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Hey, Quick Pitches Sure Seem To Speed Up The Pace Of Play
In the top of the ninth inning of a lopsided Pirates victory over the vile St. Louis Cardinals Friday, Pirates reliever Kyle Crick quick-pitched Cardinals pinch hitter Harrison Bader on an 0-2 count, drawing a delightfully meager and pointless little swinging bunt from Bader:...
Pirates' Gregory Polanco Becomes The Subject Of A Weird PED Hoax
On Tuesday, just after Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano was suspended 80 games for failing a drug test, Pirates outfielder Gregory Polanco started to receive concerned texts from his friends and family in the Dominican Republic. A fake ESPN tweet began to circulate online, suggesting that Polan...
Jameson Taillon Is Willing To Have His Teammates Pee On Him If It Helps
Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon was pulled from his start against the Giants on Friday after three excellent innings because of a serious cut on his middle finger, which was likely the result of his thumbnail digging into his finger when he threw curveballs. Taillon was bleeding on the ball to point...
The Story Of The Greatest Photo From The Greatest Game Ever Played
Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Yankees has been described as “the greatest game ever played” and “the best game ever.” Entering the bottom of the ninth, the score was tied 9-9, and Bill Mazeroski was leading off....
Pirates Pitcher Nick Kingham Had A Hell Of A Debut
Eight years after being drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates, Nick Kingham delivered one of the best major-league debuts of all time. He took a perfect game into the seventh inning against the Cardinals, before Paul DeJong knocked a single down the third-base line with two outs. Kingham retired 20 stra...
Jung Ho Kang Gets A Visa, Will Return To The Pirates
Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang, who’s been out of MLB since 2016 due to multiple DUI arrests in his native Korea, has been granted a work visa by the U.S. government and will return to his old team, the Pirates announced today. A since-deleted tweet from an immigration attorney appears to show t...
The Lowest Lowlight From A Slapstick Pirates Loss Was This Three-Run Sacrifice Fly
Though there were almost no fans in attendance to see it, something extremely dumb and good happened in last night’s silly Pirates-Marlins game: with one out in the bottom of the 5th inning, with the bases loaded, Marlins second baseman Starlin Castro skied a fly ball to right field for what would n...
Pirates Closer Felipe Rivero Has Changed His Name To Felipe Vázquez
Pirates reliever Felipe Rivero has changed his name to Felipe Vázquez, matching the surname of his sister, Prescilla Vázquez....
Tigers Win On Walkoff, Then Return To Field After Bullshit Replay Reversal
For every normal fan watching extra innings of today’s game between the Pirates and Tigers, it looked like Detroit won 11-10 in the 10th on a walk-off hit by JaCoby Jones, which scored Nicholas Castellanos on a thrilling play at the plate. The Tigers rushed out of the dugout and onto the field to ce...
Pirates Prospect Pulls Off Gutsy Steal Of Home
There’s just one more day of regular spring training left, but there are still cool highlights to be had. Case in point: this sweet steal of home by Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Lolo Sanchez today, off a righty pitcher throwing from the stretch. The 18-year-old is among the organization’s top prospec...
MLBPA Files Grievance Against Four Teams For Being Cheap Bastards With Revenue-Sharing Money
Let us use the Rays as an example, because, hell, if the Rays didn’t want to be used as the poster team for hemorrhaging salary with no clear goal other than to shovel cash into its ownership’s maw, maybe they shouldn’t have so conspicuously nuked a roster that was five games out of a playoff spot....
Report: Pirates Catcher Elias Diaz's Mother Kidnapped In Venezuela
The Pirates have released a statement in response to reports that catcher Elias Diaz’s mother has been kidnapped in Venezuela:...
MLBPA Sends Limp-Dick Memo About Payroll Slashing, Is Summarily Shooed Off
Next winter will be the real bellwether for the state of MLB payroll spending—handwringing over shrinking payroll today might disappear all at once if the movement of next winter’s studs lifts all boats—but the early indicators of this winter are troubling. The hot stove is cool, there’s a boatload ...
Andrew McCutchen Meant Everything To Pittsburgh
Watch that clip up there. It says all there is to say about what Andrew McCutchen meant to Pirates fans in general, and to Pittsburgh in particular. For a long time, it was damn near impossible to imagine a Pirates player who possessed enough star power to affect young fans like that. Now that McCut...
The Gerrit Cole Deal Sure Looks Odd For Pittsburgh
The Pirates have been playing with the burners of the hot stove for weeks now over the possibility of a Gerrit Cole trade, and now that it’s finally happened, they have surprisingly little to show for it....
A Pirates Fan Talks To Francisco Cabrera, 25 Years After The Worst Game Ever
The idea, or part of it, was to tell Francisco Cabrera what he did to me. I wanted to let him know that the greatest moment of his otherwise anonymous big-league career was such a gut-punch in my life. I wanted to relate to him how funereal things were for me the next day at school, and how long tha...
John Jaso Likely To Retire, Live On Sailboat
John Jaso, the dreaded pirate-looking dude who plays for the Pirates, told reporters yesterday he is probably calling it a career now that the season is over and his contract is up. Better yet: He’s retiring from baseball to sail the seven seas. No piracy, hopefully....
Pittsburgh Pirates Try To Justify Giving Away Effective Reliever For Free
Reliever Juan Nicasio has been having a career-best season; in his second year with the Pirates, he’s striking out nearly 25 percent of batters with a 2.85 ERA. This week, Pittsburgh placed him on irrevocable waivers to let Philadelphia take him for absolutely nothing in return, so that, uh, they co...
Poor, Poor, Poor Rich Hill
Since making his weird and improbable return to major league baseball at age 35 in the second half of 2015, Rich Hill has been almost singularly enjoyable to watch when he’s a) in a groove and b) without a blister. He hasn’t had many outings like that lately, but when he has them, his curveball is b...
Pirates GM Says Jung Ho Kang Probably Won't Be Coming Back To The States
Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang might never come back to Major League Baseball as he still can’t get a work visa after admitting guilt and receiving a deferred prison sentence for a 2016 DUI in South Korea, Pirates GM Neal Huntington told MLB.com Sunday. Kang has been charged with three DUIs in K...