CINCINNATI — The Pirates played a meaningful September baseball game on Tuesday night. They made the opportunity count.

The Pirates played spoiler at Great American Ball Park, beating the Reds 4-2 to knock Cincinnati, at least momentarily, out of a wild card berth. No. 4 prospect Hunter Barco made his major league debut and pitched a scoreless inning in relief to earn his first career win.

The Pirates opened the game with a four-run flurry off Reds starter Brady Singer in the second inning, and it was the bottom of the order that did it. Jack Suwinski started the inning with a double to the left-center field gap, before Nick Yorke scored him with a grounder up the middle. Alexander Canario then laced a double down the left field line to bring Yorke in from first.

Oneil Cruz followed wit

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