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Pirates Tie Single Game Homer Record, Run Out of Fireworks to Celebrate

July 4 may have been yesterday, but the Pirates brought the fireworks on Friday.

Josh Wilson

The Pirates hit seven home runs on Friday, July 5
The Pirates hit seven home runs on Friday, July 5 /
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It's a night of records in Pittsburgh. First, Paul Skenes set a record for the number of seven-plus strikeout games within a pitcher's first 10 games. Then, the Pirates tied their single-game home run record with seven homers.

The Pirates hit so many home runs that they ran out of pyrotechnics to fire off as they normally do after homers.

The team put a message up on the video board to let fans know why any other celebration that night would be more subdued:

Rowdy Tellez and Bryan Reynolds both hit two home runs (Tellez's was a grand slam, the fourth of his career). Jack Suwinski, Yasmani Grandal and Michael Taylor added the others.

All said and done, the Pirates won 14–2. The big turning point was the home run from Reynolds in the fifth inning, which came off a crazy sequence that ballooned the Pirates' win probability by over 20%.

The seven runs are the headline, but the Pirates also put 16 hits on the board, while the pitching staff tallied 11 strikeouts total. It was a masterclass from Pittsburgh.

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JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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