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Personalities & Off-field2024
Marcano's Lifetime Ban
Major League Baseball banned Tucupita Marcano for life for betting on baseball, including 25 bets on Pirates games while he was on Pittsburgh's roster. It was the first lifetime gambling ban since Pete Rose in 1989.
San Diego Padres · Pittsburgh Pirates
Fielding Fiascos2021
Craig Chases Báez
A throw pulled Will Craig off first base with two outs. Instead of getting back to the bag, he chased Javier Báez toward home. Willson Contreras scored from second, and Báez ended up on second base.
Chicago Cubs · Pittsburgh Pirates
Front Office & Trades2018
Archer to Pittsburgh
At the 2018 deadline Pittsburgh sent Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows, and Shane Baz to Tampa Bay for Chris Archer. Archer's earned-run average in Pittsburgh stayed over 5. Meadows and Glasnow became the players the prospects had been advertised as.
Pittsburgh Pirates · Tampa Bay Rays
No. 2008.08.21
2008
August 21
Front Office & Trades2008
Bautista for Diaz
On August 21, 2008, Pittsburgh sent Jose Bautista to Toronto on waivers for a player to be named. Four days later the player was catcher Robinzon Diaz.
Toronto Blue Jays · Pittsburgh Pirates
No. 2000.10.03
2000
October 3
Pitching Disasters2000
Rick Ankiel Loses the Plate
Rick Ankiel was twenty-one, a phenom, and ahead 6–0 in his first playoff start. In the third inning he threw five wild pitches and could not find the strike zone.
St. Louis Cardinals · Atlanta Braves
No. 1959.05.26
1959
May 26
Pitching Disasters1959
Twelve Perfect Innings
Harvey Haddix retired 36 batters in a row and lost in the thirteenth. Joe Adcock's ball cleared the fence, and the next day the league president made it a double.
Pittsburgh Pirates · Milwaukee Braves
No. 1925.10.15
1925
October 15
Fielding Fiascos1925
Peckinpaugh's Eight Errors
The American League's Most Valuable Player committed eight errors in the 1925 World Series, two of them in a rainy seventh game the Senators led.
Washington Senators · Pittsburgh Pirates
Baserunning Blunders1908
Merkle's Boner
Fred Merkle, nineteen and starting in place of an injured regular, failed to touch second on a game-winning single. The league made the teams replay it, and the Cubs won the pennant.
New York Giants · Chicago Cubs