Pirates Hope Bay's Year Not Overlooked
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Barry Bonds didn't win it. Neither did Roberto Clemente. Since the National League Rookie of the Year award was first handed out 57 years ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates have never had a winner.
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When Pittsburgh came to Oakland for an interleague series last summer, Billy Beane couldn't believe Jason Kendall was the lone catcher on the Pirates' roster.
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A whirlwind three-day stretch that began happily ended the same way for Pirates outfielder Jason Bay when he won the Jackie Robinson National League Rookie of the Year award.
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This is the Adam LaRoche the Pittsburgh Pirates expected when they traded with Atlanta to get him last winter. They can only wonder where they would be in the NL Central standings if they had this LaRoche all season.
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Chris Young came within two outs of   pitching the first no-hitter in San Diego team history as the   Padres eased to a 6-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on   Friday to remain ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL   West.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7 -- Dave Williams pitched 6 1/3 shutout innings for his first victory in nearly three seasons and Jason Bay homered, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates past the Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0, on Tuesday night.
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After trying for three years to escape catcher Jason Kendall&#39;s contract, the Pirates finally have succeeded. The passing of physicals is all that stands in the way of the Pirates sending Kendall to the Oakland
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The Pittsburgh Pirates ran themselves into out after out with some of the worst baserunning imaginable. With Ian Snell on the mound, it hardly mattered.
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CHICAGO -- Chris Duffy hit his first two home runs of the season, including a tiebreaking shot in the ninth inning, as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-5 on Thursday.
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By Ryan Basen, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 10--When Monroe forward Asante' Cureton scored early in the fourth quarter to shrink the deficit to four points against Porter Ridge in Tuesday night's game, Pirates boys' coach Mike Helms was curious how his team would react.
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The pirates' booty keeps piling up at a record pace.
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Ronny Paulino's bases-loaded double highlighted the Pittsburgh Pirates' biggest rally in nearly three years Friday night, an eight-run splurge in the 10th inning that set up a 10-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
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Brian McCann is making his mark on the NL East pennant race. The Atlanta catcher hit two home runs to back seven shutout innings from Tim Hudson, and the Braves beat the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1 on Friday night.
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CHICAGO - Sammy Sosa homered for the first time in more than two weeks and Derrek Lee drove in three runs to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night.    Moises Alou and Neifi Perez also homered for the Cubs, who pulled within a half-game of idle San Francisco in the NL wild-card race...
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If former Pirates manager Jim Leyland returns to the dugout next season, it appears that it won&#39;t be with the Philadelphia Phillies.
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It's the time of year, Joe Torre said, when it doesn't matter whether you're seven games ahead or seven games behind.
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Dodgers manager Grady Little knows what a Derek Lowe no-hitter looks like. So when Lowe dominated the Pittsburgh Pirates for six exceptional innings, Little began thinking he might be watching baseball history repeat itself.