PITTSBURGH 鈥� Andrew McCutchen insists there is no extra pressure on the Pirates in facing the hottest pitcher in baseball in an elimination game.鈥淭here is pressure on everyone at this time of the year, it蘑菇视频 no different for us than every other team that蘑菇视频 still playing,鈥� the star ...
PITTSBURGH --- Gerrit Cole will face the hottest pitcher in the major leagues in the National League wild-card game.Yet, the Pirates right-hander couldn鈥檛 be more excited about facing the Chicago Cubs鈥� Jake Arrieta on Wednesday night at PNC Park in a single-game elimination setting.Arrieta ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� It is certainly something difficult to take for the Pirates.They have the second-best record in the major leagues at 96-63. Yet they won鈥檛 be one of the six teams that win a division title.The St. Louis Cardinals (100-59) clinched the National League Central title and ...
The Pirates return home to wrap up the regular season tonight with at least a shot of winning the National League Central.FanGraphs rated the Pirates鈥� chances of overtaking the St. Louis Cardinals and capturing the division crown at 10.7 percent entering Sunday蘑菇视频 play while Baseball ...
Two of the more difficult aspects of baseball to quantify are defense and base running, though sabermetricians have come up with metrics in recent years through their study of advanced data.Defensive runs saved (DRS) is a statistic calculated by Baseball Info Solutions that rates players as ...
Hard to believe now but there was a time in April when a certain segment of fans and media were calling for the Pirates to change closers.That was back on April 21 when Mark Melancon blew a save against the Chicago Cubs at PNC Park. It marked the second in eight days he had allowed three runs ...
