The Pirates had a lot of firsts in this game, the first rain delay, the first piggyback start, the first blown save, the first extra inning action and finally we saw the honeymoon for Derek Shelton at least come back to Earth a bit.
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Pirates Open the Home Schedule Against the Brewers
The Home Opener. Here we are on July 27th, and we’re talking about the home opener. Its another casualty of 2020, and the typical buzz on Federal Street won’t come.
Playing for Their Jobs?
With limited viable options and make no mistake that is very much on this regime, I believe the cuts will be pretty obvious.
Williams Struggles While Wainwright Takes Him to School
As soon as the lineup was announced today, I had questions, and believe it or not why is Tucker in Right Field wasn’t one of them. I mainly questioned benching Jose Osuna after a nice two hit game last night from the DH spot.
Opening Day, Pirates Predictions for 2020
Final Pre-Season record prediction for the Pirates
Blinded by Their Own
Before the Pirates latest contest against the Indians in Cleveland on Sunday, I decided to watch some MLB network and I was pleasantly surprised to see Joe Musgrove was going to be interviewed about being named the opening day starter for the Bucs.
A Tale of Two Exhibitions Pirates fall 11-7 to the Indians
t’s early, hell it doesn’t even count yet, but pitching remains an issue for your Pittsburgh Pirates. It donned on me sometime in the 6th that unless you count Brault and Kuhl, the Bucs have yet to have a reliever toss a scoreless frame.
Shouldn’t the Pirates be Answering Questions Instead of Creating New Ones? Maybe Not.
Heading into this restart the Pirates had a laundry list of questions to answer, that doesn’t make them unique, most teams face plenty of unknowns and position battles, but the Pirates list seems to be growing rather than coming to resolution.
Cole Tucker, Outfield Prospect?
On Saturday the Pirates GM Ben Cherington confirmed that we weren’t just seeing Cole Tucker shag flies for fun, instead the club plans to give him some time out there and more so this isn’t some long-range project, they plan to use him there soon.
Pirates Are Up a Crick, if He Keeps Pitching Like That. Bucs Fall 5-3
Much of the game saw promising performances, Joe Musgrove pitched three scoreless and struck out five on the way. More importantly he looked unhittable doing it, mixing his pitches masterfully while Jacob Stallings stole 7 by my count strikes off the plate to make it even better.
Steel City Pirates 