Pittsburgh Pirates News

Pirates shortstop Jack Wilson has edged Canadian Jason Bay for won the first Chuck Tanner Award presented by the Pittsburgh chapter of the Baseball Writers of America Association. The award was established this season to recognize the Pirates player whose professionalism, co-operation and availability best assist the writers. Wilson beat out Bay, an outfielder from Trail, B.C., by one point in close balloting. Two points were given for a first-place ...

Kevin McClatchy will remain as the Pittsburgh Pirates' chief executive officer and managing general partner, even though the franchise hasn't had a winning season since he took control in 1996. McClatchy, whose family owns one of the largest newspaper chains in the U.S, formed the group that bought the Pirates for approximately US$95 million in 1996. Since then, another newspaper chain owner, G. Ogden Nutting of Wheeling, W.Va., has acquired ...

For a moment, Freddy Sanchez's unlikely pursuit of the National League batting title got to him for the first time all season. He felt stressed out and nervous, and began swinging at anything to try for a hit. Sanchez shook off his self-imposed pressure to get two hits and become the Pirates' first batting champion in 23 years, helping Pittsburgh to a 1-0 victory Sunday over Cincinnati that was decided ...

Freddy Sanchez had two hits while becoming the Pittsburgh Pirates' first National League batting champion in 23 years, and Xavier Nady's third hit of the game drove in the only run in a 1-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. Sanchez, not a regular when the season began, went 2-for-4 to finish with 200 hits and a .344 average, five points better than Florida's Miguel Cabrera, who went 0-for-2 ...

The Cincinnati Reds insisted they didn't have a big letdown after being eliminated from the NL Central race a few hours earlier. Losing to a pitcher with only one previous career victory suggested otherwise. Marty McLeary, a journeyman minor leaguer most of his career, pitched seven shutout innings in only his second major league start and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Reds 3-0 Saturday night to end an eight-game losing ...

Marty McLeary, a journeyman minor leaguer most of his career, pitched seven shutout innings in only his second major league start and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 Saturday night to end an eight-game losing streak. The Reds were mathematically eliminated from the NL Central race earlier in the day when the Cardinals beat the Brewers and they looked like it, doing nothing offensively against a 32-year-old right-hander ...

Jason Bay was a pretty discouraged man at the all-star break, his Pittsburgh Pirates having stumbled to a 30-60 mark in the opening half of the season. Everything had gone wrong, the optimism of spring training destroyed by a slow start before a 13-game losing streak in June killed any hopes of avoiding a 13th straight losing season. The bleak situation prompted Bay to take a stand. In a harsh ...

Rookie right-hander Ian Snell, one victory short of becoming the Pittsburgh Pirates' first 15-game winner in seven years, will miss Sunday's scheduled start against Cincinnati because of tightness in his right elbow. Snell was the losing pitcher Tuesday in a 7-4 loss to Houston, giving up six runs, four earned, in five innings. He complained afterward of having problems locating his pitches and not being able to throw with a ...

At Los Angeles, Olmedo Saenz hit a two-run homer and the Dodgers scored the go-ahead run on a bases-loaded walk to beat the Pittsburgh, avoiding what would have been a crushing three-game sweep by former manager Jim Tracy's club. The victory gave the Dodgers a half-game lead over idle Philadelphia in the NL wild-card race and kept them a half-game behind the West Division-leading San Diego Padres, who beat Arizona ...