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Bart

Bart had missed five games with a back injury, which allowed Henry Davis to make four starts behind the plate. Bart will now return to a near-everyday role and a .275/.370/.425 slash line. Davis will go back to being a backup.

Bart will miss his fifth straight contest on Wednesday night due to an ongoing back issue. It’ll be Henry Davis handling the catching duties again in his absence.

It’ll be Henry Davis handling the catching duties with Bart out of the lineup for the fourth-straight game with back discomfort.

Bart is out of the lineup for a third-straight game because of back discomfort. Endy Rodríguez is catching this one after Henry Davis filled in over the weekend.

Bart will sit out his second straight contest on Sunday afternoon following his removal from Friday’s game with lower back discomfort. Fantasy managers should consider him day-to-day for now. It’ll be Henry Davis behind the plate for Sunday’s series finale in Cincinnati.

Bart won’t be hitting the injured list yet, but he’s going to sit out Saturday’s contest after making an early exit from Friday’s game with lower back discomfort. It’ll be Henry Davis handling the catching duties on Saturday night in his place. Fantasy managers should consider him day-to-day for now.

The interesting wrinkle here is that Bart hasn’t been placed on the injured list after leaving Friday’s contest with lower back discomfort. Davis gets the call to fortify Pittsburgh’s catching situation ahead of Saturday’s contest against the Reds after hitting .286 with two steals in eight games this season at the Triple-A level. The former top-overall pick from the 2021 MLB Draft will continue to get chances at the highest level, but he hasn’t blossomed into an everyday regular yet.

Whether or not Bart is going on the IL is unclear. Perhaps it’ll be Oneil Cruz instead. Davis, the first overall pick in the 2021 draft, is hitting .286/.355/.393 in eight games for Triple-A Indianapolis. He’d split time with Endy Rodríguez behind the plate while Bart is sidelined.

This hideous game was the first to go scoreless through 11 innings since baseball added the automatic runner in extras. The Cardinals finally scored first on a single from pinch-hitter Jordan Walker in the 12th, but the Pirates answered then and won it on Bart’s fly to left in the 13th. It would have been a sac fly under normal circumstances, but with a man on third just one out in the inning, the outfield was way in. Bart previously was involved in a scary collision with first baseman Endy Rodríguez in the eighth; he lost a popup barely down the third base line in the sun, and Rodriguez ran into him trying to catch it. It ended up being a fair ball that should have resulted in a run, but with both Pirates players laying in the baseline, Thomas Saggese had nowhere to go and ended up being tagged out by a heads-up Ke’Bryan Hayes (who probably could have been called for obstruction for further cutting off Saggese’s path but obviously wasn’t). Fortunately, both Bart and Rodriguez were able to continue. If they weren’t, the Pirates would have lost both of their catchers.

The triple was a little controversial. Bart’s missile to the wall in right-center was clearly interfered with by one of the 14 fans attending PNC Park tonight, preventing Michael Siani’s bid for a spectacular play. The umpires awarded Bart the hit anyway, which seemed like the fairer of the two outcomes; the odds were against Siani making the catch. Still, it seems wrong to reward the team whose fans interfered. Bart had been held without an extra-base hit this season before coming up with two big ones tonight.