The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired right-handed pitcher Ron Marinaccio from San Diego, in exchange for International signing bonus pool considerations. The 31-year-old Marinaccio went 1-0 with a 4.79 ERA in 47 innings and had 38 strikeouts across his 33 relief appearances with the Padres this ...
GENEVA — U.S. President Donald Trump’s role in clearing Folarin Balogun from a mandatory one-game ban at the World Cup is set to provoke a formal complaint to FIFA ethics investigators. The Norway soccer federation said Thursday its board of directors will consider filing the complaint at its next meeting, likely on Aug. 6. “We need our leader in FIFA to say that this was an error,” Norwegian federation president Lise Klaveness told London daily The Times in an interview published Thursday. After Trump called FIFA president Gianni Infantino, a one-game ban for Balogun’s ...
NEW YORK — Max Fried allowed one hit over five innings in his return from a two-month layoff, Jasson Dominguez and Anthony Volpe drove in runs on consecutive pitches in the seventh and the New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 Wednesday night for a doubleheader split. Pittsburgh ...
NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night was postponed because of a forecast of rain and will be made up as part of New York’s second doubleheader in a four-day span. New York announced the postponement about five hours before the scheduled ...
NEW YORK — Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered in consecutive at-bats against All-Star Braxton Ashcraft and drove in five runs, powering the New York Yankees to an 8-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night. Both benches and bullpens emptied after Jose Caballero bounced into an ...
The second half of this Major League Baseball season, which began this past weekend in Cleveland for the Pittsburgh Pirates, holds the promise of being one of the most interesting for the club in recent memory. Led by an offense which was tied for first place among all major league teams in ...
