Noelvi Marte’s ninth-inning grab preserves Reds playoff hopes

Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates met on Thursday in the second-last normal season series of each team.

Reds, Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs – two teams that have already wore playoff docks – entered the game in the national league center ranking. Pirates have been removed from the contention after the season for a long time, but Reds’s playoff hopes survive.

Reds’s loss on Thursday could have been a destructive blow to the team’s post -season hopes. Reds Third Master Christmas Marte took part to prevent it from being.

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Pirates Right -field Bryan Reynolds hit a home run in the ninth kick, but Marte was taken to capture a worthy of emphasis to record the final of the game.

Cincinnati was in danger of a three -game sweep, but he helped Marte’s capture and RBI Single in the fifth shot to avoid this misfortune. Outdoor player Lux lasted in Reds’s second run in the same shot.

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2-1 loss, the pirates of the season 90.

Cincinnati Reds third master Christmas MARTE (16), on September 25, 2025, Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati caught the finale from the ninth shot of the game between Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh pirates. (Sam Greene / Enquirer / USA Today Network Imagn Images)

“This was a wonderful series of baseball,” Pirates, Don Kelly. He said. “It was well played on both sides – the defense effort, the effort of shooting, aggressively, to find ways to come. Bryan could tie it, Marte pulls it back.

Cincinnati Reds reacts with Shortop Elli de la Cruz (44) after victory against Pittsburgh Pirates in the Great American Ball Park in Ohio on September 25, 2025, on September 25, 2025. (Katie Stratman/Imagn Images)

The next, Reds will meet Brewers on Friday for a three -game series. Brewers’ 96 wins represent the most victory in MLB this season.

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Pirates start the last normal season series in 2025 on Friday against Braves in Atlanta.

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