Adam Lindner | Sports Editor On Wednesday night at PNC Park, Dodgers’ pitcher Rich Hill threw eight perfect innings until third baseman Logan Forsythe committed an error during the top of the ninth inning. Hill went on to pitch the 26th no-hitter in franchise history, finishing regulation with 10 strikeouts and no hits or walks given up. However, with the score tied at 0, the … Continue reading Pirates’ playoff hopes dimming
David Borne | Staff Writer Just a little over a month and a half remain in the MLB’s regular season, and with the playoff race in full swing, the Pittsburgh Pirates find themselves in a familiar position. With a record hovering right below the .500 mark (58-62) and sitting several games out of a playoff spot, Pittsburgh now faces another uphill battle in working to … Continue reading Pirates’ playoff hopes hinge on pitching staff going forward
By Andrew Holman | Sports Editor Major League Baseball’s regular season is composed of a grueling 162 game schedule, and at season’s end, a single win can separate the playoff teams from the ones sitting at home thinking about next season. For the players and teams lucky enough to clinch, October is a celebration of all the hard work they put in and all the … Continue reading Prepare for an October to remember in 2016
By Andrew Holman | Sports Editor A 24-year-old ace. A big league pitcher. A two-time All-Star. A rookie of the year. A role model in the Miami and Cuban communities. A heroic son. A loving grandson. A soon-to-be father. Those are just some of the titles given to José Fernández. All of those are things to which he should be very proud, but if there’s … Continue reading The world lost a great one: Rest easy José Fernández
AMERICAN LEAGUE By Julian Routh | Editor-In-Chief This could be the strongest American League the sport has seen in years. Emerging young stars like Dallas Keuchel and Francisco Lindor are entering their primes. Lineups – like the Blue Jays nine – are frightening from top to bottom. Teams from all three divisions had stellar offseasons, the likes of which could go down in baseball history. … Continue reading 2016 MLB Season Preview
By Bryanna McDermott | The Duquesne Duke “Baseball’s tired. It’s a tired sport,” Bryce Harper, the 23-year old outfielder for the Washington Nationals, told ESPN The Magazine for a feature story on how he plans to change the game. Harper’s comments stirred up a frenzy among devoted baseball beat writers, but the guy has a point: It’s time to change the unwritten rules of baseball. … Continue reading Harper calls for modernization of America’s pastime
By Andrew Holman | The Duquesne Duke Over the past few decades baseball has had a stigma attached to it of being “boring” or an “old man’s sport,” but the young generation of players who have rushed onto the baseball scene have made baseball captivating once again. Many people are probably already discounting the rest of this article, thinking how in the world can someone … Continue reading Thanks to youth, baseball is regaining excitement factor
Pat Higgins | Asst. Sports Editor The Pirates clinched a berth in the postseason on Tuesday night in Chicago for the first time in 21 years. Hollywood couldn’t have written a more fitting script for a franchise that’s been marred by injuries, bad luck, poor scouting and routinely miserable personnel decisions for as long as I’ve been alive: Marlon Byrd botched a routine play on … Continue reading The Point After: Playoff baseball is among us (soon)
Saúl Berríos-Thomas | Layout Editor Many people spend a lot of time carving out the perfect bucket list, but how many people actually get to accomplish some of the bigger items on those lists? That is exactly what Eric Mueller is doing. Mueller, a life-long Detroit Tigers fan, had a dream to travel the country and see every Major League Baseball stadium. He had seen … Continue reading 30 parks in 30 days: Man fulfilling MLB dream
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