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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Right-hander James McDonald looked sharp in his second outing of the spring against the Philadelphia Phillies tough lineup. His only run allowed over his three inning outing came in the 2nd frame. McDonald gave up a leadoff...

Good afternoon from Bright House Field in Clearwater, Florida. The Pirates are set to take on the Philadelphia Phillies at 1:05 today. Right-hander James McDonald will start for the Bucs against lefty Cole Hamels. McDonald, 27, is making his second...

The 2011 Rule 5 draft takes place tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM EST. The Pittsburgh Pirates have made a pick in each of the last four drafts under Neal Huntington. In order to continue that trend,...

James McDonald was uneven in losing his first start since June. Cliff Lee reachd double digits in whiffs and pitched into the eighth inning on a night when Hunter Pence made his Philadelphia debut. Pittsburgh lost...

Much in the same way that Lloyd Bridges picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue in the movie 'Airplane', the Pirates picked the wrong day to try to score five or more runs in consecutive...

The Pirates were thisclose to evening their record at 29-29. But Roy Halladay did what an ace is supposed to do: he stopped the Phillies four game slide as Philadelphia salvaged the finale of the weekend...

I like it when regional teams travel well and help fill the stadium. Philadelphia fans came out strongly and helped put nearly 40,000 people in PNC park. But it was the Pirate fans who went home...

It took twelve innings. It was dominated by pitching. In the end, Pittsburgh prevailed 2-1 in a contest that saw only 21 baserunners combined between the two teams. Through five innings, each club had only one hit....

Two links for the day to national articles that mention the Pirates: -Jayson Stark at ESPN has a list of the All-Underrated Team in Major League Baseball.  Stark lists Andrew McCutchen as the most underrated center fielder,...

Wouldn't it have been great if the Pirates had gone undeafeated for the month of July and gotten back in the pennant race? Wouldn't it be great if monopoly money was real? Wouldn't it be great if cars ran on water?

It'll be interesting to see if Philadelphia can stay in the race with about 1/3 of their roster on the DL. Tonight they could muster little against Daniel McCutchen and the Pirates bullpen. The Pirates managed to muster a little more and take the first game of the series.

The evening was full of drama. I'm in Chicago and took in my first game ever at Wrigley. I was on hand to watch Carlos Zambrano and the Cubs get pounded by Washington (shout out to...