Pirates Fans Coping With Wild Card Loss To Giants
Today, Pirates fans are still getting over the sting of watching their team lose in the National League Wild Card Game Wednesday night.
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Today, Pirates fans are still getting over the sting of watching their team lose in the National League Wild Card Game Wednesday night.
During Pittsburgh's National League wild-card game against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night, ESPN's cameras caught a Pirates fan standing in the Giants' dugout, looking rather lost.
It should come as no surprise that Pirates fans flooded PNC Park with their own Hunter Pence signs last night.
Madison Bumgarner pitched a four-hitter with 10 strikeouts and Brandon Crawford hit the first grand slam by a shortstop in postseason history as the San Francisco Giants routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-0 on Wednesday night in the National League wild-card game.
From the City by the Bay to the Golden Triangle makes for a long trip.
The Pirates have announced their roster for the wild card playoff game against the San Francisco Giants and there are a few surprises.
The Giants and Pirates meet in the playoffs for the first time since 1971. Winner of the National League Wild Card game moves on to the Division Series.
The Pirates are gearing up for their Wild Card matchup with the San Francisco Giants tonight. Meanwhile, Pirates' fans are gearing up for another PNC Park blackout.
The Pirates opening day first baseman will be the Giants starting leftfielder in Wednesday's wild card game at PNC Park. It's been a strange six month trip for Travis Ishikawa.
The only previous time Edinson Volquez started a postseason game was in the 2010 National League Division Series. Pitching for the Reds against the Phillies, he gave up four runs in one and two-thirds innings and took the loss.
Pirates catcher Russell Martin said he intends to be in the lineup for Wednesday's National League wildcard game against the Giants at PNC Park. He missed the final two games of the regular season after he appeared to aggravate his injured hamstring on Friday.
The Pirates play a big game on Sunday and at the same time the Steelers host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Heinz Field.
The big screen lost a legend, while sports lost their greatest motivator.
Reliever Jean Machi and the San Francisco Giants took advantage of a huge baserunning blunder by Pittsburgh, tagging out two runners who wandered away on the same play and beating the Pirates 7-5 Wednesday to end a six-game losing streak.
His left oblique no longer a painful obstacle, Francisco Liriano is starting to look like the dominant pitcher he was for Pittsburgh in 2013.
Fresh off his 100-pitch, complete game shutout of the San Francisco Giants on Monday night, Pirates Starting Pitcher Vance Worley joined Starkey and Mueller to talk about that game and his season as a whole.
Except for about 30 friends and family in the stands, Sacramento native Vance Worley silenced the announced crowd of 41,794 at AT&T Park with the best performance of his career.
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Jean Machi has been playing professional baseball in the United States since 2002 when he pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies' team in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League.
The Giants' Madison Bumgarner, entering his sixth season, is beginning to show mastery of his pitches.
Buster Posey had three hits, Pablo Sandoval drove in two runs and the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3 on Saturday night.
Clint Barmes hit a three-run home run, Charlie Morton pitched eight strong innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the San Francisco Giants 3-1 on Friday night.
