PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Oneil Cruz exited his most recent game earlier than expected after an injury. Cruz, facing the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on July 12, hit a single in the top of the eighth inning, but limped afterwards, still getting to first base.

The reigning AL Cy Young winner and the best young pitcher in baseball will be on the mound for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game next Tuesday at Truist Park in Atlanta. Detroit Tigers lefty Tarik Skubal and Pittsburgh Pirates righty Paul Skenes have been named the All-Star Game starting pitchers. Fox's Saturday night MLB broadcast made the announcement.

Detroit's Tarik Skubal and Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes were named Saturday as the starting pitchers for Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Atlanta.Skubal, 10-3 this season, was last year's AL Cy Young Award winner as best pitcher after capturing the Triple Crown by leading the AL with 18 wins 228 strikeouts and a 2.

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes will take the mound to start his second All-Star game, being named the National League's first pitcher of t

Paul Skenes is the best pitcher in the National League. The Pittsburgh Pirates should be ashamed of how they're using the former LSU star.

The Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday presented the final plans for the installation of commemorative bronze plaques at PNC Park, adorning the messages originally displayed at the ballpark as part of the “Bucco Bricks” program.

After 144 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates are back in neutral. Somehow, the Pirates have won exactly as many games as they've lost, a stretch that dates back to their inaugural season as 1992. They've fallen back to .500 all-time because of an eight-game losing streak. The Twins and cycle-hitting Byron Buxton beat Pittsburgh on Saturday.