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The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 in a crucial game for positioning in the race for the second wild-card spot in the National League. Random thoughts follow. 1. To be fair, the Pirates played until 1:28 a.m. on Tuesday in Chica...

This is how we learn to love and hate. This is how we develop affection and fear. This is how legends are born. The Pittsburgh Pirates, playing their biggest series of the year in their most important season since 1992, needed some wins. The Pirat...

Eric Karabell got stuck in traffic (twice!) on his way from Pennsylvania to Connecticut, so I filled in at the last minute to host Monday's Baseball Today podcast with Keith Law. Among the topics: 1. The Oakland A's are red hot after sweeping the ...

First base: Lester loses again. It was a brutal weekend for the Boston Red Sox as they got swept at home by the Toronto Blue Jays by the scores of 6-1, 7-3 and 15-7. Jon Lester was terrible again, allowing 11 runs in four innings on Sunday, including...

Back in 1990, Barry Bonds entered the season at the age of 25. He'd been viewed as enough of a disappointment -- and difficult personality -- through his first three full seasons that the Pittsburgh Pirates had offered him around that winter, in sear...

I've written before how certain seasons become identifiable with one player, or maybe a couple of players. Last season, for example, clearly belonged to Justin Verlander. You can debate the historic nature of his season, but it just felt like his ...

Pirates have 50 runs in last 6 games. They didn't score their 50th run of the season until the last game of April. - DJ Gallo (@DJGalloESPN) July 3, 2012 Actually, it's now 53 runs after the Pittsburgh Pirates finished off the Houston Astros ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates couldn't complete a series sweep of the Boston Red Sox, but taking two of three and knocking the Sox out of first place qualifies as one of the biggest moral victories for the franchise in years. A year ago, the Pirates were...