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Oneil Cruz's walk-off walk staves off Pirates' 100th loss for another day

PITTSBURGH — It’s still possible the Pirates will lose 100 games this season, but they aren’t going quietly into that good night.

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Pirates get clutch performances, beat Adam Wainwright to spoil Cardinals' Sunday coronation

Sunday in St. Louis had a festive feel and was supposed to be about a coronation of Cardinals stars, the formal feting of Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina in their final regular-season home game.

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Home-cooking once again kind to Jack Suwinski during Pirates' victory over Reds

PITTSBURGH — The ball landed with a thud when it struck the FedEx sign in right-center field. For Jack Suwinski, it must have felt strange to hit something to that part of PNC Park and have it actually stay in play. Seems all Suwinski does these days at home is…

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Pirates enjoy enticing glimpse of future while snapping losing skid against Cubs

PITTSBURGH — Seemingly stranded in the desert while mired in one of the longest losing stretches of the season, the Pirates found some water Saturday in the form of future pieces, young players they surely hope will be part of an eventual rebound.

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Bullpen, walks sink Pirates in 6-5 loss to Cubs as losing streak hits 8

PITTSBURGH — Bryan Reynolds and Jack Suwinski supplied the homers. Ji Hwan Bae picked up his first MLB hit and stole two bases, and the Pirates showed plenty of fight during Friday's game against the Cubs. Shoot, Oneil Cruz even drove one to the warning track in the ninth, giving…

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Cubs rookie Hayden Wesneski throws immaculate inning in victory

The pitch that dealt the final blow was also one Wesneski worked to refine last week.

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Pirates' late rally comes up short as team gets swept for 11th time this season

PITTSBURGH — At a certain point in a season like Pirates' 2022 campaign, the losses tend to run together. Even so, the conditions that produced the Pirates' 4-3 loss Sunday to the Toronto Blue Jays were eerily similar to the previous night's.

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Joe Starkey: Pirates need increased positive signs in season's second half

Yes, I'm still predicting the Pirates to win the World Series in 2027.

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Ron Cook: The Pirates would be right to send Oneil Cruz back to Class AAA

PITTSBURGH — The Pirates were right to send Jack Suwinski back to the minors last week. He was overmatched at the plate. An 0-for-29 slide had dropped his batting average to .198 and his on-base percentage to .288. That was beyond abysmal. His 14 home runs seemed as if they…

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Pirates come up short to Brewers as Kevin Newman thrown out to end game

MILWAUKEE — Just when it seemed like the Pirates had life — and a hit — in a key situation, it was gone. And so was the game.

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Seventh-inning error proves costly for Pirates in second game of doubleheader

CINCINNATI — Josh VanMeter probably doesn’t want to return to Great American Ball Park any time soon. Pirates fans, meanwhile, likely aren’t clamoring for VanMeter to return at all, especially with Kevin Newman and Jake Marisnick seemingly at the tail end of their rehab assignments with Class AAA Indianapolis.

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Jason Mackey: So many sweet sights, sounds during Pirates' savory victory over Yankees

The increased number of paying customers who walked through the PNC Park gates on Tuesday wearing navy blue, red and gray was plenty obvious when the Yankees took the field and former Pirate Jameson Taillon warmed up to his longtime entrance song — "When the Levee Breaks," by Led Zeppelin,…

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Suwinski homer highlights Pirates win over Jameson Taillon, Yankees

PITTSBURGH — When the Pirates have traded away veterans over the years, whoever it may have been, they did so understanding that their returns in those trades wouldn’t show up until much later.

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Mike Persak: What we think we know about the Pirates at the season's (almost) halfway point

The Pirates are almost halfway done with their season. That unofficially important mark will come Wednesday, when they wrap up a two-game set against the best team in baseball, the New York Yankees.

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Power display — especially three homers from Michael Perez — carries Pirates over Brewers

PITTSBURGH — Somewhere between impossible and a suggestion to seek medical help rests what transpired Thursday during the Pirates’ 8-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers at PNC Park.

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Bryan Reynolds’ three-homer game carries Pirates to wacky win in Washington

WASHINGTON — Here’s guessing Bryan Reynolds won’t soon forget his first-ever three-homer game, an incredible performance by the Pirates center fielder on Wednesday afternoon that showed much the old Reynolds has returned and whatever it was that was here for the first two months of the season has exited stage…

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Pirates again see game shift late, continuing frustrating road trip

WASHINGTON — This road trip has been nothing short of brutal for the Pirates. A 10-inning loss at Tropicana Field on Friday. Then blowing a 5-3 lead and watching the Tampa Bay Rays walk it off against David Bednar a day later.

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Paul Zeise: Pirates could grow into a team that hits a lot of home runs over the next few seasons

The Pirates have had a little power surge of late and are now 17th among MLB teams in terms of hitting home runs. The Pirates have hit 73 home runs in their first 72 games, which puts them on pace to hit the most home runs they have had since…

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Pirates Rookie Suwinski Hits Walk-Off in Historic Three-HR Game

The 23-year-old outfielder powered Pittsburgh to victory at PNC Park on Sunday.

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Jack Suwinski homers three times to power Pirates' walkoff victory over the Giants

PITTSBURGH — This season was supposed to be about the Pirates employing a left-handed hitter with a pretty and powerful swing, one capable of crushing homers and sending the PNC Park crowd home happy. Shoot, this homestead was supposed to be about that stuff.

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With Rodón in top form, Giants start road trip with 2-0 win over Pirates

PITTSBURGH — In the fifth and final inning of his start two weeks ago in Philadelphia, something clicked for Carlos Rodón. Ever since, he has been the lights-out fireballer who showed up to start the season.

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Offense once again quiet during Pirates' 4-2 loss to Braves that stretches losing streak to four

ATLANTA — The positive, glass-half-full storyline with the Pirates this season has been the infusion of youth, a bevy of rookies getting chances with the big club and actually doing something with them. Jack Suwinski, Roansy Contreras, Cal Mitchell and the recent addition of Travis Swaggerty. Even the conspicuous absence…

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Jack Suwinski continues to impress, but Pirates drop series opener to Braves

ATLANTA — Jack Suwinski has insisted that he either can’t or doesn’t care to hear the noise. The increasing amount of attention that’s being paid to his offense … yeah, he can’t afford to think about it. He’s too busy sticking to the process.

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Miguel Cabrera, Alex Faedo come up big as Tigers sweep away Pirates

PITTSBURGH — Miguel Cabrera keeps delivering clutch knocks.

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Paul Zeise: Pirates' younger players have at least made the team more interesting

The Pirates have won eight of 12 and the ones driving this little surge are mostly the younger players, so that’s exciting.

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