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David Wright goes cold as Mets squeeze by Pirates
Posted on 22 May 2012 by Aryn Ouellette.
Tuesday night's game between the New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates wasn't kind to third basemen, David Wright. Wright, who has been on fire since the season has begun, went 0-4, with three strike outs in the Mets win. Scoring started in the second inning when Mets catcher, Mike Nickeas singled, scoring Daniel Murphy. Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen, who went 2-4, tied the game up...
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Brandon Wood Should Get His Opportunity to Start This Week
Posted on 24 Apr 2011 by Justin Welton.
Brandon Wood Brandon Wood should get his opportunity to show what he has to offer sometime this week. Tomorrow would be ideal. I don’t know if we will actually see him, but I think it would be perfect. The game isn’t televised in the Pittsburgh market because the Penguins will be playing. This might relieve a little bit of the pressure that may be on the 26-year old. He will be facing a...
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So far, off to a bad start
Posted on 4 Apr 2011 by Paul Jackson.
Opening weekend didn’t go as planned for the Cubs. One would think starting the season facing the Pirates and the Diamondbacks would be beneficial to your team’s chances of starting off on the right foot. Think again. The Cubs let a good start slip away in Game 1 of the series. Up 2-0 in the top of the 5th, Ryan Doumit led off the inning with a Single for the Pirates. After a ground out by ...
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Pirates: The Official Pittsburgh Pirates Preview
Posted on 30 Mar 2011 by Michael Waterloo.
Pittsburgh, the City of Champions, as we Pittsburgh sports fans like to call it. The Steelers and their six 6 Super Bowl trophies. The Penguins and their three Stanley Cup wins. Pitt basketball, the reigning Big East regular-season champions. Then, you have the Pirates. With 18 consecutive losing seasons, the Pirates are out of place with these other teams, and often out of mind amids...
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2011 MLB Preview: Looking at Andrew McCutchen and the Pittsburgh Pirates on Paper
Posted on 29 Mar 2011 by Adrian Fedkiw.
The Pirates are in the midst of 18 consecutive losing seasons, and that number will most likely hit 19 after this season. They scored the fewest runs in the NL last season, and also gave up the most. That equaled to a minus-279 run differential. There are glimmers of hope, and it starts with Andrew McCutchen, the best center fielder in baseball. They also have some other young studs in P...
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Pirates Announce Rotation, Lineup
Posted on 27 Mar 2011 by Justin Welton.
The Pirates announced the starting rotation and lineup for opening day this past week. The starting rotation looks like this: Kevin Correia Paul Maholm Ross Ohlendorf Charlie Morton James McDonald I don’t know too many people who are willing to say that this rotation is close to average but there is some potential. Maholm could finally breakout and have a good season. Ohlendorf had a horrib...
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Pirates Preview
Posted on 23 Mar 2011 by Justin Welton.
The only place the Pittsburgh Pirates can go is up if you think about it. 57-105 was the Pirates record last season which was the worst in Major League Baseball. How could they not improve on that this season? Clint Hurdle is taking over for John Russell as Pirates manager. People say that a team will reflect the personality of the coach and that is what happened during the Russell era. He is s...
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Pittsburgh Pirates season recap
Posted on 4 Oct 2010 by Jim Keller.
The Skinny: The Pirates finished the season 57-105, their most losses during the 162-game era, one more than the 1985 edition. The most losses by a Pirates team was 112 in 1954. … The 105 losses is the most in the major leagues since the Arizona Diamondbacks lost 111 games in 2004. The Detroit Tigers dropped 119 games in 2003, the most in this decade. … Pittsburgh fini...









