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CINCINNATI — The fourth inning was a frame of “what ifs” for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bailey Falter could have done a better job of keeping his four-se...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Yandy Díaz hit a home run off the first pitch from Paul Skenes on Sunday before leading off a two-run eighth inning with a single, s...

PITTSBURGH — Manuel Margot hit an RBI triple to start a seven-run outburst in the 10th inning, and the Minnesota Twins ended a five-game losing streak...

For the first time since 2019, the Beimel brothers are again sharing the field together with the Olean Oilers, however this time there is a slightly d...

One thing was certainly different about the Pittsburgh Pirates series in Toronto. For a change, Rowdy Tellez was good. The much-maligned first baseman...

The routes were different, but the destination is the same. Both the St. Marys and Northern Potter softball teams’ path to the PIAA state tournament m...

DUBOIS — After a breakout season that led to the District 9 Class A championship game, the Northern Potter softball team’s season would be truly teste...

DUBOIS — Elk County Catholic ran into a buzzsaw in the form of DuBois Central Catholic pitcher Aidan Snowberger. Snowberger recorded 17 of his 21 outs...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes tugged on one black dress shoe, then another. He slowly unfurled his 6-foot-6 frame from the chair in front of his locke...

Fielding a team for the first time since 2019, the Northern Potter Lady Panthers softball team is now one win away from a District 9 championship. Beh...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — William Contreras went 3 for 5 with four RBIs and hit one of Milwaukee’s five homers off Martín Pérez in the Brewers’ 10-2 blowout of...

As a handful of position players went through fielding drills and others took batting practice indoors, Wil Crowe and Mitch Keller talked like two Pir...

PITTSBURGH — Pitching depth has been one of the obvious flaws with the 2022 Pirates through the first half of the season. There are useful veterans li...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole and the rest of major league pitchers are likely to be looking over their shoulders next season — at ...

Max Scherzer misses hitting. He misses pitching to pitchers. And yet the New York Mets right-hander is just fine with the full-time addition of the de...

Major League Baseball’s offensive problem is obvious. Teams don’t score enough runs — and hitters don’t make contact often enough — to hold viewers’ a...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Alex Faedo is trying not to get ahead of himself. Having two years basically taken away from him — first by the COVID-19 pandemic, t...

The other night on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, he got big laughs during his monologue lamenting that baseball was “boring.” His point, other than to ...

PHOENIX (AP) — New York Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt has a theory about why his bat-swinging teammates have turned into targets at the plate during the ...

Earlier this season, in this space, my frustration with the incursion of analytics into baseball telecasts boiled over. However, I’ve actually gotten ...