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The Pittsburgh Pirates embark on their shortest road trip of the season as they head to Kansas City today for a series with the Royals. Both teams have seen a slight drop-off since their last series, and are looking to rebound on this Memorial Day evening. Memorial Day is a day when we remember all of those who sacrificed everything to preserve the freedoms we have today. Usually, it means an afternoon of family barbeques and baseball, followed by a fire in the evening. However, for the Pittsburgh Pirates, there is work to be done as they go on the road to face the Kansas City Royals. It isn't your typical afternoon game, as the two teams square off at 8:10 pm, and it is the shortest road trip of the year for the Pirates at just two games. These two teams faced off in late April and were two of the hottest teams in Major League Baseball. However, since then, both teams have come back down to Earth a little, the Pirates more so than the Royals. However, the Pirates did b...

The Pittsburgh Pirates return home from their nine-game, 6-3, road trip and bring Interleague play with them to PNC Park when they host the Royals tomorrow. We look at what to expect as PNC Park welcomes the American League in 2021. The Pittsburgh Pirates are on fire as of late, having won 10 of their last 15 games, including a nine-game road trip that saw them go 6-3 and win three straight series. The team now returns home bringing that momentum with them as they host their first Interleague series of the 2021 season when they bring in the Kansas City Royals for a two-game series. After starting the year 1-6, the Pirates have gone 4-0-1 in their past five series and have not lost a series since April 5th through April 7th in Cincinnati. During that time, the pitching has been consistent, and the bats have started to come to life. They are looking to keep that momentum going as they are back in their home yard and looking to get over the .500 mark for the first time since O...

On Friday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals will open up a three-game set at Kauffman Stadium. It will be the Pirate's first game against the Royals since 2018 and their first time in Kansas City since the 2015 season. In an abbreviated, bubble-like, schedule you are bound to play some teams you don't normally see. For the Pirates, that will be the case on Friday when they head to Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City to take on the Royals at 8:05 pm. The Pirates have not played the Royals since the 2018 season, and haven't traveled to Kansas City since the 2015 season. Looking at the stats, the Pirates and the Royals are two teams going in similar directions this season, with similar roster makeups. The Royals sit at 17-28 while the Pirates are at 14-27. Neither team has much of a chance at making the playoffs, and are showing what some of their young talent can do. For the Pirates, it's guys like Ke'Bryan Hayes and JT Brubaker getting to s...

On Monday evening, Major League Baseball announced the 2020 Coronavirus abbreviated schedules for all 30 Major League teams. The season will be 60 games spanning 66 days with the Pirates beginning the season on July 24th and wrapping up the year on September 27th. Let the excitement about baseball once again begin, as Major League Baseball came one step closer to restarting its 2020 season. The league announced the schedules for all 30 Major League clubs on Monday night kicking things off on July 23rd with the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals and the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. The San Francisco Giants. The Pittsburgh Pirates will begin their season the very next day when they head to St. Louis to take on the Cardinals at 8:10 pm. It kicks off the 60 game sprint that will last from July 24th until September 27th, then the postseason begins with the three division champions and two wild cards from each division making the tournament. The Pirates will play their norm...

As we await the start of the 2020 MLB season due to Corona Virus concerns, we will take a look at every player on the Pirates roster and outline what they will bring to the table and projections for the 2020 season. I hope this brings some positive reading to the current situation and helps us all as we wait for baseball. If there is one thing that can kill a Major League Baseball player's career, it is the Injured List. Hundreds of players go on the injured list every year for things as minor as a scratch on their finger to as major as cancer. No one likes to go on the injured list, but some are just more prone to being injured than others. For Pirates catcher Andrew Susac, the injured list has been more of a home than he would like. He has been in the Majors since the 2013 season and has spent at least some time on the injured list every single season. After signing a Minor League contract with the Pirates this off-season, Susac is looking to stay healthy and provide ...

A walk-off loss got things started on day two of the MLB The Show 20 Players tournament for Cole Tucker. Things didn't get much better for the young shortstop as another 1-3 day drops his tournament to 2-6 over his first two days. After kicking off the MLB The Show 20 Players tournament on Monday, Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Cole Tucker was at it again on Wednesday for day two of the tournament. It wasn't Tucker's lucky day as a walk-off loss started things off and led to another 1-3 day, dropping his tournament record to just 2-6. He would start day two off with a match against David Dahl of the Colorado Rockies and, early in the game, it looked like the luck was going to be in Tucker's side. He took the lead against Dahl in inning number one as Brian Reynolds reached base on a dropped third strike and brought home the first run of the game to give Tucker a 1-0 lead. He extended his lead to 2-0 by innings end and things were going his way as he sent Chris ...