Kevin Hart News

From the cavernous Yankee Stadium, where Game 1 of the World Series was hours away from beginning on Wednesday , I bring you another Inbox edition.

A new Shaler Area High School club wants to call their peers and the community to action.

The end of another disappointing baseball season for Pittsburgh has arrived, as the Pirates will close out their 161-game slate with one last contest against the Reds at Great American Ball Park on Sunday afternoon.

After a few days of uncertainty as to who would pitch the Pirates' season finale on Sunday, manager John Russell announced how his rotation will fill out to finish up the season.

General manager Neal Huntington, pitching coach Joe Kerrigan and manager John Russell will huddle today to determine whether right-hander Kevin Hart will start Sunday's season finale.

Pirates pitcher Jose Ascanio had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder.

Overview Fall Training enters its final week starting with a four-game set against the 4A Pirates.

TV: Channel 9 Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon; Comcast SportsNet Plus Wednesday night; Comcast SportsNet Thursday Radio: WGN 720-AM Pitching matchups: The Cubs' Ryan Dempster vs.

Hmm. I seem to have fallen asleep before writing up a recap last night. Would you believe me if I told you the following things happened? Kevin Hart struggled with the strike zone and pitched poorly.

For as much as I expected the Cubs to finish the season strong, it wasn't going to make up for the fact that a number of teams in front of them in the Wild Card chase are not only better composed, but are actually riding pretty good hot streaks.

The statistics will show that the Pirates are Major League Baseball's best defensive team.

Ryan Dempster is a class act, as we all know -- but today, Gordon Wittenmyer tells us more about what Dempster had to go through after his daughter was born with a rare congenital disease, and notes that the toughest person on Ryan Dempster is... Ryan Dempster: Dempster has a hard time accepting that he didn't pitch better when things were most ...

The Pirates' struggles away from PNC Park in 2009 are unmatched. On Tuesday, the club begins a seven-game road trip through Chicago and Cincinnati to close out the season in which it has won just 19 of 74 games on the road.

It was another sign that this version of Reds pitcher Homer Bailey was better and stronger than any previous one that was seen in the big leagues.

Manager John Russell, in an attempt to get his reeling club to relax and enjoy a game that hasn't been all that pleasurable for some time now, met with his players in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

Right-hander Kevin Hart was lit up in his ninth start for the Pirates tonight at PNC Park, giving up eight runs on eight hits in 4.1 innings in an eventual 12-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.

The Pirates don't intend for Wednesday to be Kevin Hart's final start of the season, but the way in which Hart pitches against the Reds could certainly determine which start is.

On a day when Joe Torre rested five regulars, backup infielder Ronnie Belliard went 3 for 3 with a double, homer and walk to lead the Dodgers to a 3-1 victory over Pittsburgh.

VS. PITTSBURGH When: Noon Where: Dodger Stadium On the air: TV: Prime Ticket. Radio: 790, 930 Probable pitchers: Hiroki Kuroda vs.

Pitcher Kevin Hart is 1-4 since joining the Pirates. Perhaps the key today for Kevin Hart would be to switch uniforms.