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Pittsburgh Pirates Release 2018 Schedule

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced their 2018 schedule on Tuesday afternoon. It’s an early start next year, as the Pirates travel to Detroit to play the Tigers in the season opener on March 29th. After three games over four days, the Pirates head to PNC Park to take on the Minnesota Twins in the home opener on April 2nd. That’s a two-game series, followed by four more home games against the Cincinnati Reds. On April 9th, the Pirates will visit the Chicago Cubs for their home opener.

The Tigers, Twins, Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals all visit PNC Park as part of the interleague schedule. The Pirates travel to Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Minnesota as the road part of their interleague schedule.

The home schedule ends on September 23rd against the Milwaukee Brewers and the season schedule ends seven days later in Cincinnati. The All-Star game is on July 17th and the Pirates have a ten-game homestand leading into the break.

The overall schedule is four days longer than normal to give players some extra rest during the course of the season without getting rid of actual games. Spring Training will also be two days shorter starting this season, although the amount of games will likely stay the same. Both schedule changes were part of the last CBA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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