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First Pitch: At What Point is it Acceptable For the Pirates to Wave the White Flag?

The Pittsburgh Pirates were no-hit by the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night. On the other side, Domingo German allowed seven runs, six earned, in three...

First Pitch: The Positive Side of Young Player Inconsistencies Leads to a Pirates Win

The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 5-0 on Tuesday, led by five shutout innings from Paul Skenes. What I liked about this win was...

First Pitch: The Pirates Have Plenty of Rotation Depth to Trade For Offense This Offseason

On Saturday night, Luis Ortiz pitched the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 3-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians. Ortiz went six shutout innings, allowing one hit,...

First Pitch: The Pirates Have a Rare Opportunity With Their Closer Role

The Pittsburgh Pirates have a rare opportunity in the modern-day Major League Baseball. On Friday, Pirates manager Derek Shelton announced that David Bednar would be...

First Pitch: At a Certain Point, Inaction Becomes an Action In and Of Itself

German polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote of Nature: "There is constant life in her, motion and development; and yet she remains...

First Pitch: Pittsburgh Pirates Top 50 Prospect Rankings

At the start of this week, I released Version 4.0 of the Pittsburgh Pirates Top 50 Tiered Prospect Rankings. You can check out that...

First Pitch: The Pirates Made the Right Call Moving Oneil Cruz to Center Field

On Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced that they will be moving Oneil Cruz from shortstop to center field. The move is one that makes sense...

First Pitch: Grandal Walks It Off, Pirates Deal With Injuries, Termarr Johnson Promoted

Yasmani Grandal delivered a walk-off winner for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. Grandal came to the plate in the bottom of...

First Pitch: There Have Been Too Many Nights Like This For the Pirates in 2024

There are going to be nights like Saturday night in a long baseball season, where a team looks completely lost from the start. For...

First Pitch: Pirates Keep Winning Thanks to a Comeback By the Offense

There have been many games this year where the Pittsburgh Pirates would have been essentially finished after going down 5-0 in the early innings. Friday...

First Pitch: Bryan De La Cruz and Paul Skenes Lead the Pirates to a 7-0 Win

Bryan De La Cruz got off to a slow start after being acquired by the Pittsburgh Pirates at the trade deadline. De La Cruz went...

First Pitch: Whiff

The Pittsburgh Pirates lost 1-0 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, with their offense failing to show up in a game where the pitching...

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