Starling Marte News

Pittsburgh Pirates starter Jeanmar Gomez suffered through his worst start of the season against, of all teams, the Houston Astros on Friday night.

Box W:J.Wilson L:E.Gonzalez HR: HOU- M.Dominguez PIT- A.McCutchen , P.Alvarez Houston Top 1st - UMPIRES: Home,Dale Scott; First, CB Bucknor; Second, Todd Tichenor; Third, Bill Miller; - Robbie Grossman doubled to left center.

Travis Snider had not hit a home run in his first 104 plate appearances this season, so you'll have to excuse him for putting a little flair into his first.

It's early: Clint Hurdle's favorite caveat. Even the season's quarter-pole is still a few innings away.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are a few games out of first place but that has more to do with how good the St.

As that old pop song goes, "oops, he did it again." Sports Illustrated's Jon Heyman is asking questions about WAR: i like war.

Ryan Fowler has spent the past eight years covering and talking sports on TV and radio, in newspapers and on the Web.

And he endorsed Major League Baseball's Mother's Day program, and all the pink it entails.

Pedro Alvarez hit an RBI single against New York's overworked bullpen, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got a most fortunate bounce in beating the Mets 3-2 Sunday for a series win.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are starting to see results from their long rebuilding plan, and the growth of the farm system is a big reason for these results.

I got the feeling at the end of last year that fantasy baseball may be in the midst of a sea change.

Through a little more than one month this season, the Pirates have gotten some steady offensive production at first base.

Long answer: Tim Williams , Travis Sawchik and a few other people were discussing this earlier today on Twitter.

A fractured right arm had kept the left-hander on the bench all season, but he'll make his first start in a Bucs uniform at Citi Field on Saturday, opposite another southpaw in the Mets' Jon Niese.

The Curve offense will be without one of its top weapons for about two months at least, but Matt Curry is actually looking at his broken hamate bone in a positive light.

Garrett Jones hit a three-run homer - a call that was correctly overturned by baseball's beleaguered umps - and Wandy Rodriguez pitched the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-3 victory over the New York Mets on Friday night.

The Mets need an offensive spark these days, and they know first baseman Ike Davis could be the one to provide it.

In the early moments of Little Big League, young Billy Heywood is considering naming himself manager of the Twins and he gets grilled by the team's pitching coach about what to do in various baseball situations.

I don't know much about the Pirates, because I've never had a reason to, but I know that Starling Marte is an exciting young player of theirs and he bats leadoff so I can only assume he's a talented runner.

Felix Hernandez scattered six hits and Jesus Montero broke a tie with a solo home run in the seventh inning off A.J. Burnett to help the Seattle Mariners beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 Wednesday.