8/13 Through the 1950s: Friend Gem, Kiner #200, Scoutin', ABC Affair, Even Up, Ned's 1st, Game Days, HBD Mudcat, Vinegar Bend, Sid, Good Kid & Steve

1889 - Ned Hanlon won his managerial debut with the Alleghenys in a 9-0 thumping of the Beaneaters at Exposition Park. Pud Galvin tossed a five-hitter for the first Pittsburgh win of the season against Boston, which had taken the previous 11 matches. Galvin added a pair of hits, including a triple, and Jocko Fields and Jack Rowe contributed two knocks.

1894 - The Pirates sent LHP George Nicol and cash to Louisville for RHP Jock Menefee. Nicol was blasted as a pitcher for the Colonels but showed some promise as an outfielder, batting .351 for the two teams over the year. Still, it would be his last in MLB. He played on through 1905, but spent the last 11 campaigns in the minors. Jock was also a part-time OF’er, but only got into two games with the Pirates. He did stick around the league, and after bouncing around some, Menefee spent 1900-03 with the Chicago Orphans/Cubs with a line of 37-36/3.20.

1902 - The Bucs split a twin bill with the Boston Beaneaters at the South End Grounds. They lost the opener 8-6 when ace Jack Chesbro blew a four-run lead in the eighth, giving up six scores. Tommy Leach doubled, homered and scored three times in a losing cause. They took the nightcap 6-1 behind Deacon Phillippe. Wid Conroy had three hits, while Honus Wagner and Jesse Tannehill added a pair of knocks. The Bucs tortured Boston C Pat Moran, stealing seven bases, including second, third and home by The Flying Dutchman. Wagner became the first Pirate to steal second, third and home and pulled off the feat four times during his career. Other Pirates larcenists to swipe a three-pack were Max Carey (2), Kiki Cuyler and Bobby Byrne.

1903 - RHP Steve Swetonic was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County. A Pitt grad, he pitched for the Bucs from 1929-33 and in 1935 with a line of 37-36/3.81. He won 11 games in 1932 and tied for the league lead in shutouts with four. He spent his entire MLB career in Pittsburgh (he was briefly a Brave; the Bucs sold him to Boston but they returned him because of a bum wing); he then retired young at 28 because of his chronic sore arm.

1907 - C George “Good Kid” Susce was born in Pittsburgh. The local lad spent one of his eight big league seasons with the Pirates in 1939, hitting .227. After his career, Susce was a coach (mostly bullpen) for the Kansas City A's (1955-1956), Milwaukee Braves (1958-1959), Louisville Colonels (1960), Washington Senators (1961-1967), Jacksonville Suns (1968), Senators again (1969-1971), and the Texas Rangers (1972). He got his nickname as a rookie because he cheerfully did all the little housekeeping and hazing tasks that teams trot their young players through. His tradition carried on - to this day there’s a program that helps youngsters deal with social issues that’s called the George “Good Kid” Susce Foundation based in Richmond.

Good Kid Susce - photo via Detroit Public Library

1910 - The Pirates and Brooklyn Superbas met at Washington Park for a twin bill, and the opener took 13 frames, with Pittsburgh coming out on top 3-2. All the scoring was in extra innings, with Babe Adams and “Medicine Man” Scanlon each giving up a 10th inning run. The next three frames were turned over to Deacon Phillippe and Nap Rucker. Pittsburgh pushed a pair of runs over the plate in the 13th. Tommy Leach scored when Dots Miller worked a free pass with the bases jammed (after Honus Wagner had been intentionally walked to get to him), and Mike Flynn’s sac fly brought home Fred Clarke. Brooklyn fought back; Jake Daubert’s homer cut the lead to one and with two outs and a runner on, Jack Dalton drilled a ball deep to left, but Clarke ran it down. There was a lot more action in the nitecap, but it was called because of darkness with the score tied 8-8. According to Baseball Almanac & AP, the second match may have been the most evenly played contest in baseball annals: Both teams finished the game with exactly eight runs, thirteen hits, thirty-eight at bats, five strikeouts, three walks, one hit batter, one passed ball, thirteen assists, twenty-seven putouts and two errors with two pitchers used. (The numbers are close to the Press box score but not quite so exact, so we’re not sure which scorebook was right)

1916 - The Pirates lost the opener of a twin bill against the Cards 9-8 at Robison Field. The Bucs’ sticks stayed hot and put up eight runs in the first two innings of the nitecap, and while the visiting Pirates scurried to get five innings in, the Cards began to delay in hopes of darkness riding to the rescue. St. Louis stole 11 bases, while the Bucs added three as neither side challenged the swipes, both hoping to work the clock to their advantage. The game went five frames in a 9-5 Buc win, but led to an eventual rule change. 1920 saw the genesis of today’s defensive indifference rule, as uncontested stolen bases would not be credited.

1917 - OF/3B Sid Gordon was born in Brooklyn. Sid spent 13 years in the majors as one of its better sluggers. He homered at least once in every park in which he played in three seasons, was a two-time All-Star and had twice as many walks as whiffs during his career. He joined the Bucs in the 1953 off-season as part of the six-for-one deal that sent Danny O’Donnell to the Braves. Even though he was in his late 30s, he hit .290 with a dozen HR and 50 RBI in 147 games before being sold to the NY Giants, his original club, where he finished out the ‘55 campaign and retired. Sid was elected to the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

1923 - The Bucs beat the Brooklyn Robins 5-2 at Ebbets Field. Charlie Grimm had three hits and two RBI, and Max Carey stole second, third and home to back Lee Meadow’s four-hitter. Carey ended up the National League steals leader with 51 swiped sacks on the year.

Max Carey - 2001 SP Legendary Cuts

1926 - The ABC Affair concluded with Babe Adams, Carson Bigbee and Max Carey cut loose from the club. Adams had been a World Series hero, Bigbee had over a decade’s service with the team, and Carey was a Hall of Fame player. But they crossed management by holding a team meeting to complain of an odd management dynamic - Bill McKechnie was the manager, but the owner, Barney Dreyfuss, had Fred Clarke sit on the bench every game, leaving the players befuddled as to who was in charge. After the ABC heads rolled, Clarke never sat on the bench again (and in fact severed ties with his long-time team) and Dreyfuss fired McKechnie after the season. Another dynamic may have been some old-fashioned house cleaning: Per SABR’s Stephen Rice “Adams, at age 44, was done after nearly 3,000 innings pitched for the Pirates in 18 seasons. Bigbee, a reserve outfielder, was no longer needed after 11 seasons with the team. And Carey, the team captain in his 17th year with the club, was also let go.” 

1928 - Several thousand Boy Scouts gathered at Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park and marched to Forbes Field behind a 20-piece band. The boys did a lap around the yard, then stopped at home plate where Bucco owner Barney Dreyfuss was made an honorary First Class scout of Rodef Shalom’s Troop #5 and presented with a Scout’s Manual. Then the youngsters trooped to the stands to watch the Pirates thump the Brooklyn Robins 6-1 behind Ray Kremer, who not only tossed a six-hitter to earn his merit badge but chipped in a pair of RBI.

1930 - LHP Wilmer “Vinegar Bend” Mizell was born in Vinegar Bend, Alabama (or thereabouts, anyway). The Pirates sent 2B Julian Javier to St Louis for Mizell in May of 1960, and in four months he won 13 games to help carry the Bucs to the 1960 championship. In parts of three seasons, Mizell’s Bucco line was 21-16/3.94. He was nearing the end of his career and the Pirates shipped him to the NY Mets in 1962, and he retired at season’s end. He became a politician after baseball and went on to serve in local offices and as a three-term congressman from North Carolina after he stepped off of the slab.

1930 - The Pirates won their fourth game in a row, scoring exactly eight runs in each victory, by dropping the Philadelphia Phillies 8-4 at Forbes Field. Paul Waner had three hits and a homer while pitcher Ray Kremer helped himself with his stick by also going yard.

Mudcat Grant - 1971 Topps

1935 - RHP Jim “Mudcat” Grant was born in Lacoochee, Florida. Mudcat made 50 appearances for Pittsburgh with a 7-4-7/3.41 line but never tossed in the playoffs - he was acquired too late in 1971 (September) to be eligible for the roster and was sent to Oakland before the 1972 postseason began. His nickname was bestowed on him in the minors when a teammate dubbed him Mudcat, mistakenly believing that he hailed from Mississippi, the home of the mudcat catfish. At least that’s his story; another claims that his Indians’ MLB roomie Lary Doby pinned it on him when he claimed that Grant was as “ugly as a Mississippi mudcat.” Ouch.

1950 - Pittsburgh took a twin bill from the Chicago Cubs by 7-4 and 2-0 scores at Forbes Field. The Bucs rode a six-run fifth inning to victory in the opener. Gus Bell had three hits, including two doubles, while Ralph Kiner (#200) and Danny O’Connell homered. Cliff Chambers went the distance for the win. Mel Queen was the story in the nitecap, tossing a complete game five-hitter with 11 K. Johnny Hopp went 4-for-4 and was a homer shy of the cycle.

1953 - The Pirates fell behind three times but overcame the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 at Forbes Field when Hal Rice’s eighth inning fly scored Cal Abrams with the game winner. Frank Thomas had a pair of solo homers to back Lefty LaPalme’s pitching. For the Bucs, it was a rare bright spot of the summer: the victory was their only win in a dozen game stretch.

1957 - Bob Friend was dealing as he tossed a two-hit shutout against the Phillies, winning 6-0 at Connie Mack Stadium. He was hooked up in a 2-0 duel with Warren Hacker through six innings before Bill Mazeroski chased Hacker with a two-run two-bagger in the seventh. Pittsburgh iced it in the eighth on a run-scoring error and Hank Foiles two-out RBI knock. Maz had a big day, with his two-run, second-inning homer with two gone giving Friend some early breathing room. Friend said after the game that he had fallen in love with his curve “...but now I’ve learned that the fastball is my best pitch.”

1958 - Though nicked by three-run pinch-hit homers off the bats of Rip Repulski and Bob Bowman, the Pirates nosed the Phils 10-9 at Connie Mack Stadium for their seventh straight victory. Roberto Clemente had two homers (his first ever multi-homer game), Maz added one more dinger, and Ted Kluszewski doubled and tripled to lead the Bucco attack.

8/13 From 1960: Paul & Kip Gems, B-Rey-Neil-Jermaine-Barry-Scoops & Roberto Big Boppers, Game Days, Jamo Out, HBD Jonah, Tom & Jeff

1963 - LHP Jeff Ballard was born in Billings, Montana. After five years with the Orioles, he worked for Pittsburgh from 1993-94, getting into 43 games and going 5-2-2/5.42 to close out his career. Ballard didn’t exactly end up on the street afterward. He had earned a degree in geophysics from Stanford University and plied his trade in Montana, spending his spare time as an organizer for the Billings American Legion baseball program.

1964 - C Tom Prince was born in Kankakee, Illinois. Prince started his career in Pittsburgh (1987-93) as a backup catcher behind Mike LaValliere and Don Slaught. In 177 games for the Pirates, he hit .177. Despite his bat, he played for five teams and parts of 17 seasons in the show before hanging up his spikes in 2003. He was a Buc minor league manager beginning in 2005 and in 2017 was promoted to the show as Clint Hurdle’s bench coach. When the new regime took over in 2019, Prince was hired by Detroit to manage their AAA club, Toledo and held the post until 2021. His previous work as a skipper was managing three games with the Pirates in 2019 when Clint Hurdle was attending a funeral.

1969 - Roberto Clemente hit three homers for the second time in his career to lead the Bucs to a 10-5 win over the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park; the trio were hit in consecutive at bats off Mike McCormick (2) and Bobby Bolin. He had four hits, four RBI and four runs to back Jim Bunning’s win, saved by Bob Moose. And to keep his run of fours going, he used four different bats during the game. Roberto made the Pirates' prior protest a moot point; manager Larry Shepherd had filed one early in the game after the umpires reversed a call.

1973 - The Pirates hung on to take a 3-2 win from the rival Reds at TRS. Willie Stargell had three hits, including a homer, and started a two-out, two-run rally with a single in the fourth. He was busy; Pops was also thrown out at home repping an insurance run in the eighth when ump Bob Engel said he missed home with his slide, a charge Willie and manager Bill Virdon argued unsuccessfully. The three runs proved enough for Nellie Briles, Ramon Hernandez and Dave Giusti. There was some off-field action, too - Stargell was named the NL Player of the Week and extended his 13-game hitting streak (it ended the next day), while for the second straight trip to Pittsburgh, Johnny Bench received a death threat over the phone and was escorted around town by security guards. 

Al Oliver - 1974 Topps

1974 - Al Oliver had three hits, including a two-run homer, and drove home five runs as the Pirates pounded the Reds 14-3 at Riverfront Stadium. Larry Demery spun a complete-game victory as Pittsburgh edged over .500 and moved to 1-1/2 games of first-place St. Louis. Richie Zisk had four knocks, three runs plated & scored twice, Richie Hebner added four more raps with an RBI & three runs, Rennie Stennett touched home three times on three hits and Ed Kirkpatrick banged a homer as the Bucs swatted out 21 hits. For Zisk, it was his 10th straight game with an RBI, a streak that would end the next day.

1980 - RHP Jonah Bayliss was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. Bayliss came over to Pittsburgh as the key figure in the Mark Redman trade, but never panned out. He spent 2006-07, the last two seasons of his three-year career, in Pittsburgh and went 5-4 with a 7.22 ERA in 16 outings from the pen, showing good stuff but poor control. He’s now a pitching coach/trainer and operates a baseball academy.

1988 - Barry Bonds was the Big Bopper, pounding two homers among his four hits while scoring three times and driving home five runs in a 10-4 Pirates victory over the Phils at the Vet with his proud pappy part of the 35,432 fans in the yard. He was a one-man show as the Bucs only totaled three other hits, although ten walks kept the basepaths lit. Rafael Belliard scored three times without a hit, reaching five times via three walks, a HBP and Philly error. Rookie Rick Reed started and chased early; Jeff Robinson tossed five scoreless innings for the win.

1988 - The Pirates sent RHP Barry Jones to the White Sox for LHP Dave LaPoint. LaPoint tossed well as a rental for the Bucs, going 4-2/2.77 in eight starts before signing with the Yankees in the offseason. Jones lasted in the league until 1993, with a strong stretch with Chicago and then as part of the Montreal Expos as he developed into a MLB late-inning arm through 1991.

1996 - Jermaine Allensworth homered twice with a grand slam and five RBI. John Wehner smacked a pinch-hit homer, giving the club the franchise mark for most pinch hit swats in a season with nine (the ‘44 Bucs had eight). Jay Bell also bopped a two-run shot as the Pittsburgh offense rang up 10 runs. Still, it just ended up their 13th loss in the past 16 games as they dropped a 12-10 match to the Giants at TRS when San Fran rode a six-run eighth inning to victory.

Jermaine Allensworth - 1997 Fleer Rookie Sensation

1998 - The Reds jumped on the Pirates for five first-inning runs at Cinergy Field, but the Bucs had the last laugh by roaring back to take a 9-6 win and sweep the three-game series. The Pittsburgh comeback started in the fourth with a Tony Womack solo shot, with two more tallies in the fifth keyed by back-to-back doubles by Al Martin & Freddy Garcia, a four-spot in the sixth behind a two-run Kevin Young homer & Lou Collier’s triple that chased another pair home with Jason Kendall & Martin RBI knocks in the seventh for insurance. The Pirates used six pitchers with Jeff McCurry getting the win and Ricardo Rincon earning a save. The attack was balanced - four Bucs had multi-hit days (Martin led the parade with three) while six different Pirates either scored or chased home two runs.

2003 - Pittsburgh scored twice in the eighth to take the lead, then the Cards came back to tie it 5-5 in the ninth at PNC Park. But with two away and the bases empty in their half, Pittsburgh, thanks to some off-the-book strategy by Tony LaRussa, walked away with the win. After two routine outs, Jason Kendall doubled, and St. Louis intentionally walked both Brian Giles and Reggie Sanders to load the bases for Randall Simon. Simon fell behind Pedro Borbon 0-2, then shot a single through the left side to plate Kendall with the game winner as the free passes blew up in LaRussa’s face. Craig Wilson was big with a pair of HRs.

2005 - Kip Wells dueled Roger Clemens at Minute Maid Park as the Bucs nosed the Astros 1-0. The game eventually became a battle of the bullpens, and Jack Wilson’s ninth-inning, 0-2 count homer off Brad Lidge was the difference. Salomon Torres claimed the win, saved by Jose Mesa. The Bucs hurlers dodged some raindrops to frustrate the ‘Stros - although Houston put up six hits and drew four walks, they stranded 11 runners.

2007 - Paul Maholm tossed a three-hit complete game to lead the Bucs past the Giants 3-1 at PNC Park. The big blow was a two-out, two-run double by Jose Castillo off San Francisco’s Matt Cain in the first inning on an 0-2 pitch. The win was in the opener of a twilight doubleheader and pushed the Bucs winning streak to four (five straight was the longest victory string of the season), which ended with a 10-3 whipping in the second game. Also OTD, Tom Gorzelanny was named co-NL Player of the Week with Troy Tulowitzki after winning two games, including a shutout, and giving up two runs in 16 IP on nine hits.

Paul Maholm - 2007 Upper Deck

2015 - 2B Neil Walker became the first Pirates player to collect a hit from both sides of the plate during the same inning in the expansion era (1962 forward) as the Bucs erupted for seven runs in the opening frame. Pittsburgh never looked back in taking a 10-5 win from St. Louis at Busch Stadium, with Frankie Liriano twirling six innings for the victory. The Pittsburgh Kid finished the game 3-for-5, falling a home run shy of hitting for the cycle while Pedro Alvarez also added three hits, including a home run, to help cage the Redbirds.

2019 - RHP Jameson Taillon went under the knife; it was hoped the operation would be just to repair an elbow flexor, but ended up his second career TJ surgery once the arm was opened and the damage determined. After a 14-10/3.21 2018 campaign, he was counted on to lead the staff in 2019, but instead the 27-year-old worked just seven starts and was placed on the IL on May 1st. It appeared that conservative rehab was turning the trick, but he felt pain while throwing in July and underwent the surgical procedure. He was back in action in 2021, but as a member of the Yankees after NY swung a January prospects deal for him; Jamo later tossed for the Chicago Cubs and now is with the Toronto Blue Jays.

2021 - Young Hi-A Greensboro RHP Quinn Priester, 20, the 18th overall pick in 2019, had his development slowed thanks to a short 2019 season, then the minors were canceled in 2020, and he got off to a slow start in 2021. He was ranked among the game’s Top 60 Prospects going into the year, and showed why by kicking it into gear during the second half of the ‘21 campaign, appearing in the All Star Futures Game and capped by an immaculate sixth inning (nine pitches = three K) on this date against Winston-Salem. In that game, he spun seven scoreless frames, giving up six hits/two walks and fanning a career-high 10 batters to earn a 4-1 win. He missed the early part of 2022 with an oblique strain, recovering to make yo-yo appearances in the Pirates rotation in 2023-34. Quinn’s numbers (5-9/6.46 ERA/5.84  FIP) weren’t up to expectations and he was traded to the Boston Red Sox at the 2024 deadline for UT Nick Yorke; both were sent to AAA. The Red Sox flipped him to Milwaukee in ‘25, where a longer leash (and newly acquired cutter) shepherded him to the promised land until wrist soreness led to thoracic outlet surgery that cost him the 2026 season.

2025 - The beat(down) continued as Milwaukee completed a three-game sweep of the Bucs with a 12-5 win as Mitch Keller and a way over-extended bullpen were whacked at American Family Field. Bryan Reynolds did his best (he went 3-for-4 with two homers and five RBIs) and at one point single-handedly cut the deficit to 6-5, but his one-man flex couldn't stop the Brewers, who were on a 12-game winning streak. Pittsburgh was outscored 33-6 during the series.

8/12 Through the 1970s: Ouch!, 11-HRs, Jose Mark, Roofer Jerry, Al Attack, Streaks, Middle Muscle, Gems, Game Days, HBD Paul, Watty, Andy & Dan

1867 - OF Dan Lally was born in Jersey City. He played two seasons in the majors and had a long minor league career from at least 1887 to 1905 where he put up a .308 lifetime BA. He made two stops in the show, hitting .224 as a Pirate in 1891 and then landing a one-year starting gig at St. Louis where he batted .279 in 1897. After his playing days, Daley became a minor league ump for a season (1907), but sadly ended up in an insane asylum by 1910.

1871 - RHP Andy Dunning was born in New York City. Andy didn’t have much of a career with the Alleghenys, pitching two games (both complete) and losing both, giving up 19 runs on 20 hits with 16 walks and 18 stolen bases in 1889. But he could be excused; at 17, he was the youngest player to appear in a game for Pittsburgh. Dunning’s pro career covered what should have been his prep years; he first tossed professional ball for the Bridgeport Giants of the Eastern League as a 15-year-old, threw his last MLB pitch at 19 for the NY Giants and retired when he was 21 after he was released from the New England League.

1879 - LHP Wyatt “Watty” Lee was born in Lynch Station, Virginia. Lee played three campaigns as a Washington Senator before closing out his career with Pittsburgh in 1904, with a slash of 1-2/8.74 in three starts. He was a hybrid, also playing outfield, and he hit better than he tossed, going 4-for-12. Those eight games were the end of Lee's major league career, but he went on to a long run in the minors. He continued to split his time between pitching and the outfield until 1909, when he returned full time to the bump. He finished his pro career in 1917 with the Richmond Virginians of the International League, but played semi-pro sandlot ball until he was 52.

1895 - RHP Paul Carpenter was born in Granville, Ohio. He pitched for the Bucs in 1916 as a 22-year-old, doing pretty well in five games as a reliever, giving up eight hits and four walks in 7-2/3 IP but yielding only one earned run in his five games. That was the end of his MLB days; he worked in the minors through 1919.

1915 - Al Mamaux tossed a three-hitter in a 4-0 win over the NY Giants at Forbes Field, his eighth shutout of the year. Doug Baird led the offense, going 3-for-3 with a double and two runs scored. Ralph Davis of the Pittsburgh Press noted that Giant skipper John McGraw wasn’t in the coaching boxes and asked a NY writer about his absence. He was told that “Mac is disgusted with the bunch he is piloting this year...who are tied to long term contracts and not hustling.”

Al Mameaux - 1915 colorized photo/Paul Thompson

1918 - Pittsburgh bats boomed in a 12-1 win over the Chicago Cubs at Weeghman Field. The middle of the order (Billy Southworth, George Cutshaw and Fritz Mollwitz) went 9-for-13 with a walk, eight runs scored and four driven home. Southworth had four hits while Cutshaw and Walter Schmidt had three raps. Carmen Hill went the distance, firing a seven-hitter.

1922 - The Pirates won their 13th game in a row by a 6-0 count over the Cincinnati Reds as Charlie Grimm collected three hits and Babe Adams tossed a whitewash at Forbes Field. The streak ended the next day after a struggle when the Redlegs squeaked out a 5-4 win in 10 innings.

1940 - The Bucs won their 11th-of-12 games over the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 at Forbes Field. The Pirates attack was led by Arky Vaughan, Maurice Van Robays and Al Lopez, who had two hits each, to support Max Butcher, who scattered nine hits while going the distance in front of a Monday night crowd of 42,254, setting a new single-game attendance record.

1946 - OF Al Gionfriddo got off the bench and went on a tear, banging out 10 hits in three games for the Pirates, going 4-for-5 once and 3-for-4 twice at Forbes Field. Alas, the streak snapped and four days later, he was back on the pine. He only had three other multi-hit games and 16 more knocks during the campaign. He was traded to Brooklyn in May of 1947 and got his moment in the limelight when he robbed Joe Dimaggio of extra bases in the World Series.

1958 - The red hot Pirates beat the Braves 10-0 behind the two-hit pitching of George “Red” Witt to move into second place, five games behind Milwaukee. 36‚867 Pirate fans jammed Forbes Field to see them win their 17th game of the last 22. Frank Thomas had a homer, a double and three RBI while Bill Mazeroski and Bill Virdon banged out three hits each.

Roberto - 2003 Donruss Team Heroes

1959 - It was 2-2 going into the seventh at Connie Mack Stadium, but Roberto Clemente would change that in a heartbeat. The Phils’ Robin Roberts gave up back-to-back singles and a walk, but after a K and foul pop, he needed just one more out to dodge a seventh inning bullet. But he couldn’t duck Clemente, who rifled a shot into left center for a bases-emptying triple, and then came in on Rocky Nelson’s knock through the left side. Per BR Bullpen, Roberts lamented after the game that “I wish I'd thrown the ball as hard as he hit it." Harvey Haddix went the distance, giving up seven hits during his 6-2 win.

1964 - The Pirates started two of baseball’s primo pinch hitters against the Mets at Forbes Field and the move resulted in a 5-4 win and a record book blast. Manny Mota and Jerry Lynch were in the pasture; Mota had two hits and scored in front of Lynch’s three-run blast that cleared the right field roof, only the ninth ball launched entirely out of the yard. That bomb gave Pittsburgh a 5-0 fifth-inning lead, and though starter Joe Gibbon got roughed up, the Bucco bullpen preserved his win with Al McBean, the fourth twirler, spinning a 1-2-3 ninth for the save.

1966 - Pittsburgh beat the Reds 14-11 in 13 innings at Crosley Field, scoring in the ninth, 10th, 11th and 13th frames before finally wresting the win from Cincinnati. Art Shamsky had a day against the Bucs as he hit three homers, one tying it in the ninth and another to knot the score in the 11th. There were 11 long balls slammed by the two teams, tying a MLB record. Going yard for the Bucs were Bob Bailey (2), Willie Stargell, Roberto Clemente, Jesse Gonder, and Jerry Lynch, his 18th pinch-hit bomb, an MLB record. The Pirates sixth pitcher, Tommie Sisk, hurled one-hit ball over the last two innings to earn the victory.

1969 - Jose Pagan's two-run homer against the San Francisco Giant’s Gaylord Perry at Candlestick Park was his second consecutive pinch-hit dinger and tied the then-major league record (broken by Lee Lacy in 1979). It wasn’t nearly enough help as the Bucs fell to the G-Men 6-2.

Dock Ellis - 2021 Topps Project 70 Custom Chinatown Market

1973 - Manager Bill Virdon told Dock Ellis to quit wearing curlers during warm ups, as it was drawing unfavorable notice from the umpires and GM Joe Brown. Ellis ranted a bit about the decree to Charlie Feeney of the Post Gazette and added that “I know the orders came from Bowie Kuhn and I don’t like it.” He was right about that. The image-conscious commissioner threatened to fine and suspend Ellis if he continued to take pre-game practice in curlers in a letter, although it was unclear if it was sent to the club or to Ellis himself. Like it or not, the Docktor relented and limited the curlers to the clubhouse. It didn’t get any better after the game. Richie Hebner, who had been pulled in the ninth inning for Gene Alley during the day’s 5-2 Pirates win, went in Virdon’s office after the game and cussed The Quail; the 42-year-old Virdon chased down The Gravedigger, now sitting in the locker room, and told him “Stand up and say that.” Richie didn’t, and Virdon left, saying that Hebner “...doesn’t have a gut in his body.” Virdon was upset over Hebner’s recent batting slump and lackadaisical play in the field.

1977 - Mets’ 2B Felix Millan suffered a broken collarbone compliments of Pirate catcher Ed Ott during a 6-5 Pirate victory at Three Rivers Stadium, ending Millan's 12-year MLB career (he lost the rest of the season and then took his game to Japan). Ott took out Milan on a hard slide into second, Millan responded with a shot to Ott’s face, and the Pirate catcher body slammed him, earning Felix a bruised body and the Otter a $250 fine. As for the game, the back end of a twin bill, the Bucs won in the 12th when Duffy Dyer chased home Rennie Stennett with two outs after a single and steal. Phil Garner had three hits and a homer in the win, which went to Larry Demery, who tossed two-hit ball over four innings. The opener was hard fought, too, with Jim Rooker hurling the Bucs to a 3-2 win while driving in two runs in the second with a two-out, bases-loaded single after the Mets walked Dyer to get to him.

8/12 From 1980: Big Sticks, Giles - 30 HR, A-Rammin', Bond Bombs, Game Days, '94 Strike, HBD Kyle, Jhan & Jose

1987 - The Pirates had it all going against the first-place Cards at TRS, winning 11-0. Bob Walk tossed his fourth career shutout, a complete game four-hitter. Johnny Ray had three hits, the team banged out four doubles, and Andy Van Slyke collected his 500th MLB knock. Every Pirate but Barry Bonds scored and/or drove in a run and all but Junior Ortiz had a hit, including Walk, whose bases-loaded single became a little league homer after CF Willie McGee let it skitter past him. The shutout snapped the Cardinals’ 145-game streak without being whitewashed, just five short of the modern NL mark set by the 1924-25 Pirates. 

1988 - Jose Tabata was born in El Tigre, Venezuela. JT came over from the Yankees in a 2008 trade featuring Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte, and since 2010 has been in the show with various degrees of success after a promising rookie campaign, hampered by a variety of leg injuries and unfulfilled expectations. He signed a deal that ran from 2011-16 with three option years that the front office rather quickly regretted. He was traded to the Dodger for Michael Morse during the 2015 deadline period. He signed a minor-league deal with Toronto in 2017 and last played in the Latino leagues into 2022.

1988 - RHP Jhan Marinez was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Jhan is a journeyman reliever who caught on with the Pirates in 2017 after being waived by Milwaukee, going 0-1/3.18 in 24 games. His peripherals weren’t as shiny as his counting numbers and he was released in August, with Texas picking him up. Marinez has tossed for seven teams in his five big league campaigns and last worked in the MLB for the Orioles in 2018. Jhan tossed until 2021 in the Latin leagues, then played for the White Sox AAA Charlotte club in 2022 and since then has been twirling in the Mexican/Dominican Winter leagues. 

1989 - LHP Kyle Lobstein was born in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Pirates got him in the 2015 offseason from Detroit in a cash deal and he was traded to Baltimore for reliever Zach Phillips. In between, he tossed in 14 games from the pen for the Pirates in 2016, slashing 2-0/3.96. He pitched in Mexico after making three outings for the Nats in ‘21, pitched affiliated ball for a couple of years and is unrostered in '26.

1991 - Barry Bonds drove in all four Pirates runs with a pair of two-run homers, including a dramatic 11th inning two-run walkoff blast against Lee Smith that overcame a 3-2 Redbird lead and rallied the Bucs to a 4-3 victory against the Cards at TRS. Bob Patterson was the winner despite giving up the go-ahead run.

Barry Bonds - 1991 Fleer Pro Visions

1991 - IF Chris Owings was born in Charleston, South Carolina. The Pirates signed the 11-year jack-of-all-trades vet as a free agent in February, 2023. He failed to make the Opening Day roster, but didn’t exercise his opt-out clause and was assigned to Indy. He joined the big club in May, hit .160 in 10 games, and was returned to Indy in early June. He went to the Dodgers in ‘24, and was sent to AAA Oklahoma City. On July 30 he was released, becoming a free agent.

1992 - The Bucs held off the Mets 7-6 at Shea Stadium. It took 10 innings and an unorthodox call by skipper Jim Leyland. After losing the first batter in the 10th on a 3-2 pitch, Stan Belinda went full to the next hitter. Rather than wait for the result, Leyland stomped out to the mound and yanked his closer, bringing in Bob Patterson. As John Mehno of the Beaver County Times noted, Leyland figured Patterson had a better chance of throwing a strike, keeping the runner close and getting a fly ball out to avoid a first-and-third situation. Bob did all three. A later single and walk loaded the sacks for the Mets with two away, but Patterson got Eddie Murray (who to add to the drama was the MLB’s active grand slam leader at the time with 16) on a fly to seal the deal. He earned the save of Denny Neagle’s victory while Jay Bell led the attack by going 2-for-3 with a double, triple, two walks and three RBI. The Pirates were rollin’ - the win was the 12th in their past 13 games as the Corsairs won the division handily.

1993 - Jeff King dropped a liner over a drawn-in infield to give the Bucs a 5-4 walkoff win in the 11th inning against the Cards at TRS. Carlos Garcia opened the frame with a triple that was lost in the lights, and after a pair of intentional walks, King came through against Todd Burns, leaving the unlucky hurler with an 0-8 record. Steve Cooke started the game, relieved by Mark Petkovsek, Denny Nagle and eventual game-winner Joel Johnston. Garcia had four hits, Jay Bell banged out three knocks and Dave Clark added a solo homer.

1994 - The postseason and the last 50 games or so of the season were canceled due to a player's strike called by the MLBPA, led by Don Fehr and spurred by the owners’ desire for a hard salary cap. The World Series wasn’t played for the first time in 90 years. In the off-season, the owners declared an impasse and attempted to implement their own rules. The strike was ended by a ruling from US District Court (and now Supreme Court) judge Sonia Sotomayor at the end of March, 1995, just as the owners were prepared to start the season by using replacement players. She kept the old collective bargaining agreement in place until a new one could be reached. It led to a deal, and though the 1995 season was cut by approximately 20 games, ball games did begin again at the end of April. Ironically, the umpires decided to go on strike just as the union and owners settled, so the 1995 season opened with regular players, but pick-up umpires.

1995 - The Dodgers defeated the Pirates 11-10 in 11 innings thanks to a brain cramp from a rookie. With the winning run at 3rd base, Mitch Webster of the Dodgers swung at a pitch in the dirt to whiff. C Angelo Encarnacion blocked the ball and then scooped it up with his mask. LA manager Tommy Lasorda charged out of the dugout and appealed, citing a rule which awarded a runner two bases if a catcher intentionally touches a thrown ball with his mask. He was right (it’s called a catcher’s balk) and the winning run was waved home.

Angel Encarnacion - 1995 Donruss

2000 - The Bucs rode the bat of Aramis Ramirez to down the Arizona D-Backs 9-6 at Three Rivers Stadium. A-Ram went 3-for-4 with a homer and double, driving in five runs. He was helped by Jason Kendall who added two hits including a home run to earn Scott Sauerbeck the win despite three Snake long balls. The victory came during a rough stretch; the Pirates had lost the previous three games and went on to lose the next four.

2001 - Pittsburgh scored three times in the eighth inning and once again in the ninth frame to snatch a 7-6 win from the San Diego Padres at PNC Park. Light hitting Keith Osik had a big day, going 3-for-4 and driving in four runs, including the game-tying knock in the eighth. Aramis Ramirez homered in the ninth off Rodney Myers to give Josias Manzanillo the win.

2002 - Brian Giles became the third Pirate to hit 30 home runs in four consecutive seasons in a 10-6 loss to the Cardinals with his seventh-inning, two-out solo blast against Steve Kline at PNC Park. He matched Willie Stargell’s mark from 1970-73; both lag behind Ralph Kiner’s six straight seasons with 30+ from 1947-52, with a seventh thrown in during 1953 in a campaign split between Pittsburgh and the Cubs when he launched 35 long balls (seven as a Bucco). Between 1999-2002, Giles swatted 35+ homers/hit .298+/.400+ OPS each year while averaging over 100 walks to 75 Ks.

2007 - Tom Gorzelanny fired a five-hitter and Josh Phelps drove in four runs with a homer and a triple to lead the Bucs to a 5-0 win over the SF Giants at AT&T Park. Phelps had a nice run off the Bucs bench that season, slashing .351/.463/.629 in 95 PAs before moving to St Louis in 2008.

2012 - It was a big day for a couple of Bucco batters as Neil Walker went 5-for-5 with a walk, falling a triple shy of the cycle, while Clint Barmes banged his first and only career grand slam, a fitting penance for committing two prior errors. A nine-run fourth inning pretty much clinched it as the Pirates roared past San Diego at PNC Park 11-5. The Bucs sent 14 batters to the dish in the fourth, their biggest inning since 2010. The victory ended an 11-game home losing streak to the Padres the day after the Bucs had blown a six-run lead to lose 9-8 to SD, prompting Clint Hurdle to say "We kind of felt we got slapped by our girlfriend in front of our mother..." Erik Bedard was credited with the win, even though he lasted just five frames (four relievers put up zeroes behind him) while ex-Buc Ross Ohlendorf suffered the loss.

8/11 Through the 1970s: Otter Leads Rally, Bombin' Bill, Jerry Jam, Fan Fever, Batfest, Game Days, Josh NNL-ASG, TSN Willie, HBD Al, Dorn, Josh Jr, Woody & Dinty

1891 - IF Walter “Dinty” Barbare was born in Greenville, SC. He started 120 games for the Pirates from 1919-20 (he missed part of 1920 with a broken jaw), hitting .273. He was part of the package sent to Boston in the 1921 Rabbit Maranville trade. After his playing days were finished, Barbare remained in baseball by serving as a manager and umpire in the minor leagues.

1907 - LF Forrest “Woody” Jensen was born in Bremerton, Washington. He spent his whole MLB career in Pittsburgh between 1931-39. He hit .285 overall and started from 1935-37. His major league record of 696 at bats (he drew just 16 walks in 731 PAs) in 1936 stood until Matty Alou broke it in 1969 with 698 AB.

1921 - The Pirates tattooed Chicago pitching for 21 hits in a 12-9 slugfest win at Forbes Field, launched by a seven-run first inning. Though Wilbur Cooper was dented for 13 hits, he went the distance for the victory and contributed four knocks. Rabbit Maranville, Dave Robertson, Charlie Grimm and Tony Brottem had three raps while Carson Bigbee and Clyde Barnhart added two each. Everyone in the lineup scored and seven players chased home runs.

1930 - Josh Gibson Jr., the son of legendary slugger Josh Gibson, was born in the North Side and raised in the Hill, graduating from Schenley HS. He started as a Pittsburgh Crawford’s batboy when his dad was a Craw, and eventually played for the Homestead Grays as an IF from 1949-50. Josh broke his ankle playing for Farnham of the Canadian Provincial League the following season and retired. He went to work at Homestead’s US Steel plant, traveled as a black baseball ambassador and helped found the Josh Gibson Foundation with other family members. He passed away in 2003 after a fall at his home.

Josh Gibson - Helmar Oasis

1935 - The East-West Negro League All-Star game drew 25,000 to Comiskey Park. The fans got to watch an 11-inning thriller with the West winning 11-8. C Josh Gibson of the Pittsburgh Crawfords led the West attack with four hits. Pittsburgh was well represented. Besides Josh, Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston and Jimmy Crutchfield were West starters with Chet Williams and P Leroy Matlock as reserves. Charleston not only played, but was the manager.

1958 - The Bucs moved into a tie for second by whipping the league-leading Milwaukee Braves and Warren Spahn by a 6-4 count in front of Forbes Field’s biggest crowd of the year, 38,938. Bob Friend was tough until he faded in the ninth, with ElRoy Face coming on to record the final two outs. Bill Mazeroski had a big day with three hits, including a triple, and chased home three Buccos. Roberto Clemente and Bob Skinner chipped in a pair of knocks. It was the Pirates fifth straight win and their eighth consecutive home victory. The fans had the fever; the turnout was the second largest ever for a night game in Oakland since 1940 when 42,254 fans showed up to watch the Bucs tackle the first-place Reds.

1958 - RHP Dorn Taylor was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. Taylor joined the Pirates in 1981, signed as an undrafted free agent out of Pfeiffer College. He had a couple of tastes with the Pirates in 1987 and 1989, going 3-4/5.63 as a starter who was later converted to the pen. From 1988-90 he was an excellent starter at AAA Buffalo, posting sub-3 ERAs and showed well in spring camp, but never got an extended opportunity in the show. He closed out his career in Baltimore and coached HS baseball after he retired.

1960 - IF Al Pedrique was born in Valencia, Venezuela. He was a utilityman for the Pirates from 1987-88 while batting .259. Al managed in the minors after his retirement, had several MLB coaching stints, and is currently a minor league manager for Reading in the Philadelphia system.

1963 - The Houston Colt .45s were a batter away from victory at Forbes Field, but Roberto Clemente and Jerry Lynch played to the third out to give the Bucs a 2-1 walkoff win. Knuckleballer Skinny Brown, who had scattered six hits through the first eight innings, retired the first two Pirates in the ninth, but The Great One kept Pittsburgh alive with a ground ball single to right. Pinch hitter Lynch took the next flutterer from Brown and planted it in the right field stands to give ElRoy Face the win in relief of Joe Gibbons. The Bucs had the number of the second-year Colts; the win was the 11th in 14 meetings with the Space City nine.

Jerry Lynch - 1964 Topps

1966 - The Pirates scored three times in the ninth to defeat the NY Mets at Forbes Field by a 7-5 tally. Down 5-4 going into their last at-bats, Matty Alou opened with a single and was bunted to second. Roberto Clemente singled him home to tie the game, and Willie Stargell launched a bomb to win it. ElRoy Face won as the last of four relievers who combined to toss six scoreless innings against the Mets.

1977 - Pittsburgh rolled over the NY Mets 9-1 at TRS as Odell Jones tossed a five-hitter. Bill Robinson homered, doubled and drove in four runs. Rennie Stennett went 4-for-4 and Phil Garner 3-for-4. The Cobra, Dave Parker, added a pair of hits to record his second 22-game hitting streak of the season. He had lesser streaks just before and after this one; he banged out hits in 41-of-44 games between July 4th - August 23rd and never went hitless longer than two games during the year. 

1979 - The Pirates overcame an 8-0 deficit in the fifth to rally past the Phillies at Veterans Stadium 14-11. All but one of the Pirates' runs came home with two outs, as did 17 of their 23 hits. Ed Ott had four raps to lead Pittsburgh, including an eighth-inning game-icing grand slam off Tug McGraw & five RBI to go with three knocks from Omar Moreno, Tim Foli, Willie Stargell, John Milner and Bill Madlock. Moreno and Dave Parker also homered for the Bucs. Ott’s salami, his first in MLB, followed a car-crash collision and tag at home with Garry Maddox in the seventh that preserved the lead. 

1979 - Willie Stargell was featured on the cover of The Sporting News for the story “Sonic Boomer.” He was a boomer during the ‘79 season, going long 32 times for his highest HR production since 1973 and adding five more homers (and two MVP’s) during the NLCS and World Series. The honors kept coming: Pops was co-winner of the NL-MVP with Keith Hernandez and named co-Sportsman of the Year with Steelers QB Terry Bradshaw by Sports Illustrated.

8/11 From 1980: Cutch Crunch, Freddy Ready, Quick Start, Top Guns, Jamo & Zane Gems, Game Days, Kris Signed, HBD Michael, Andrew & Melky

1981 - In the second game of Part 2 of the strike-split 1981 season, the Bucs were behind, 2-1, to the Montreal Expos in the ninth at Olympic Stadium. But the Pirates bats awoke just in time; they strung together five straight hits with one down (they had just two knocks up to then), the final being a three-run insurance shot into the RF stands by John “The Hammer” Milner, to take a 6-3 victory. Teke, in relief of Rick Rhoden and Enrique Romo, got credit for the win while the loss was hung on old teammate Woodie Fryman, even though most of the damage was inflicted on the following hurler, Elias Sosa. And for the second straight night, ump Dave Pallone called the plate while the bases were covered by three local semi-pro men in blue as travel woes kept the rest of the crew grounded.

1984 - OF Melky Cabrera was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. As a 34-year-old veteran of 14 seasons and seven teams, he signed a minor league NRI deal ($1.15M MLB salary) with the Bucs in 2019 and broke camp as an extra outfielder. His defense was suspect, but the switch hitter’s bat was as steady as ever as he hit .280 for the Bucs in his final MLB campaign. The Melkman last played in the Mets system in 2020, and he was released late in July without reaching the show. Melky then suited up with the Dominican team in the 2021 Olympics and took home a bronze medal, and then retired in 2022.

1986 - The Cubs used a record 10 pitchers in a 17-inning 10-8 loss to the Pirates, which used seven hurlers of their own. The game at Wrigley Field was a continuation of an April 20th game that was postponed due to darkness. Winner Barry Jones, who struck out the side to end the game, and Barry Bonds, who had the game winning RBI, were both still in the minors when the game originally started. The Bucs also took the regularly scheduled match, 10-7, scoring seven times in the second frame to up their early lead to 9-0 before running out the clock to make it nine straight victories over the Cubbies. Mike Diaz and Jim Morrison both homered and teamed up to drive in seven runs (Bonds also went deep) to help lead Rick Rhoden to the winner’s circle.

1988 - OF Andrew Lambo was born in Newbury Park, California. He joined the Bucs at the 2010 deadline in a deal with the LA Dodgers that also netted RHP James McDonald. Lambo got three cups of coffee with the Pirates from 2013-15 and hit .191; though a solid performer in the minors, he could never stay healthy long enough to challenge for an MLB spot. 

1994 - Zane Smith tossed a five-hit 4-0 shutout at TRS without a single strikeout against the Expos, which at the time sported the best record in baseball. But his outing wasn’t the big news flash - the MLBPA went on strike the next day, and MLB canceled the rest of the season a month later.

Zane Smith - 1994 Upper Deck

1995 - 1B/2B/LF Michael Chavis was born in Atlanta, Georgia and was Boston’s 2014 first rounder (26th overall) as a prep player. He had a spotted minor league career, with injuries during the first couple of years, a breakout 2017 season, then a PED suspension in 2018. He debuted for the BoSox in 2019 and hit .254 with 18 home runs and 58 RBIs in 95 games. Chavis couldn’t repeat in 2020-21, and the Red Sox sent him to Pittsburgh for P Austin Davis. He got off to a strong start in the minors in ‘21 and was called up in August, then broke camp with the team in 2022. He became a platoon 1B that season, also playing 2B, 3B and DH/pinch hitter while displaying some power. Chavis was DFA’ed at the end of the year; he’s now in the Reds system.

1996 - Clemson’s Kris Benson, the first overall selection in the 1996 draft, became the highest paid draftee to date when he signed with Pittsburgh for $2M. He looked well worth the money after starting his career with strong 1999-2000 campaigns, but he had TJ surgery after the 2000 season and never regained his edge. Kris finished his nine-year MLB tenure with a 70-75/4.42 line and a 43-49/4.26 slash in his five seasons on the bump with the Pirates.

2003 - The top of the Pirates order - Tike Redmond, Jason Kendall and Brian Giles - went 10-for-12 and drew a pair of walks as the Bucs pounded out 17 hits, but 13 stranded runners spelled defeat as they dropped a 6-4 decision to St. Louis at PNC Park. Pittsburgh was slap-happy with 13 singles, had two guys thrown out on the bases and banged into a DP.

2004 - After blowing a two-run lead in the ninth, the Pirates got a two-run homer in the 11th inning from Craig Wilson to walk off the San Francisco Giants at PNC Park by an 8-6 score. Jason Bay was the man of the hour, going 4-for-6 with a homer and four RBI, while Jose Castillo added a long ball. John Grabow, the Bucs sixth twirler, was credited with the victory.

2005 - Nine batters came to the plate in the first inning and scored six runs to lead the Pirates to an 11-3 victory over the Rockies at Coors Field. Pittsburgh pounded out 17 hits in the game and six of the starting position players had at least two hits, with Jason Bay, Ryan Doumit and Jose Castillo collecting three apiece. Brad Eldred homered and Castillo had three RBI to prime the attack while Josh Fogg went six innings to pick up the win against Colorado.

Jose Castillo - 2005 MLB Showdown

2007 - Freddy Sanchez banged out four hits, including a homer and double, while driving in five runs to lead the Pirates to a 13-3 win over San Francisco at AT&T Park. Adam LaRoche had a pair of knocks with a long ball (he and Freddy went back-to-back in the fourth inning) & three RBI; Jose Bautista, Ryan Doumit, Jose Castillo and Jack Wilson joined him with two raps as the Pirates collected 17 hits against rookie Tim Lincecum and four other Giants hurlers. Tony Armas got the win, but it took five Buc pitchers to close out the game. The game wasn’t a runaway until the Buccos put up a six pack in the ninth to ice it.

2009 - Andrew McCutchen was a one-man wrecking crew against the Colorado Rockies, even with just one hit. Cutch went 1-for-2 with a double, walked three times, scored three runs and stole three bases in a 7-3 win at Coors Field. The Bucs hit five doubles and a triple that were involved in six of their runs to earn the win for Ross Ohlendorf, who went six innings.

2014 - The Pirates jumped on Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers for five first inning runs keyed by Starling Marte’s bases-loaded triple and rolled to an 11-6 win at PNC Park in front of 35,314 fans. The Pirates padded their lead with four homers during the game. Two were hit by Travis Snider, who went 3-for-5 with four RBI and three runs scored while Ike Davis and Russ Martin also went long. Josh Harrison added three hits while Martin and Jordy Mercer had a pair of knocks each. Jeff Locke got the win even though he gave up four runs in five innings of work. The Tigers were coming off a 19-inning game, and three of the five pitchers Motown used had just been recalled from AAA Toledo.  

2016 - Jameson Taillon worked eight scoreless innings at PNC Park in his 10th big league start as the Bucs blanked the Padres 4-0 to take the series rubber match. David Freese led the way with a pair of RBI, including an opposite field run-scoring single in the first inning that turned out to be the game-winner. Gregory Polanco added an RBI single in the third while Josh Harrison chased home another run in the fourth. It was the second time Jamo went eight shutout frames; he tamed the Mets by the same score in June on two hits.