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Baseball

Attendance at PNC Park sags, depending partly on the opponent

Barmes and Barajas have the worst OBP

Baseball could be expedited

Baseball from a front-seat row (in a parked car)

Baseball records are closer to .500 than football records

Baseball's new rules, proposed by Mike Kobik

Batting the pitcher eighth?  Doesn't matter much

BB/PA vs LHP doesn't matter much, either

Cold in April?  "This ain't my style," said Casey.

Competitors, to a sports franchise, are not the other teams

Computerized databases empower baseball stats geeks

Dizzy Dean "slood" into third

Duck (rubber variety) heralds Pirates' return to playoffs

Fans at big games are more fanatic nowadays, and noisier

Feast-or-famine games:  Pittsburgh Pirates 62%, Cardinals 32%

Fifth place proves good enough for "second-division" 2015 Mets

Food at the ballpark now includes Cracker Jack & Mac Dogs

“Games Behind” column disappoints 2019 Pirates fans

Games last 4:43 when the Pirates play the Nats

Half-games in the standings:  why divide by two?

"Hands" statue:  Counsell or Kiner?

Harry Caray at Wrigley Field

Innings piling up for pitchers?  Shorter season, or 6-man rotation

Inverted-pyramid newspaper style for a baseball "gamer" is confusing

Milestone afternoon homers by A-Rod and Maris

Minor-league baseball telecasts go away, attendance drops

Nicknames instead of real names on uniforms?  Not helpful

No-hitter:  I finally televise one!

Pirates briefly lead, then implode; TV crew remains jolly

Pirates' best starters have league's worst ERAs

Pirates lose 101 games in 2021 while Dodgers are winning 106

Pirates of 2022 lose by at least seven runs in more than 10% of games

Pitch clock planned for 2023 MLB games

Pitches total 1,500,000 in a broadcaster's career

Pittsburgh baseball nadir in 1890, before they became Pirates

Postgame show must begin immediately

Postseason games need a halftime

Relief pitchers usually get themselves into trouble

Ripken's night off from The Streak

Rooker's unintentional walk home from Philadelphia

Runs scoring “with two outs”

San Francisco pitchers buzzed me with warmup throws

Shortened 2020 season:  Pirates disappoint for 60 games

Slowness: more than four minutes between balls in play nowadays

Steve Blass is a funny guy

"Wasn't Watching" the baseball play, but the blimp was

Weekend Pirates games are wins; all other Pirates games are losses

Wilburys song could have introduced a telecast

Winning isn't everything

Winter baseball in Washington, PA

Wins-PIT are matched by Wins-STL for months; PIT can't gain ground

World Series?  Why is it "World"?

World Series 1927 press pass