Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago White Sox: Final Score & Recap

The Pittsburgh Pirates shut out the Chicago White Sox 2-0 at Rate Field on September 10, 2026, holding Chicago to just two hits across nine innings while the DiamondIQ model's estimate of a home win, which opened at 55 percent, fell steadily to zero by the final out.

The game's decisive sequence began in the fourth inning when Oneil Cruz connected on a home run off Erick Fedde, a swing that shifted win probability 11.3 percent in Pittsburgh's favor. Cruz added to his impact in the eighth with a single off Bryan Hudson that moved the needle another 12.0 percent, giving him a game-high plus-20.5 percent WPA and a plus-1.9 RE24 on the night. Chicago's best threat came in the seventh, when a Braden Montgomery lineout off Jared Jones ended a potential rally and swung win probability 6.4 percent back toward Pittsburgh. The White Sox came closest to breaking through in the ninth, when Randal Grichuk singled off Mason Montgomery to generate a brief pulse of hope worth plus-7.8 percent WPA from Chicago's perspective, but Edgar Quero's strikeout to end the inning was the game's third-largest individual play, shifting 11.1 percent back toward Pittsburgh and closing the door.

On the mound, Jared Jones was the story, finishing with a team-best plus-43.0 percent WPA as he neutralized the White Sox lineup with authority. Erick Fedde absorbed the loss after his fourth-inning home run to Cruz proved costly, finishing at minus-18.3 percent WPA. Luke Weaver contributed plus-13.3 percent WPA in Pittsburgh's bullpen effort, and the staff combined to allow just two hits, preserving a clean sheet for a Pirates team that needed only Cruz's bat and Jones's arm to handle Chicago from start to finish.