NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Skenes is ready to take on the world. The Pittsburgh Pirates ace announced Tuesday that he will join Team USA when the World Baseball Classic returns next March. “Being around the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso hit a game-winning sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the New York Mets took advantage of a costly error by shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4...

Roughly six weeks into the season, Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Joey Bart has proven to be among the team’s hardest players to remove from the lineup any given night. For a club that continues to rank t...

It took 62 years for a team to surpass the modern record of 120 losses. The new mark of 121 might fall a little quicker. When Colorado routed San Diego 9-3 on Sunday — a “that’s baseball” moment if th...

Carmen Mlodzinski turned in his best start in the 4-3 victory. Carmen Mlodzinski pounded his fist into his glove as he walked off the mound with two outs in the sixth inning, an auto-response to his b...

The Pirates’ GM also provided medical updates on a few injured players. Finding Derek Shelton’s replacement was an easy call for Ben Cherington, as Don Kelly made such a strong impression that the gen...

To say the last 24-plus hours have been a whirlwind for Don Kelly is a massive understatement. Kelly, 45, was elevated to manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday afternoon after Derek Shelton’s ...

Leadership, commitment, dedication, concern for fellow teammates — those were among the several dozen categories Mark Jackson used to annually evaluate his baseball players at Point Park. It was a str...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Derek Shelton was booed loudly when he was introduced ahead of his sixth home opener as the Pittsburgh Pirates manager last month. He shook it off in the aftermath, attributing the r...

Ben Cherington has delivered his share of double talk as general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and his explanation for firing manager Derek Shelton on Thursday was no exception. While severing ti...

A recent article on MLB’s website listed the greatest father-son duos in baseball history. The source relied upon the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) statistics from the website baseball reference. com f...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sonny Gray pitched seven innings of two-hit ball, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates 5-0 on Wednesday for their fifth straight victory. Gray (4-1) struck...

In less than a week, Paul Skenes will have spent exactly one calendar year as a big leaguer, having made his MLB debut May 11, 2024. Over that span, from a performance standpoint, there has appeared t...

St. Louis scored four runs to overtake Pittsburgh’s one-run lead and roll to a 6-3 win at home. The Pittsburgh Pirates having nosedived to 11 games under .500 in the first week of May could be seen as...

The Pittsburgh Pirates were searching for answers after losing five times in a sixgame homestand and being swept by the San Diego Padres. Derek Shelton didn’t have many to offer Sunday. So, the Pirate...

When asked about a stretch in which the Pittsburgh Pirates lost seven of nine games, Ben Cherington resorted to using a line the Pirates general manager admits he stole: You need to be urgent every da...

Ted Williams is the last American Leaguer to hit .400, and there are actually plenty of similarities between him and Aaron Judge. The one major difference is in the strikeout column, and that’s why Ju...

Derek Shelton is searching for ways to manufacture runs as his team has dropped eight of its last 10 games. The Pittsburgh Pirates’ offense hit another low Sunday afternoon, when a 28-year-old pitcher...

When I was a kid, my grandmother used to tell me, “If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all.” Now, my gram was the most saintly, kindest person I ever knew and I tended...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chicago Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga left Sunday’s game at Milwaukee after straining his left hamstring, adding another injury to the banged-up rotation for the NL Central leaders. ...