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PITTSBURGH — From the moment Anthony Rizzo changed course on his way to home plate in the eighth inning Monday, any sports fan (or human being) could predict the likely postgame reaction. The Cubs were going to say Rizzo’s takeout of Elias Díaz was fine. The Pirates were going to say it wasn’t. Chalk one […]

PITTSBURGH – To borrow from a business-school cliché, it took Jake Arrieta 27 years to become an overnight success. The former top-100 prospect, the Olympian who dominated college and the minors, was a Major League flop. Arrieta had gotten chance after chance in Baltimore, and opponents flattened him to the tune of a 5.46 career ERA and more […]

PITTSBURGH – Well, at least fewer people saw this loss against the Cubs than the last one. That represents a thinly veiled attempt at context for the Pirates’ 7-2 home loss Monday night to the Chicago Cubs, their first crack at them since the 2015 Wild Card Game. In every year previous to this, a May loss to […]

PITTSBURGH – I feel bad bringing it up, but hey, every other media member did it today: the 2015 Wild Card Game. You know those unpleasant memories you have of Jake Arrieta slicing through the Pirates lineup? Well, Arrieta, do you remember? “When you bring it up, yeah,” Arrieta said. In Don Draper fashion, Pirates […]

The Chicago Cubs have hired Joe Maddon to be their next manager, according to Jon Heyman. joe maddon to become cubs manager. story up soon at @CBSSports — Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) October 29, 2014 When Maddon left the Rays last week, it was speculated that he could join the Cubs, especially after teams like the […]

Five innings into Saturday’s contest, the Pirates couldn’t seem to solve Chicago starter Scott Baker. After six, the Pirates still hadn’t solved him. But Jose Tabata hit a solo home run in the sixth off Baker to tie the game, and Marlon Byrd went deep to right-center field off reliever James Russell in the seventh […]

Charlie Morton’s return from Tommy John surgery in June has without a doubt been a shot in the arm of the Pirates’ rotation, a group that has seen every single one of its starters from Opening Day spend time off the mound due to injury. Since he made his first start of the season June […]

Despite hitting back-to-back-to-back solo home runs for the first time in Pittsburgh in 58 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates lost 5-4 to the Chicago Cubs Friday night. The three consecutive home runs at home was the first occurrence of such a feat since July 6, 1955, and the first time it happened at PNC Park. Pittsburgh […]

The month of August was a challenging one for Jeff Locke, to say the least. He finished winless in the month, and with a 8.02 ERA. In fact, the entire second half of 2013 had been the polar opposite for the Pirates’ lefty after he earned an All-Star nod in the season’s first half. Thursday, […]