ROOT SPORTS announced on Thursday morning that they will be showing 12 Pittsburgh Pirates’ Spring Training games this year, which is the most they have ever televised. Half the games will also be re-broadcast later that same day/night. The Pirates will face eight different teams in the televised games, with two games against the Twins, Red Sox, Rays and Orioles. MLB Network will release their Spring Training schedule soon, which will likely add another 5-10 games that will be available this spring. Here’s the 12 games from ROOT(all are in March):
March 4. Twins 1:05
6. Astros 1:05
7. Phillies 1:05*
9. Red Sox 1:05*
11. Rays 1:05
13. Tigers 1:05*
17. Yankees 1:05
23. Orioles 1:05*
26. Rays 6:05
27. Orioles 6:05
28. Twins 1:05*
30. Red Sox 1:05*
All the games are home games for the Pirates and the ones with asterisks are the games which will also be shown later. We will post an update when MLB Network announces their full schedule.