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Pirates and Cardinals Will Open Up 2016 Season

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Major League Baseball has announced that the Pittsburgh Pirates and St Louis Cardinals will be the opening game of the 2016 season. The game which was originally scheduled for Monday April 4th at 1:35 PM, has been switched to Sunday, April 3rd at 1:05 PM and it will be televised on ESPN. The two teams will now have Monday off, followed by games on Tuesday and Wednesday to wrap up the series.

MLB also officially announced that the Pirates and Marlins will play May 30-31st in Puerto Rico, although the dates have been confirmed for quite some time, they weren’t officially announced until today. The May 31st game will be Roberto Clemente Day.

If you missed it from earlier in the week, the Pirates released the 2016 Spring Training schedule, which includes an April 2nd game in Indianapolis.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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