Bad News Buccos: Pittsburgh Pirates Collide But Somehow Get The Out In Wild, Game-Saving Play

This might be the most hardest collision we’ve seen on a baseball diamond in years…

The Pittsburgh Pirates are playing the St. Louis Cardinals right now in a game that’s well into extra innings. As I write this, it’s the bottom of the 13th and the score is tied 1-1.

But, as it tends to happen in baseball, not many people are talking about the game as a whole and are instead focusing on a ridiculous play the happened in the top of the 8th inning.

The Cardinals were up to bat and had runners on first and second with two outs when Willson Contreras sent a pop-up into the sky right by home plate. Anyone who knows anything about baseball knows this should be the catcher’s ball, but Pirates backstop Joey Bart didn’t see the ball off the bat and it looked like this should be out was going to drop-in, which would be fitting for this debacle of a Pirates team.

So first baseman Endy Rodriguez went full sprint to try and make a spectacular play, which should be lauded no doubt, but Bart was able to locate the ball right at the last second and lunged toward where it was falling.

This resulted in one of the biggest collisions you’ll ever see on a baseball diamond. The sound their bodies made smacking together will not leave my ears anytime soon…

Check it out for yourself:

This just happened. #Pirates pic.twitter.com/ZnfjRBk30V https://t.co/NzNxfK3IZB

— Steelers Depot 7⃣ (@Steelersdepot) April 9, 2025

Somehow, third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes, happened to find the ball and tag out the Cardinals runner who was trying to take advantage of the chaos and score the go-ahead run from second base.

Truthfully, it was one of the wildest plays you’ll ever see on a baseball diamond and wound up saving the game by forcing extra innings.

Rodriguez was shaken up on the play and stayed down for a little bit but was able to shake it off and stay in the game, which should put to bed the whole “All baseball players are pansies” allegations…

Pittsburgh Pirates Walk It Off In Extras

There would be no 14th inning at PNC today.

Joey Bart, who was involved in the collision at home in the 8th inning, stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the 13th. He took a Chris Roycroft fastball to the warning track in left, where it bounced over the fence for a walk-off ground rule double:

Raise the Jolly Roger

Joey Bart wins it for the @Pirates in the 13th inning! pic.twitter.com/dRXYu0Ba0L

— MLB (@MLB) April 9, 2025

Good for Bart. He earned this win by taking shaking off that violent collision and staying in the game.

I’m not really a Pirates fan but it’s hard not to root for this team… Fans hate the ownership, Paul Skenes is the man, and I’m a Steelers fan so of course I want the Buccos to be good.

They’ve got a long way to go, but hey, they’re only 3 games under .500 right now and there’s still a lot of ball left to be played. Maybe they’ll make a run… Okay probably not but we can all say we’d love Andrew McCutchen to get in the postseason one more time.

Hopefully an Andrew McCutchen edit can help brighten your day after this hard to watch series pic.twitter.com/qunhDINqy8

— Henry Davis (@HenryDavisMVP) March 30, 2025

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