Oneil Cruz

The five-game win streak is over, the Padres handed the Pirates a 5-0 shutout Monday night at PNC Park, and the most honest conversation we need to be having right now is about this outfield. Not the bullpen. Not the lineup depth. The Pirates outfield defense. Because it is bad, it was bad before Monday,...

Oneil Cruz went 5-for-13 with three home runs and six RBIs across three games in Cincinnati, and the Pirates beat the Reds in two of them by the exact same score both times. Pittsburgh came into this series at 1-2 after getting embarrassed by the Mets on Opening Day and left at 3-3 with their...

The Pirates offense finally looked like what this roster was built to be. Four home runs, eight runs, an 8-3 final in Cincinnati the night after getting shutout by Chase Burns and looking like they would never score again. Bryan Reynolds and Oneil Cruz both went deep, and when those two are in the home...

Sorry I’m a little late on this one. I was busy watching a team that actually wins. Penguins business. But I’m back now, and apparently I didn’t miss a damn thing worth celebrating, because the Pittsburgh Pirates offense just got shut out at one of the most hitter-friendly ballparks in baseball. Four games into a...

The Pittsburgh Pirates avoid sweep of the opening series, win their first game of 2026, and get out of New York with something to build on. Final score 4-3 in ten innings at Citi Field on Sunday. Carmen Mlodzinski was the best Pirate on the field, Brandon Lowe hit another home run, and a relay...

The Pirates Opening Day loss was 11-5 and if you watched that first inning, you already know the season is going to require a lot of patience. We were told this was a different team. We were told the pitching was the foundation that would carry them. What we actually watched was Paul Skenes get...