Suarez gets huge strikeout as the Padres beat the Pirates for the 10th straight time

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego closer Robert Suarez got a huge called third strike with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning and the Padres beat Pittsburgh 3-2 on Friday night for their 10th straight victory over the Pirates.

After Jason Adam loaded the bases with two outs, Suarez came in and struck out Henry Davis looking on a low pitch that appeared out of the strike zone. Davis tossed his bat and started taking off his wrist guard in anticipation of taking first and then threw up his arms in disgust and tossed his helmet. Andrew McCutchen, representing the tying run, put his hands on his helmet in surprise halfway up the line.

Pirates manager Don Kelly was ejected by plate umpire Edwin Jimenez.

The four-out save was Suarez's major league-leading 18th. He struck out three.

Padres right-hander Nick Pivetta (6-2) held the Pirates to two runs and six hits while striking out eight and walking none for his first win in five starts.

The right-hander cruised through five scoreless, two-hit innings and had a 1-0 lead before allowing two runs with two outs in the sixth. Tommy Pham and Isiah Kiner-Falefa singled to open the inning. Pivetta retired Oneil Cruz and Andrew McCutchen on one pitch apiece before allowing RBI singles by Bryan Reynolds and Spencer Horwitz.

The Padres regained the lead in the bottom of the inning against Mitch Keller (1-7). Fernando Tatis Jr. drew a leadoff walk and raced around to score on Luis Arraez's opposite-field double into the left-field corner. Arraez advanced on Manny Machado's fly ball to left and beat second baseman Adam Frazier's throw home with a headfirst slide on Jackson Merrill's grounder.

San Diego took a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Machado doubled with two outs and came home when Merrill's single carmoned off the glove of sliding shortstop Kiner-Falefa.

Pirates starter Mitch Keller (1-7) allowed three runs and three hits in six innings.

Tatis got a huge jump ahead of Arraez's double and scored standing up.

The winning streak matches the second-longest against an opponent in Padres’ history, done four times.

Pirates LHP Bailey Falter (3-3, 3.47 ERA) and Padres RHP Dylan Cease (1-3, 4.58 ERA) were scheduled to start Saturday night.

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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller (23) throws against a San Diego Padres batter in the first inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 30, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)

San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado (13) signals that he should be safe at second base after sliding past Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa, left, in the fourth inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 30, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)

San Diego Padres first baseman Luis Arraez (4) and right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. (23) celebrate after winning a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Friday, May 30, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)

Umpire Andy Fletcher (49) talks with Pittsburgh Pirates manager Don Kelly, right, after the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Friday, May 30, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)

San Diego Padres starting pitcher Nick Pivetta throws against a Pittsburgh Pirates batter in the first inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 30, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)