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Last night, as the Pirates set up a rout of their NL Central rival Reds in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh’s Rowdy Tellez pulled off a very rare personal feat. During a 6-run first inning for the Bucs, Tellez stole a base for just the fourth time in his career. That stolen base, which Tellez snagged uncontested (which…

Jack Suwinski has been a hot button topic around the Pittsburgh Pirates for a long, long time. Through his ups and downs and a multi year journey to try and find consistency at the plate, he has always been one of the most discussed players on the team. In recent weeks, however, the frustration that…

In rather frustrating fashion, the Pirates dropped their series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays by a final score of 3-1. After being blown out 10-3 in the series opener, the Pirates eked out a 4-3 win to set up a series clinching game to wrap up their City Connect weekend. However, with the series…

The Pirates have had a unique way of handling some of their recent bullpen games. With injuries plaguing their starting rotation and a front office that would like to play it safe (as much as they can, anyways) with their two young aces in Jared Jones and Paul Skenes, the team has been forced into…

The Pirate outfield is struggling. Aside from Bryan Reynolds, who cannot stop hitting in what is historically his best time of the year, Pittsburgh is struggling to get any real offense from anyone who plays the outfield. While in some cases (like Michael A. Taylor) offense has been sacrificed in exchange for elevated defensive play,…

On a 90+ degree day in a rubber match at PNC Park, the Pirates hosted the Reds in a series-deciding game between the NL Central rivals. The Pirates had won the opening game on Monday 4-1 before dropping last night’s affair in a much tighter 2-1 score. Pittsburgh called upon Mitch Keller to face off…

Daulton Jeffries is a name we’ve heard a few times in the last few weeks. He has been tabbed as a call-up candidate on a few occasions, being a guy with former major league experience. He also served as the team’s 27th man during their double header a few weeks ago in Detroit. But now…

If only it could be June all the time, because if it was, the Pirates would have an All Star left fielder every single year. Bryan Reynolds is on an absolute tear in the month of June so far this year. The 29-year old has racked up a 14-game hitting streak that poetically started with…

The last time we saw Josh Fleming wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform, things did not go according to plan. And actually, that might actually be the understatement of the year. Fleming last appeared for the Pirates in a May 13th game in Milwaukee against the Brewers. Fleming came on for the seventh inning of a…

After dropping two of three in St. Louis, including a frustrating loss in the rubber match, the Pirates continued their midwest roadtrip with a visit to Coors Field in Colorado. With a similar approach to last Saturday, the team once again patched together a bullpen game in their series opener vs the Rockies. On Saturday…

There were a LOT of transactions that took within the Pirates organization yesterday, particularly in the pitching department. But amidst all those moves, the team added a lot of new arms to the organization. A day after designating Ben Heller (who racked up a 49.50 ERA in 2.0 innings) for assignment, the team DFA’d another…

The journey of Rowdy Tellez has been well chronicled by basically every sports media outlet in this city, as well as here on Fifth Avenue (if you could call this site a sports media outlet). But now this long and winding road has reached an interesting new twist. Rowdy Tellez has actually been good. Like,…

Ben Heller hasn’t been a Pittsburgh Pirate for very long. Just 2.0 innings, to be exact. And yet, it’s hard to think of a Pirates tenure that has been so brief and so disastrous at the same time. Heller originally arrived in the Pirates organization when he signed a minor league deal with the team…

There was some excitement brewing when it was announced that the Pirates were recalling Henry Davis. The 24-year old was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis in early May after starting the season on an abysmal cold streak. The season-opening injury and subsequent rehab assignment of free agent catcher Yasmani Grandal had perhaps bought Davis some extra…

If there was ever a man who needed a day like today, it was Rowdy Tellez. The embattled first baseman was routinely being booed in his home stadium as Pirates fans grew more and more restless with the underperforming Tellez. Mercilessly, vigorously, and angrily an ever growing section of PNC Park booed nearly as soon…

With Martin Perez still on the Injured List from his groin issue in May, and his replacement Quinn Preister recently joining him with a right lat issue, the mound will belong to Carmen Mlodzinski tomorrow as the Pirates put together their first bullpen game of the season. Mlodzinski has pitched 10.2 innings for the Pirates…

After taking the first two games of the series vs Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Pirates went for the sweep with Bailey Falter on the mound opposite Walker Buehler. Falter was riding an almost season long hot streak, pitching to a 2.54 ERA ever since allowing 5 runs and a grand slam…

Just about an hour ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates added reliever Justin Bruihl as a major league free agent. He has been added to the team’s 26-man roster, and a corresponding move will take place soon. Update: per Alex Stumpf, the Pirates have placed starter Quinn Priester on the 15-Day IL (retro to June 3) with…

The Pirates clinched a series win against Los Angeles Wednesday night as they took down the Dodgers 10-6. They improve to 29-32 on the season and now have their first series win in the month of June secured. Though the pitching performance is not something you would typically focus on in a 10-6 game, the…

If you’re a baseball fan, the name Jorge Lopez probably rings a bell. Last week, he was the story in Major League Baseball after he was ejected in a lopsided loss for the New York Mets. After arguing a pitch that was called a ball, Lopez eventually walked off the field, tossing his glove in…

Jared Jones was given no easy task when he took the mound Tuesday night at PNC Park. He was set to start in Pittsburgh’s series opener against the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers, who featured a Murder’s Row of talent at the plate. Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani, Will Smith, and Freedie Freeman represented just some of…

Henry Davis is back in the big leagues. First reported by Jason Mackey and then followed up Alex Stumpf, the Pirates are recalling Henry Davis from the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians. The first overall pick by the Pirates in 2021, Davis made his Pirates debut last season when he was called up in June. His arrival…

In keeping tabs on Pittsburgh’s top farm team, the Indianapolis Indians, there has never been a better time to pay some extra attention to the pitching staff down there. The bullpen, in particular. The Pirates have already made several moves involving Indianapolis and the bullpens, including the recall of Carmen Mlodzinski, the constant shuffle of…

It’s the kind of day that, given the way things have been going for the Pirates and Rowdy Tellez, is bittersweet. Tellez, with Pittsburgh facing his old team in the Toronto Blue Jays, had his best game in months (although that might not be saying a whole lot) with 2 singles and a double, 4…

Yesterday, an article written by Noah Wright over at Rum Bunter created a lot of buzz around Pirates Twitter. Wright had suggested that the Pirates look into bringing back Ji Man Choi in an effort to shore up the team’s first base woes. Wright opened with this: The Pittsburgh Pirates could desperately use some first base…

In Pittsburgh’s series opener up north in Toronto, the Pirates and Blue Jays combined for an extra innings showdown that combined solid bullpen action with abysmal offense from both sides, until Toronto finally broke through off a two-run homer to win it. We saw the ghost runner rule work in exactly the opposite of the…

After injuries sustained to both starting pitcher Martin Perez and catcher Joey Bart in the team’s series finale against Atlanta, the Pirates today released updates on both players. Perez is set to go on the 15-day Injured List with a groin injury, while Bart is being placed on the 10-day Injured List with his thumb…

The series finale against the Atlanta Braves was a rough game to watch. An 8-1 loss that saw starting pitcher Martin Perez leave with a groin injury and catcher Joey Bart leave with a thumb issue. There has not been an update on either Perez nor Bart, other than that they are being evaluated. The…

For the first time since 2021, the Pirates won a series against the Atlanta Braves. The clinching win came for Pittsburgh yesterday as the team prevailed 4-1 against the visiting Braves ball club. Regardless of what happens today in the Sunday matinee, the Pirates will still have won the weekend homestand against a very good…

It’s safe to say that the Pirates’s offense has found another gear over the last few weeks. We’ve seen the team hit the double digit mark twice in the last few weeks, and talks about the team’s overall batting slump have mostly evaporated, save for a few particular players. This recent turnaround isn’t without consequence,…

It was as if all of the frustration of the last few games had finally exploded down at PNC Park, as the Pirates showed no mercy to the visiting Atlanta Braves, putting up over a 10-spot on them en route to a win. The win was a much needed bounce back after the Pirates found…

Only the Pirates could turn what should have been a sweep into a series loss. Well, ok, let’s be fair. It isn’t all of the Pirates. Yesterday, Pittsburgh leaped out a 5-0 lead, sparked mostly by a grand slam from Bryan Reynolds in the bottom of the fourth. It was an electric moment at PNC…

In an announcement that almost coincided with the first pitch in Paul Skenes’ third major league start, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced that they had recalled left handed reliever Jose Hernandez. To make the corresponding move, the Pirates have optioned outfielder Jack Suwinski to Triple-A Indianapolis. Despite the comments being filled with some combination of the…

Andrew McCutchen has played a lot of baseball over the course of his career. After today, 2,044 games to be exact. Of those games, 1,771 of been somewhere in the outfield. However, it’s been 354 days exactly since McCutchen last took the outfield in a game. When he came back to the Pirates ahead of…