Gary Morgan

You Don’t Need Permission to Enjoy these Pirates

Your Pirates are making you proud, for once, let yourself stop worrying about how they got there, where it might go, who did or said what on the way.

Pirates Stay Sharp, Muscle Past Tough Reds Pitching Performance; Win 4-2 (14-7)

4-21-23 – By Gary Morgan – @garymo2007 on Twitter How many times do you hear it’s all about the pitching? You know, like, you’re only as good as your next day’s starter. It’s cliche for sure but 11 straight games the rotation has provided a quality start. By definition, that’s 3 runs or fewer, andContinue reading “Pirates Stay Sharp, Muscle Past Tough Reds Pitching Performance; Win 4-2 (14-7)”

Hump Day Pirates Q&A

When you do a feature like this every week, it’s inevitable the questions will start to overlap, or get repetitive. To your credit, it hasn’t happened a whole lot here. You keep challenging me with interesting topics, I’ll keep happily doing this piece. Deal?

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five

Ahh, Manfred ball giveth, and it taketh away. Nobody knows how to play the situation. I see teams get the run in the top of the 10th then just about go for conceding the tying run in the bottom half.

Cards Blank Bucs 3-0, Oviedo Sparkles for Pittsburgh: (8-6)

Bucs fall 3-0 to the Red Birds, but Oviedo stole the show.

Hump Day Pirates Q&A

Busy week, and many of these questions came in before the Cruz injury, which is good, because the first thing that happens following something like that is nobody is capable of thinking past it.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five

I sincerely doubt there are many of you out there who thought the Pirates would at this point have a 6-3 record. I bet there are even fewer who thought that record was achievable after starting 1-2 against the supposed to be bad Reds.

Pirates Fans Pack the House, Pirates Bats Pack the Scoreboard Winning 13-9 in the Home Opener (5-2)

No seriously, how do I begin to describe everything I saw and felt today at PNC Park? No matter what, this was never going to be about one player’s performance, or the outcome on this one day, it was always going to be about this team, this ballpark, this city and the way they all fit together into one incredible thing that only Baseball can create.

Dauri Moreta Has Been Money, Can He Continue on This Path?

If the Pirates can get his precision to match his intensity, they might just have a reliable bullpen arm through the end of the decade.

Hump Day Pirates Q&A

The Pirates have pushed back in this series against the Red Sox after a disappointing opening series in Cincy. Nothing will help you take the pulse of a fan base by putting out an open call for questions.