Pittsburgh Pirates

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,...

I love football in the snow. Always have. Watching two teams grind it out on a frozen field in January while guys can barely feel their hands is some of the best sports television you can find. The elements don’t ruin football. They make it. Cold weather baseball in April works the same way. You...

The Pittsburgh Pirates win 3-2 on a Nick Yorke walkoff double in the 9th inning and the best part is they did it on a day when nothing went clean. No home runs. Starter didn’t get deep. Bullpen had to bail them out. Still won. Baltimore had every opportunity to steal this game and the...

Konnor Griffin’s debut was today, and he walked up to the plate in the second inning of his, and he hit a double to center field. First at-bat. Kyle Bradish on the mound, a legitimate starter on a real big league staff, and Griffin ripped one to the gap like he’d been doing this for...

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...

I said it all winter and nobody wanted to hear it. The Pittsburgh Pirates season is two games old, they are 0-2, they just got walked off by Luis Robert Jr. in the 11th inning on a three-run shot off Hunter Barco, and every single person who spent the last three months telling me this...

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...

PNC Park food 2026 is exactly what you’d expect from a franchise that has finished under .500 six years running. While parks around the league are doing Kobe beef hot dogs with Luke’s Lobster, two-pound burgers stacked with braised short rib, and machete-sized quesadillas, the Pirates looked at Pittsburgh’s food culture and came back with…...

The Dodgers are going to win the World Series again, and most of the baseball world already knows it. They were the two-time defending champions before Opening Day even started, and then they went out and signed Kyle Tucker for $240 million and Edwin Diaz to close games. Nobody is stopping this team. But let...

Every winter, MLB teams start talking spicy. “We’re going to be aggressive.”“We have the resources.”“We know we have to do more.” If you are a Pirates fan, you have heard this monologue on loop. President Travis Williams says Bob Nutting has opened the wallet. Ben Cherington keeps dropping “aggressive offseason” buzzwords. Agents hear that Pittsburgh...