Pirates
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Friday Insider: And the Pirates’ cash will go to?
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM December 4, 2015The Pirates have saved roughly $17 million via A.J. Burnett’s retirement and Pedro Alvarez’s release, and they’ve theoretically still got the $12 million salary they’d have been delighted to commit...
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Kovacevic: Never ‘joy’ when it came to Pedro
in PittsburghPOSTED: 12:47 AM December 3, 2015Pedro Alvarez will be unhappy about this. For all his many flaws, both real and contrived, Alvarez genuinely preferred playing in Pittsburgh.
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McCutchen ranks Clemente Award ‘at the top’
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 6:22 PM October 30, 2015In the four-plus decades of Major League Baseball’s Roberto Clemente Award, only one player from Clemente’s franchise had won it: Willie Stargell in 1974. Well, move over, Pops, and make...
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Friday Insider: Pirates’ losses no coincidence
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:19 AM October 30, 2015Narratives abound about why the Pirates have been successful the past three years, some of them silly (defensive shifts and pitch-framing!) and some of them flat-out wrong (their oft-cited drafting...
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Kovacevic: Three up, three down … more to go
at PNC ParkPOSTED: 2:52 AM October 8, 2015"We know what we are." Gerrit Cole spoke those five words to me in a silent, sullen clubhouse at PNC Park late on this Wednesday night.
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Kovacevic: 1,908 reasons Pirates can beat Cubs
at PNC ParkPOSTED: 8:42 PM October 6, 2015He seemed human. He arrived at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon by riding the Cubs' team bus rather than walking across the Allegheny.
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Kovacevic: Now comes the hardest part
at PNC ParkPOSTED: 12:11 AM October 1, 2015The Pirates can beat the Cardinals in the National League Division Series. I didn’t believe that in 2013, but I do now.
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Kovacevic: Neither Pirates nor city showed up
at PNC ParkPOSTED: 12:44 AM September 29, 2015"I can take getting beat," Andrew McCutchen was saying at his stall late Monday night, his eyes drifting skyward as if still searching for answers.
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Kovacevic: Doubting Pirates’ lineups?
at PNC ParkPOSTED: 12:10 AM September 16, 2015It was simultaneously as wonderful and weird a scene as I could recall at PNC Park.
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Kovacevic: Hey, maybe the manager isn’t an idiot
in St. LouisPOSTED: 1:49 AM September 7, 2015I've checked again but, to be sure, I phoned a friend at the Elias Sports Bureau to confirm it: The Pirates are 81-0, and Clint Hurdle is 0-54.
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Kovacevic: Pirates’ focus can’t, won’t change
in St. LouisPOSTED: 10:25 PM September 5, 2015At 6:02 p.m. Central Daylight Time, Gregory Polanco swung through a Trevor Rosenthal fastball to finish the Pirates' 4-1 loss to the Cardinals.
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Kovacevic: Happ ‘just wanted to be part of this’
in St. LouisPOSTED: 1:58 AM September 5, 2015Looking back now on the Pirates' previous visit here, they might as well have stashed J.A. Happ in the equipment trunk.
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Kovacevic: ‘It’s like this place is haunted or something’
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:04 AM September 4, 2015MILWAUKEE — Francisco Cervelli was still shaking his head as he buttoned up to the shirt collar. It was as if he’d never seen a ghost before. At least not...
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Kovacevic: Locke’s fate never mattered
in MilwaukeePOSTED: 1:38 AM September 3, 2015Jeff Locke and Neal Huntington carried on a lengthy conversation in a side corridor of Miller Park's visiting clubhouse late Wednesday night.
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Kovacevic: Finding fun in the House of Horrors
in MilwaukeePOSTED: 11:10 PM September 1, 2015Once upon a time, right here in this very House of Horrors, the Pirates had this pinch-hitting hulk by the name of Michael Restovich.
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Kovacevic: Even-keeled Pirates go for kill in N.Y.
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 6:28 PM August 16, 2015NEW YORK — First-place Dodgers? Swept a week ago at PNC Park. First-place Mets? Swept Sunday at Citi Field, by way of an 8-1 annihilation. Season sweep, too. All six....
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Kovacevic: No secret at all to Pirates’ extra-inning streak
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:21 AM August 16, 2015NEW YORK — “Remember when we were 0-6 in these things?” That was Francisco Cervelli, primary author of the Pirates’ 5-3 14-inning victory over the Mets late Saturday night at...