Rockies top Pirates as Pittsburgh manager directs fury at umps over call on final out

The Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates had a classical crippled extremity successful contention connected Saturday night.

Rockies outfielder Jake McCarthy started the crippled with an inside-the-park leadoff location tally disconnected Pirates prima Paul Skenes to commencement the game. Colorado made retired with a 2-1 win, but the Pirates thought they had tied the crippled successful the apical of the ninth inning.

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Pittsburgh Pirates manager Don Kelly argues with umpire Todd Tichenor aft a unit retired ended the ninth inning against the Colorado Rockies successful Denver connected June 20, 2026. (David Zalubowski/AP)

Pirates batter Jake Mangum deed a grounder to Rockies 3rd baseman Kyle Karros. The infielder charged the shot and met baserunner Billy Cook simultaneously. The umpires called everyone harmless connected the field, which would person led to a necktie game. Karros was successful disbelief arsenic helium signaled to his manager to situation the call.

After the umpires met, Cook was called retired for baserunner interference. Pittsburgh manager Don Kelly was irate.

"The runner failed to debar the defender successful the enactment of fielding the baseball; therefore, he’s called out. It’s precise simple," unit main Todd Tichenor told a excavation newsman aft the game, via MLB.com.

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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Paul Skenes pitches against the Colorado Rockies successful the archetypal inning of a shot crippled successful Denver connected June 20, 2026. (David Zalubowski/AP)

Karros said Cook’s cleat "kind of clipped my glove" during the play.

Kelly said helium agreed that Cook deed Karros’ mitt erstwhile helium was moving to 3rd base. However, helium didn’t recognize wherefore the umpires had to huddle to get the telephone correct.

Cook added that helium didn’t deliberation helium made interaction until helium saw the replay.

"Just unfortunate however that played out," helium continued.

Pirates archetypal baseman Spencer Horwitz deed a location tally successful the archetypal inning – it accounted for Pittsburgh’s lone tally successful the loss.

T.J. Rumfield had the different RBI for Colorado. He scored McCarthy.

Colorado Rockies' Jake McCarthy returns to the dugout aft hitting an inside-the-park location tally disconnected Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Paul Skenes successful the archetypal inning of a shot crippled successful Denver connected June 20, 2026. (David Zalubowski/AP)

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Colorado improved to 30-47 connected the year. Pittsburgh fell to 38-39.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.