Author: Jeremy Freeborn

Pittsburgh Pirates designated hitter Andrew McCutchen of Fort Meade, Florida became the 160th Major League Baseball player all-time to hit 300 home runs. He accomplished the feat in a 9-2 Pirates win over the Philadelphia Phillies in a battle of Pennsylvania at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Of McCutchen’s 300 career home runs, 216 have come with the Pirates, 47 with the Phillies, 17 with the Milwaukee Brewers, 15 with the San Francisco Giants, and five with the New York Yankees. Inside Look at McCutchen’s home run McCutchen’s home run closed out the scoring on Sunday. He hit a...

The San Francisco Giants have traded catcher Joey Bart of Buford, Georgia to the Pittsburgh Pirates for minor league right handed pitcher Austin Strickland of Winchester, Ohio on Tuesday according to Mark Polishuk of MLB Trade Rumors. Bart has spent the last four seasons with the Giants, and now joins a team undefeated to start the 2024 Major League Baseball regular season. Bart’s 2023 MLB Statistics Bart batted .207 with zero home runs and five runs batted in during 2023. In 30 games, 87 at bats and 95 plate appearances, Bart scored nine runs, and had 18 hits, five...

There were four sweeps in Major League Baseball over the weekend, but the one sweep with the most historical significance came in Miami, as for the first time since 1903, the Pittsburgh Pirates opened the season with a four game sweep on the road. Over the last four days, they have beaten the Miami Marlins 6-5, 7-2, 9-3, and 9-7. Look back at the 1903 Pirates’s Opening Season Road Sweep From April 16-19, 1903, the Pirates began the season with four straight wins in Cincinnati. The Pirates won by scores of 7-1, 9-2, 5-4, and 6-4 at the Palace...