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MLB Network’s Spring Training Broadcast Schedule for the Pirates Includes 17 Games

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MLB Network posted their schedule of 2018 Spring Training games that they will broadcast, starting on February 23rd and running until March 28th. Below, you will find every game for the Pittsburgh Pirates, along with the starting time. I put asterisks next to the games that are live broadcasts.

As you will notice, only five of the games are live and three of them are home games, which will likely be shown on AT&T SportsNet and blacked out on MLB Network in the local area. If you’re out of the local Pittsburgh area and known how to work a DVR (or VCR still?), then you will get to see 17 games. Most of the home games will be shown on SportsNet I’m sure, at least that’s how it usually works out, since MLB Network doesn’t actually cover any of the games on their own and most clubs don’t send their TV crew on the road for games.

Note: The schedule was updated on March 3rd. MLB Network added one game, changed two air times and they got rid of two repeats from earlier broadcasts. Basically, you get one extra game and may have to change the DVR time for the other games.

3/4 @ Twins 8 PM

*3/8 vs Tigers 1 PM

*3/9  @ Phillies 1 PM

*3/11 @ Blue Jays 1 PM

3/13 vs Orioles 9 AM (delayed from 3/12)

3/14 vs Rays 8 PM

3/16 @ Yankees 6 AM (delayed from 3/15)

*3/16: vs Braves 1 PM

3/18: vs Twins 9 AM (delayed from 3/17)

3/19: @ Blue Jays 6 AM (delayed from 3/18)

3/20: vs Twins  6 AM (delayed from 3/19)

3/21: @ Twins 7 PM

3/23: vs Blue Jays 2 AM (delayed from 3/22)

3/24: vs Phillies 12:30 AM (delayed from 3/23)

3/25: vs Rays 9 AM (delayed from 3/24)

*3/26: vs Phillies 1 PM

3/28:  @ Phillies 9 AM (delayed from 3/27)

The games that don’t indicate live or delayed are from earlier in the same day. You might want to save this link for easy reference.

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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