Game 50: Pirates at Cubs

Today, the Pirates continue their pounding of the hapless Cubs.

Paul Maholm will get the win.

Game 49: Pirates at Cubs

Tomorrow at 2pm, Correia and Davis to start.

Correia should be primed to re-assert his frontrunner status for the NL Cy Young award.

Game 48: Braves at Pirates

Bucs BUNT but lose? If the Bucs are going to average 1 run per game, they will need to draft many more talented pitchers.

Game 47: Braves at Pirates

Game on. Jurrgens and one of those Charlie Mortons.

Game 46: Tigers at Pirates

Maholm and Porcello starting soon as the Bucs try to get back to .500.

Steve Pearce gets the start at 3B for the raptured Pedro Alvarez.

Game 45: Tigers at Pirates

Scherzer and Correia at seven.

Nice day for a ballgame.

Game 44: Tigers at Pirates

Somewhere in the award-winning archives I have a proposal for radical MLB realignment, with Detroit and Pittsburgh in the same division.

Little-known fact: Jerome Bettis is from Detroit.

Baseball game is on. No score last I checked.

Game 43: Pirates at Reds

BUNT. Win. Again.

Playoff odds rising.

Game 42: Pirates at Reds

A Charlie Morton with Bronson Arroyo for the upstart Reds, at seven.

Game 41: Pirates at Nationals

Maholm and Lannan in this preview of a likely playoff match-up.

Game at seven.

Game 40: Pirates at Brewers

Correia and Greinke starting soon.

The Bucs own the hapless Brewers so hopefully the umps can keep this one close today.

Game 39: Pirates at Brewers

Karstens and Narveson at four.

Game 38: Pirates at Brewers

After last night's rainout, the Pirates remain a game under.

McDonald and Gallardo at eight.

Game 38: Dodgers at Pirates

18-19, but still three games back of St. Louis.

Maybe the Cardinals fell asleep at the wheel, waiting for the light to change.

Jon Garland and a Charlie Morton at seven.

Game 37: Dodgers at Pirates

Bucs at 18-18, three games behind St. Louis.

Kuroda and Maholm at seven.

Game 36: Dodgers at Pirates

Lilly and Correia at seven.

Beer fort in magnificent shape.

Game 35: Dodgers at Pirates

The Pirates, at 17-17, are moving in on first place in the NL Central.

The Dodgers, at 16-19, must envy the stable leadership of the Nutting family.

Billingsley and Karstens will start. Game on at seven.

Game 34: Astros at Pirates

McDonald and Happ at 1:35 as the Bucs attempt the unthinkable.

Call your mother.

Game 33: Astros at Pirates

Norris and a Charlie Morton at seven.

Game 32: Astros at Pirates

Pirate nemesis Wandy Rodriguez and playoff MVP Paul Maholm at seven.

Pirates are a game under .500 and 2 1/2 out of first.