of the series. Battling Rays’ right-hander Drew Rasmussen is always a very difficult assignment, but they managed to earn a victory against him in Game 1, so they know that it can be done. Here’s the full lineup that manager Stephen Vogt has turned in for the Guardians’ most critical game of the season on Sunday: Steven Kwan (LF), José Ramírez (3B), Chase DeLauter (RF), Jo Adell (DH), Nathaniel Lowe (1B), Travis Bazzana (2B), Patrick Bailey (C), Petey Halpin (CF) and Brayan Rocchio (SS).
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Ben Rortvedt has elected free agency.

The 29-year-old backstop hit .185/.185/.370 with one RBI in 28 plate appearances with the Dodgers in 2026. He’ll latch on somewhere as quality catching depth, presumably at the Triple-A level, in 2027.
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MJ Melendez has elected free agency.

The 27-year-old slugger slashed a meager .192/.315/.350 with four home runs, 11 RBI and a 50/17 K/BB ratio across 144 plate appearances in 56 games with the Mets during the 2026 season. He has still flashed enough power potential that there will always be teams willing to take a chance on him as a reclamation project.
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Tyler Freeman has elected free agency.

Freeman had a disappointing season for the Rockies in 2026, slashing .247/.317/.314 with three homers, 23 RBI and six stolen bases in his 288 plate appearances. He has proven to be a quality utility option in the past though and could intrigue some teams as a potential bench option.
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Luis Vázquez has elected free agency.

The 27-year-old infielder sent almost the entire season at Triple-A Norfolk where he slashed .226/.271/.371 with six homers, 19 RBI and eight stolen bases across 202 plate appearances. He’ll look to latch on elsewhere on what will assuredly be another minor league pact.
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