Pirates Acquire Brandon Wood
Shortstop Ronny Cedeno now has competition for his job because this afternoon the Pirates claimed Angels shortstop Brandon Wood off waivers.
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Shortstop Ronny Cedeno now has competition for his job because this afternoon the Pirates claimed Angels shortstop Brandon Wood off waivers.
Pirate fans might soon be watching another shortstop and his name could be Brandon Woods.
Chris Gates | 93-7 The Fan — James McDonald pitched just three innings Thursday night at Florida, allowing eight runs on six hits in a 9-5 loss.
One day after leaving the team for personal reasons, Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen is back in the starting lineup.
The Bucs (8-10) were unable to get any offense going on Ricky Nolasco who gave up just four hits and threw eight strikeouts in seven innings.
The FAN's Vinnie Richichi and Ron Cook are joined by Pirates pitching coach Ray Searage to talk some Buccos baseball.
Chris Gates | 93-7 The Fan — Josh Johnson lived up to his own hype Tuesday night, pitching seven innings of scoreless baseball to shut out the Pirates, 6-0.
The Pirates will look to get their record over .500 tonight as they take on the Florida Marlins. Does Clint Hurdle have Pedro Alvarez back in the starting lineup?
Andrew McCutchen doubled home two runs as part of Pittsburgh's biggest offensive showing this season, and the Pirates took advantage of another slow-starting Cincinnati pitcher, beating the Reds 9-3 on Monday night.
It's great to see that the Bucs are showing fight away from home, and in a strange way, comforting to see them fighting to stay around .500 with virtually no contributions offensively from Pedro Alvarez.
"Where the #%!@ is everyone!" I had to utter that line a dozen times.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is sitting 3B Pedro Alvarez for the final game of the 4-game series vs. Cincinnati.
There's more good news as two Pirate pitching prospects have good outings.
Andrew McCutchen opened the game with a homer against slow-starting Edinson Volquez, then singled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning Sunday, rallying the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-6 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
Chris Gates | 93-7 The Fan — Things got away from Pirates starter James McDonald in the fifth inning Saturday and the Pirates fell in Cincinnati, 11-2.
