 The Pirates decided not to go back to Danny Jackson after his performance in Game 2 and instead called on Bob Walk, who also saw action in Game 2 and gave up the grand slam to Ron Gant that broke the game open, to make his first start of the series

This time, the Pirates solved Avery after failing to do so in any of his three previous starts against them in the LCS.Gary Redus led off the home first with a double, scoring on a single by Jay Bell.Avery then induced a groundout off the bat of Andy Van Slyke, which turned out to be the only out he recorded.