While no Pittsburgh sports teams brought home titles in 2015, there were still a lot of happenings on and off the field. From athletes returning to Pittsburgh, record breaking performances, late-season let downs and the protest of a quarterback, Pittsburgh Sporting News is counting down the top 10 sports stories in Pittsburgh in 2015. The first half includes stories 10 thru six. No. 10 – Gung Ho for Jung Ho When the Pittsburgh Pirates signed Jung Ho Kang to a four-year, $11 million ... Read More
At least Pittsburgh isn’t Cleveland
City of bridges, city of champions. That's Pittsburgh for you. Well, for a national broadcast, you can't forget about the incline that is shown each game. Really, it's easy money if you're a betting man or woman. And those national broadcasts happen often for Pittsburgh because of the success of its three teams. You know who they don't happen often for? The city of Cleveland. Let me preface this by saying this isn't a Cleveland-hate post. I actually enjoy the city quite a bit, and actively ... Read More
4-run eighth leads Columbus over Indy in Governor’s Cup
The Indians of Indianapolis took on the Triple-A affiliate of Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians, the Columbus Clippers, in Game 1 of the Governors' Cup Championship Series in Columbus. Indianapolis advanced to the championship series by way of sweeping in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 3-0 in a best-of-five game semifinal series. The Clippers earned their opportunity to face the Indians by defeating the Norfolk Tide 3-2 in their best-of-five series. Sharing identical records ... Read More
The rise and fall of the doubleheader
The Pittsburgh Pirates will play their first doubleheader of the year today against the Chicago Cubs, their third in as many years. Doubleheaders used to be as synonymous with baseball as hot dog cannons, bobbleheads and the seventh-inning stretch, but have long since faded from the game. The death of the doubleheader is nothing new to baseball, as they have mostly been used to make up a game that was postponed or suspended for generations. Many games get stacked on the same day as opposed to ... Read More
Farm report: Pirates affiliates go 2-1 on Thursday
With four of the Pirates minor league teams in the playoffs, let's check in on them to see how they did on Thursday. Indianapolis Indians- Triple-A The Indianapolis Indians played host to Game 2 in their opening round Governors’ Cup playoff series in front of 3,706 faithful fans at Victory Field. Taking the mound in Game 2 for the Indians against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders was Vance Worley. Worley only needed 91 pitches to get through eight innings of work against the ... Read More
Players traded from Pirates at deadline have yet to show much
You have to give to get. And in baseball, sometimes what a team gives up is worth more than what they got in return. But that has not been the case for the Pittsburgh Pirates this season. Prior to the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline, the Pirates acquired Aramis Ramirez, Joakim Soria, J.A. Happ, Joe Blanton and Michael Morse. Given up were prospects Yhonathan Barrios, Adrian Sampson and JaCoby Jones, veteran Jose Tabata and cash. It is easy to declare which team wins a certain trade ... Read More
Pirates take three of four from Marlins with 2-1 win
The Pittsburgh Pirates took three of four games with its 2-1 victory against the Miami Marlins Thursday. This victory gives the Pirates 28 one-run victories on the season. Gerrit Cole [15-7] won his first game since July 26. The 7.1 innings he threw were a high in August starts. Cole's biggest obstacle came in the bottom of the third inning when Francisco Cervelli was ejected by home plate umpire Alan Porter. Cervelli disagreed with a pitch that was ruled a ball as it was ruled a strike to ... Read More
POLL: Which game are you watching tonight?
With the Pirates and the Steelers both playing tonight, will you be watching the Pirates battle the Dodgers on Sunday Night Baseball, or will your attention be on the Steelers in their preseason opener and Hall of Fame Game against the Vikings? [poll id="143"] ... Read More
Several top prospects could join Pirates next season
In 2013, the Pittsburgh Pirates received a boost during their playoff run when they called up then-rookie pitcher Gerrit Cole. Next season, the Pirates may get a similar impact from several different prospects. With the recent promotions of first baseman and arguably top hitting prospect Josh Bell and top pitching prospect Tyler Glasnow to Triple-A Indianapolis, both are now in a position to arrive in Pittsburgh sometime in 2016 barring injury. Of course, this is under the assumption ... Read More
Nats snap Pirates win streak in opener
Friday night sure did rock in Washington D.C. as the Nationals [34-33] hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates [39-27] who just finished off a four-game series sweep against the Chicago White Sox. The Nationals, who were without their most productive offensive player Bryce Harper [.344 BA, 22 HR, 54 RBI) mustered only four runs with a staggering 14 hits but still found a way to snap the Pirates’ eight-game winning streak, winning tonight’s game, 4-1. A.J. Burnett took the mound tonight pitching with a ... Read More