In my long life, I remember this day more or less precisely: Sept. 7, 1958. Exactly 67 years ago, I sat in the stands at Forbes Field on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon with my dad and brother, an uncle and a cousin, and two companionable acquaintances. We witnessed a baseball doubleheader ...
Let’s pretend for a minute that it’s October 1960. I’m sitting in the dining room doing my sixth-grade homework while my dad bemoans the fact that it has been 35 years since the Pittsburgh Pirates won a World Series. That fact didn’t mean much to me: I was 11, and in my view the Pirates ...
NEW YORK — Alex Verdugo hit a go-ahead, two-run single with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth inning and the New York Yankees ended the regular season with a 6-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday. Struggling for most of the second half, Verdugo snapped a 4-all tie by ...
PITTSBURGH — Willy Adames secured his first 30-20 season in the Milwaukee Brewers' 7-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. Adames stole second after an infield single, his first of two hits, with one out in the second inning. It was the 20th stolen base for the seven-year ...
CINCINNATI — Paul Skenes struck out nine and pitched two-hit ball through five innings, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. Skenes (11-3) recorded his 16th game with seven or more strikeouts, surpassing Larry McWilliams (1983) for seventh-most by ...
PITTSBURGH — Isiah Kiner-Falefa had three hits, including a go-ahead single in the fifth inning, as the Pittsburgh Pirates avoided a three-game sweep with a 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Billy Cook lined a single to left to start the fifth and scored from first on a hit and ...
