Baseball

The Cuban Missile has risen from troubles of Yankee Stadium to newfound success in fresh threads. The 2021 and 2022 seasons saw Chapman have the two worst seasons of his career. A far cry from his record-breaking, All-Star level dominance that has developed Chapman into a baseball icon. In those two seasons, Chapman recorded a career-worst in (Walks and Hits Per Inning Pitche ...

If you look at the standing in Major League Baseball’s National League Central Division, you may have to do a double take. That’s because the Pittsburgh Pirates are all alone in first place. That’s right, the Buccos are off to their best start since 1992, a year they were a playoff team. The season is off to such a great start for the Bucs that manager Derek Shelton was given ...

The cliché in sports is that records are meant to be broken. In Major League Baseball, some single-season records may never be broken and have stood the test of time. What follows are 10 single-season records on the books that most likely will never be matched again. In no particular order, these 10 marks are held by players who are no longer alive to see how long their record ...

104 years ago Major League Baseball suffered one the darkest periods it has ever experienced. The year was 1919 and the World Series involved the champions of the American League, the Chicago White Sox taking on the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. What ensued was the only known fixed baseball championship when members of the White Sox opted to throw the World Series ...

In baseball one of the most coveted awards but what is very difficult to achieve is winning the triple crown. To do that a player has to lead the majors in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in. So difficult it is to achieve that only 16 players in history have accomplished the feat. Of those 16, 10 were American Leaguers. The last time it was done came 11 years ago i ...

This baseball season the Pittsburgh Pirates and their fans will welcome home a player who should have never left in the first place. 2023 marks the return of outfielder Andrew McCutchen returning to the Bucs after playing last season with the Milwaukee Brewers. McCutchen’s career began with a baseball scholarship to the University of Florida but the Pirates also drafted him wi ...

In 2022, the league batting average was .243, the lowest it’s been in 55 years; league-wide batting averages have dropped each season since 2016, aside from 2019. The staple for recognizing if a player is an elite batter has always been roughly a .300 batting average or higher. However, by 2022 standards, a .255 batting average is good enough to qualify as a better than an abo ...

Now that the University of Georgia Bulldogs have won their second consecutive NCAA football championship, they’ve accomplished something that has been proven to be very difficult to achieve not just in college football but in all other sports; repeating as champions. Repeat Champions in NCAA Football Not since 2011 and 2012 has a collegiate team won the title in successive ...

If you are a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates and were watching them play in the 1960s and 1970s then you may not realize that this month marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of Buccos' superstar and Baseball Hall of Fame member Roberto Clemente.

Nine years ago on October 1, 2013, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Cincinnati Reds in the National League wild-card game that might just be the most memorable event in Buccos history. It wasn’t so much memorable for the Pirates' victory that propelled them into the divisional championship but rather what the fans did that night specifically to Reds starter Johnny Cueto. In ...