Can We Get A COMON?
By Joe Smeltzer The 20th season of PNC Park should have been celebrated last year, and since the season ended up taking place, I guess, in a way, it did. Since there were no fans and the season was the most screwed-up baseball ever has (and hopefully ever will) see, I don’t count it. Besides, PNC Park opened in 2001,
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By Joe Smeltzer I thought the Pirates fired Neal Huntington last winter. They probably did. But Ben Cherington’s quote earlier this week made it feel like the ghost of GMNH still floats around Allegheny County. Maybe Cherington, for some reason, wanted to pay tribute to his predecessor by giving reporters an idiotic sound byte. Maybe Huntington snuck into Cherington’s brain,
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By COMON Network Team Final Score – Pittsburgh Pirates (7-17) 5, Milwaukee Brewers (11-15) 2 WP: Chris Stratton (1-0) LP: David Phelps (2-3) SV: Richard Rodriguez (1) A two-run blast from Gregory Polanco in the eighth inning was the difference as the Pirates completed a three-game sweep of Milwaukee, 5-4, Sunday afternoon at PNC Park. Pittsburgh struck first with single runs in the
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By COMON Network Team Final Score – Pittsburgh Pirates (3-10) 6, Minnesota Twins (10-3) 5 WP: Sam Howard (1-0) – 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K – 18 pitches, 13 strikes LP: Taylor Rogers (1-1) – 0.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R/ER, 0 BB, 1 K – 15 pitches, 10 strikes SV: N/A The Pirates flipped
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