Pirates/MLB category, Page 167

The Pittsburgh Pirates have reached the point of their season where it has become obvious they are the worst team in baseball — only for them to painfully prove it in different ways every game. The Cincinnati Reds found out the first time around the order would be enough, scoring...

With about nine months on the job and his first season as Pittsburgh Pirates general manager down to its final two weeks, Ben Cherington is getting a better sense of where the organization stands. “Better,” Cherington said. “Not complete.” The Pirates made a major move Sept. 1 by calling up...

The Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher whose fastball turned heads in spring training by touching triple digits is ready to make his major league debut, as Blake Cederlind was activated Tuesday from the taxi squad. The 6-foot-4 right-hander, who started the 2019 season in Class high-A Bradenton and finished it in Triple-A...

For the Pittsburgh Pirates, having the organization’s top two pitchers going through rehabilitation together could have been viewed as a disaster, as both were unavailable to pitch for the major league team. Instead, having Mitch Keller working alongside Jameson Taillon every day was nothing short of a revelation. The Pirates...

Just when it looked like the Cincinnati Reds wouldn’t have scored a run in their doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates without hitting a home run, they found a way to make it even worse. With the bases loaded, the Pirates gave up a walk, committed an error and threw a...

Derek Shelton wouldn’t go so far as to say the Pittsburgh Pirates are trying to create competition at certain positions, but the manager also didn’t deny there will be competition for starting jobs. “We’re not trying to artificially create it, but there will be competition for the end of the...

Bothered by a blister and a cuticle, Chad Kuhl had no command on his fastball from the start, and it didn’t take long for the Pittsburgh Pirates to watch their game against the Kansas City Royals spin out of control. What transpired was a comedy of errors and their biggest...

Mitch Keller will make his first start for the Pittsburgh Pirates in six weeks on Monday, when the right-hander pitches in the second game of a doubleheader at the Cincinnati Reds. Keller (1-1, 3.52 ERA) will face the Reds’ Anthony DeSclafani (1-2, 7.20), after Pirates right-hander Cody Ponce (1-1, 3.46)...

Despite missing batting practice after a delayed arrival to Kauffman Stadium, the Pittsburgh Pirates came out swinging and hit three solo home runs in the first three innings. When the Kansas City Royals punched back, Pirates starter Trevor Williams got knocked out. The right-hander couldn’t protect a two-run lead and...

Ke’Bryan Hayes was off to a hot start to his major league career, so the Pittsburgh Pirates wasted no time to move him into a run-producing role in the lineup. After the son of major leaguer Charlie Hayes showed his top-prospect pedigree in his first seven games, Pirates manager Derek...

After 12 seasons in the major leagues, Neil Walker’s major league career could be coming to a close. The 35-year-old Pine-Richland alum and former Pittsburgh Pirates first-round draft pick, one of the cornerstones for the franchise turnaround that led to three consecutive wild-card playoff berths, was designated for assignment Friday...

If the Pittsburgh Pirates need a theme for the remainder of their season, it should be this: No days off. The Pirates (14-27) start the final stretch of the shortened season Friday night at Kansas City. They will play 19 games in 17 days, including doubleheaders at Cincinnati and against...

Friday’s “First Call” starts with Penguins defenseman Kris Letang. He wants some clarity about his future. New York Giants coach Joe Judge wants his players more focused before Monday night’s game against the Steelers. And former Pirate pitcher Gerrit Cole wants to avoid home runs. • • • Letang update:...

When Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton said Thursday was the most important day of Mitch Keller’s rehabilitation from an oblique injury, it wasn’t based on how the right-hander performed. Instead, the focus is on how Keller feels the day after throwing a three-inning, 43-pitch live batting practice session at PNC...

John Wehner was used to living out of a suitcase six months each year from March to October. For 11 years as a player, nine with the Pirates, and 15 as one of the Bucs broadcasters, Wehner flew with the team on chartered planes to different cities, checking into the...

Caught up in the pageantry of celebrating Roberto Clemente Day and what it meant to Puerto Rico and the Pittsburgh Pirates, Derek Shelton shared that it felt like a national holiday. Then the Pirates rookie manager worried about whether his team would take the night off, focusing more on wearing...

From blowing a four-run lead in the ninth inning of the home opener to a weird wild pitch to a controversial foul-pole home run in extra innings to a no-hitter, the Pittsburgh Pirates have found so many weird ways to lose games this season that it became exasperating. Rookie manager...

Kevin Newman came to bat in the ninth inning against the Chicago White Sox in an ideal situation for someone with his track record of delivering walk-off wins: Bases loaded and no outs. “It’s a good spot to be in with a tie ballgame,” Newman said. “Just went up there...