PITTSBURGH (AP) 鈥� Clint Hurdle鈥檚 advice to his players on how to handle R.A. Dickey鈥檚 dancing, darting knuckleball was pretty simple: don鈥檛 overthink it and don鈥檛 try to be a hero.The Pittsburgh Pirates manager didn鈥檛 have to tell Gregory Polanco twice. Polanco picked up three of ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� The Pittsburgh Pirates scored five runs, and needed every one of them, as they hung on for a 5-4 Opening Day victory over the Atlanta Braves on Friday afternoon at PNC Park.Pittsburgh (1-2) opened its season on Monday with a 5-3 setback in Boston, and fell to 0-2 when it lost, ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� It was cold but Josh Harrison liked it.The Pirates second baseman enjoyed playing in what some may describe as not being 鈥渂aseball weather.鈥濃�淚t is baseball weather because we had to play in it,鈥� Harrison said. 鈥淚f it wasn鈥檛 baseball weather the game would have been ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� Pittsburgh鈥檚 David Freese is ready to rock 鈥榥鈥� roll.The nine-year MLB veteran has started the season for the Pirates at third base in place of Jung Ho Kang, who is still trying to get into the country after facing DUI charges in his native South Korea. There is no telling ...
If you look up the 2016 New York Yankees starting rotation on Opening Day, you won鈥檛 find Ivan Nova鈥檚 name. Nova, who had made 113 starts in the first six years of his Yankees career, had been relegated to the bullpen after sporting a 5.07 ERA in 2015.This year, he鈥檒l start in Pittsburgh ...
The Pirates finished the 2016 season with a 78-83 record, slipping below the .500 threshold and missing the postseason for the first time since 2012.Tasked with making improvements to get the franchise back to October baseball, General Manager Neal Huntington took a measured approach that will ...
