Pirates in baseball: Carter Cunningham has big night in Canadians’ win

by | Apr 27, 2025

Carter Cunningham will be on Parker Byrd’s podcast, which will be released on Sunday. Before that, he had a big night at the plate on Saturday.

The ECU alum was 2-for-3 with two runs, two RBI and a walk in his team’s 10-1 win over Everett. He singled in the third, walked and scored in the sixth and hit a two-run homer in the sixth to boost Vancouver’s lead to the final margin. It was his first homer with Vancouver.

The night improved his batting average to .200 for the season and comes a day after he was 1-for-3 with a walk. Before that, he was placed on the Development List on April 18 and returned to the team last Friday.

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See below to find out what the rest of the Pirates in baseball did on Saturday.

Major League Baseball

Connor Norby, Miami Marlins: 0-for-3 in 14-0 loss to Mariners.

Alec Burleson, St. Louis Cardinals: Did not play in 6-5 win over Brewers

Shawn Armstrong, Texas Rangers: Pitched in 3-2 loss to Giants. Came on in the sixth and pitched 1.2 innings, giving up a hit with two strikeouts. Lowered his ERA to 2.61.

Gavin Williams, Cleveland Guardians

Jeff Hoffman, Toronto Blue Jays: Game with Yankees rained out. WIll play doubleheader on Sunday

Zach Agnos, Colorado Rockies: Did not pitch in 6-4 loss to Reds.

Clayton McCullough, Miami Marlins (manager): Team lost 14-0 to drop to 12-14 for the season.

Triple-A

Carson Whisenhunt, Sacramento RiverCats (San Francisco Giants): Did not pitch in 4-2 win over El Paso.

Double-A

Carter Spivey, Akron Rubber Ducks (Guardians): Did not pitch in doubleheader, 4-1 loss to Richmond in Game 1 and 2-1 win in Game 2.

Trey Benton, Akron Rubber Ducks (Guardians): On season-ending disabled list

Single-A

Trey Yesavage, Dunedin Blue Jays (Blue Jays): Did not pitch in 5-1 win over Tampa.

Carter Cunningham, Vancouver Canadians (Blue Jays): See above.

Josh Moylan, Hudson Valley Renegades (Yankees): Was 1-for-5 in 15-0 win over Asheville.

Josh Grosz, Hudson Valley Renegades (Yankees): Did not pitch in 15-0 win over Asheville.

Tyler Bradt, Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals): Pitched in 2-1 win over Quad Cities. Pitched last of fourth and all of the fifth, gave up a hit, a walk and struck out two to lower his ERA to 6.75.

Jacob-Jenkins-Cowart, Jupiter Hammerheads (Marlins): Did not play in 9-0 loss to Palm Beach.

Ryan McCrystal, Daytona Tortugas (Reds): 0-for-2 with a walk in 4-2 loss to St. Lucie

Wyatt Lunsford-Shenkman, Modesto Nuts (Mariners): Placed on full-season disabled list on April 15.

Erik Ritchie, Clearwater Threshers (Phillies): Did not pitch in 5-3 loss to Fort Myers.

Frontier League

Danny Beal, Down East Bird Dawgs (Independent): Season begins May 9 

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