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Pirates Will Play Two Games in Montreal Next Spring

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The Pittsburgh Pirates will finish up their Spring Training schedule next year with a trip to Montreal, where they will take on the Toronto Blue Jays for two games. The games will be held at Olympic Stadium, the former home of the Montreal Expos, on March 31st at 7:05 PM and April 1st at 1:05 PM. The regular season begins on April 3rd at Fenway Park, so those two games will be the last games of Spring Training.

The Pirates last played in Montreal on June 25, 2003, winning that game 6-5 with three runs in the ninth inning. During the 2004 season, the Expos played some of their home games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Puerto Rico, which included the entire four-game series against the Pirates. The franchise relocated to Washington the following season.

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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