Baseball is a sport that evolves constantly.The game can look drastically different than what it looked like in years, months or even days previous.That axiom has proven most true when it comes to power numbers. Gone are the days of the McGwiire/Sosa era. Those gaudy home run numbers are nearly ...
Baseball is a sport that evolves constantly.The game can look drastically different than what it looked like in years, months or even days previous.That axiom has proven most true when it comes to power numbers. Gone are the days of the McGwire/Sosa era. Those gaudy home run numbers are nearly ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� Tuesday, the Pittsburgh Steelers鈥� rookie class got a break from organized team activities and headed across town to PNC Park to take in the Pirates鈥� batting practice.It was a fun day for the rookies, who got to spend time on the other side, watching other athletes put their ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� The Arizona Diamondbacks had a plane to catch. The Pirates didn鈥檛 seem to want to let them leave.The Diamondbacks eventually prevailed, 6-5, in 14 innings, but the Pirates made them earn it, twice coming from behind late in an over seven-hour game from start to finish.In both ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� Andrew McCutchen hit a walk-off home run as the Pirates completed a comeback and won 4-3 in a back-and-forth game with the Arizona Diamondbacks Monday afternoon at PNC Park.McCutchen hit his eighth home run of the season to win the game in the ninth after closer Tony Watson blew ...
One offensive metric to rule them all?Sometimes I wonder if there are too many baseball statistics.That thought has nothing to do with sabermetrics. One can look at the back of any baseball card from older eras of the game and see a stat-line as long as the card. Those cards and those ...
