For the second time this month the Pirates managed to take 2 of 3 from the Chicago Cubs, this time it was on the road.  With these 2 wins the Pirates currently sit at 6-3, which is good enough for 2nd place in the NL Central behind the Milwaukee Brewers....

This past weekend we saw the Pirates take 2 of 3 from a very good St. Louis Cardinals team, with the Pirates getting quality starting pitching performances from Gerrit Cole and newcomer Edinson Volquez in games 1 and 3 of the series.  The Pirates will...

The Pirates managed to take two of three from the Chicago Cubs in the opening series of the 2014 season, and currently sit tied for first place in the NL Central with the St. Louis Cardinals. Opening Day saw Francisco Liriano dazzle the Cubs hitters...

They’re back.  After the shortest offseason in the past 20 years, the Pirates return for the 2014 season as they try to follow up their successful 2013 campaign, in which we saw them finish 94-68 and make it to the NLCS before losing to the St. Louis...

It’s time to ride or die with the Cole Train.  After getting embarrassed in Game 1, the Pirates won Game 2 in St. Louis and Game 3 in Pittsburgh before losing Game 4 to force a Game 5 with the Cardinals.  In this elimination game manager Clint Hurdle...

In what was the most significant game in PNC Park history, Francisco Liriano and the Pirates put on for a record crowd as the trumped the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 in the NL Wild Card Game. With over 40,00 fans on hand, the Pirates did exactly what they...

For the first time in PNC Park history there will be a playoff game being played.  At 8:07 PM tonight, the Pirates will be taking on the Cincinnati Reds in the NL Wild Card game to see who will advance to take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the National...

Three games.  That is all that is left to the 2013 regular season for the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Currently the Pirates sit at 91-68, three games behind the NL Central Division leading St. Louis Cardinals and one game ahead of the Cincinnati Reds going...

In a year filled with numerous achievements and milestones, what’s one more?  After a 2-1 victory over the Cubs last night, thanks to a Starling Marte solo-homer in the 9th inning and a Washington Nationals’ loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Pittsburgh...

After getting win number 82 on September 9th, the Pirates finished off the sweep of the Rangers and took three of four from the Cubs before they dropped three of four to the San Diego Padres and two of three this weekend to the rival Reds.  All this...

After securing a .500 season last night with a 4-3 win over the Brewers, the Pirates have a chance tonight to make even more history as they go for win number 82.  Again, it would be the first time the feat will be done since 1992. Basically take...

20 years.  It has been 20 straight years of losing baseball in Pittsburgh and it could all come to a highly anticipated ending tonight as the Pirates look to continue their recent success, having won four of their last six.  After taking two of three...

Just when everybody thought GM Neil Huntington was done wheeling and dealing this summer, he pulls off another key trade to bolster this Pirates team.  Earlier this afternoon, the Pirates acquired Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau in exchange...

After splitting a four game series out west with the Giants and losing the first game of this series with the Brewers last night, the Pirates will get a shot in the arm with the additions of outfielder Marlon Byrd and catcher John Buck, as GM Neil Huntington...

In yesterday’s post, I looked at the vast differences between the embarrassment that was the Pirates’ farm system when GM Neal Huntington took over towards the end of the 2007 season, and the Pirates current farm system, a system of young, extremely...

The date is August 21, 2013, and the Pirates are in first place in the NL Central with a record of 74-51.  That’s 23 games over .500 for those who struggle with math.  But that isn’t the important part; the important part is that the Pirates would...

After losing seven of their last nine, the Pirates again turned to recent staff ace Francisco Liriano to get everything back on course and he did not disappoint.  With the run support being supplied by Pedro’s 31st bomb and a costly error by Padres’...

After getting swept in Colorado last weekend, the Pirates went into St. Louis looking to get back to their winning ways and create even more separation between them and the rest of the NL Central.  That wasn’t the case. Tuesday night we saw Charlie...

After literally getting beaten up by the Rockies, the Pirates decided to makes a couple of roster moves as they head into St. Louis for 3 games starting on Tuesday. In Saturday’s 6-4 loss to Colorado, we saw Pedro Alvarez get cleated on the back...

The non-waiver trade deadline came and went Wednesday without the Pirates front office making a much talked about trade to try and bolster this team down the stretch.  Some people preached about team chemistry at the deadline, while others made their...

With tomorrow’s 4:00 PM trade deadline fast approaching, General Manager Neal Huntington will be on his phone more than a 16-year-old teenage girl over the next 24 hours.  And rightfully so, as him and the rest of the front office will be busy deciding...

In last night’s 6-5 win over the Washington Nationals, we saw two very telling things concerning this Pirates team. One being Andrew McCutchen is really turning it on of late, going 10 for his last 24 Abs with 5 homeruns.  And there is something wrong...

A lot has happened this summer in regards to Pirates’ baseball and unfortunately a busy summer has kept me from blogging about it.  However, I’ll do my best to bring you up to speed on the magic that has happened in Pittsburgh over the past several...

It has been a couple days since the Pirates’ series against the Cardinals’ ended, but I think that with everything that has gone on in Boston over the past few days, this will help everyone get back up to speed on where the Pirates are at the moment. Monday’s...

After being blown out in the last game of the Arizona series and losing Wandy Rodriguez for at least one start, it seemed like the Pirates were in for a rough series against the NL Central powerhouse Reds. Friday’s game had AJ Burnett going against...

After an embarrassing showing in Hollywood over the weekend, the Pirates went into Arizona with hopes of being able to put up a fight this week.  And that is just what they did as they won the first 2 games of the series before imploding in the series...

The Pirates’ struggles continued this weekend, as they traveled out to Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers and were promptly swept in the 3 game series.   While many “fans” think it’s time to press the panic button, the fact that it is only 6...

What started out to look like a day in the middle of December, Opening Day eventually began to look like a usual Opening Day in Pittsburgh, weather-wise that is.  Being there first hand, you could feel the buzz in the sold out stadium as AJ Burnett took...

With the Pittsburgh Pirates beginning their 2013 campaign tomorrow afternoon against the Chicago Cubs, I feel like this is a great time to start writing for this blog again.  After a long offseason, I’ll do my best to bring you up to speed on where...

Perhaps one of the most consistent players from the 2012 season, Neil Walker has given Hurdle and Huntington a legitimate second baseman for the first time since I guess Freddy Sanchez.  While Sanchez didn’t blossom into the batting champion he was...

Before I review anymore of the Pirates’ 2012 season I wanted to apologize for the long break since my last post.  My first semester of college started to catch up to me.  However, lets get back to our beloved Buccos and continue the position-by-position...

I’m going to start this post by saying that the Pirates have not had a “real” catcher since Jason Kendall was traded by the one and only, Dave Littlefield.  Since then, it has been a revolving door behind the plate, as the Pirates have had 17 different...

Now that a few days have gone by and the Pirates are sitting on their couches watching the MLB postseason, as am I, it’s time to look back and examine what went right and what went wrong in the 2012 season in Pittsburgh.  But mainly what went wrong. I’ve...

That is all she wrote, the 2012 season is over in Pittsburgh as the Pirates finished up their 20th consecutive losing season this afternoon with a 4-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves in Chipper Jones’ last regular season game of his career.  Game 162 didn’t...

For the first time in almost a month the Pirates won back-to-back games with their 2-1 win yesterday and 5-1 victory today over the Atlanta Braves.  Yes, it is nice to see that Pirates remembered how to win baseball games.  However, if they would have...

I’m not exactly sure how to start this blog post because well I never thought I was going to have to blog about the Pirates losing 82 games this season, at least up until the beginning of this month.  Then the thought started to cross my mind.  But...

And that will do it for the 2012 Pittsburgh Pirates.  After their 6-0 loss last night to the Mets, they were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.  So at least one streak will continue, as the Pirates will miss out on the postseason for...

While just about every story that focuses on the Pirates in the news of late has the word “collapse” somewhere in it, a word that hasn’t been used that often recently will be used in this one.  That word is victory.  Last night the Pirates took...

I went home for the weekend and was away from my computer for a couple days, so I’m going to do my best to make sense of this atrocious weekend of Pirates baseball. After being swept by the Brewers and allowing them to creep back into the playoff...

It seems like every blog I post starts with something about the Pirates doing the exact opposite of what they should do if they want to get in to the playoffs.  Why should this one be any different?  Losing the first two games of this series to the...

After the game finally started at 11:42 p.m. last night after a 3 hour and 37 minute rain delay, the Pirates were able to split the series with the Cubs with a 3-0 victory in a game that could possibly set the tone for this series starting tonight against...

The 7-6 win on Saturday was a huge victory for the Pirates, but it was really all for not as the Pirates’ bullpen blew another lead on Sunday in the 13-9 loss.   Another good start from Wandy, who has pitched extremely well in his last 5 starts, and...

Every loss from here on out really hurts the Pirates, primarily because there are less than three weeks left in the season and the Pirates still have a slight chance of making the playoffs.  Yesterday’s 7-4 loss to the Cubs hurts even more than most...

This is it.  The Pirates have 20 games in 20 days starting this afternoon at 2:20 p.m. in Chicago against the Cubs.  If there is any chance of the Pirates saving this season it begins today with James McDonald taking the hill and pitching the way he...

Well that just about does it.  After last night’s 2-1 loss to the Reds the Pirates can close the book on what looked to be a historical season.  Instead, the Pirates were swept by the Reds and are now just two games over .500 at 72-70. AJ Burnett...

Five games.  The Pirates have lost five straight games after last night’s 5-3 loss, going 2-8 in their last ten games, and are now just three games over .500.  And yes this is, for the most part, the exact same team that was 63-47 roughly a month...

After what looked to be a game that was in the bag for Wandy Rodriguez, the Pirates once again showed why they just can’t keep up with certain teams in the league, mainly all of them of late, as the team lost 4-3 in 14 innings to the Reds last night. Wandy...

After probably the worst homestand of the season, the Pirates’ lives get even tougher as they head out on the road for a three game series starting tonight against the NL Central leading Cincinnati Reds. What better way to start what could be the...

This series was absolutely miserable.  The pitching was average, the offense was nonexistent to say the least, and the defense was completely terrible in the second game of the series. Jeff Locke continued to show that he is prone to giving up the...

The title says it all really because its's at the point in the year where there really are not that many games left.  If the Pirates get swept by the Cubs today and finish the home stand with a 1-5 record, some reevaluating needs to be done.  The lineup,...

This is really starting to get out of hand lately and if Hurdle and the rest of the team don’t figure something out before the start of tomorrow’s game, they can forget about a Wild Card spot.  Tonight’s game wasn’t as bad as last night’s,...

With the minor league baseball season finishing up this week, MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo posted an updated version of the top 100 prospects among baseball.  Pirates’ fans have plenty to cheer about as six players from the team’s farm system cracked...

Another game against a sub-.500 team, another Pirates’ victory as the Pirates knocked around the Astros’ pitchers in a 6-3 win as they try to close in on a Wild Card spot. Behind the quality start of Kevin Correia, who went six innings and gave...

Anyone who pays even the slightest bit of attention to the Pirates should get accustomed to hearing a new name, at least through the rest of the season. That new name is Brock Holt. At the beginning of the season only a few fans had probably heard of...