6/6 From 1950: Bay POTM; Arriba & Frank Thomas Have Days; 8-Run Frame; Game Stories; HBD Doug

• 1956 - Three Bucco batters (Dale Long, Frank Thomas and Roberto Clemente) went deep in the Pirates 8-2 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Clemente and Thomas each had three hits and three RBI on the day while Ron Kline went the distance for the win. 

Ron Blackburn - 1959 Topps

• 1959 - Ron Blackburn had a good day even if his team didn’t. The reliever smacked the only longball of his MLB career off Moe Drabowsky and tossed four innings of perfect ball as a fireman in an 8-2 loss to the Cubs at Forbes Field. 
• 1959 - OF Doug Frobel was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He played for Pittsburgh from 1982-85. Frobel looked ready to break out after hitting .286 in limited at-bats in 1983, but couldn’t match that pace in following campaigns, ending his Bucco career with a .213 BA. 
• 1986 - The Bucs split a twinbill with the Mets at TRS but not without a little dancing. Rick Rhoden was cruising on his way to a 7-1 opening game win when ex-Bucco and New York coach Bill Robinson called him a cheater (Rhoden was often accused of scuffing a ball), Rick cussed back, Robby gave him a good shove and for five minutes the benches and bullpens did the baseball cha-cha around the mound. Order was restored; apparently the trigger point was when Rhoden threw a ball in the dirt that left a mark, causing Robinson to call on the ump to check the pitcher for foreign objects, which he did without success. RJ Reynolds did the most damage (with his bat, not his knuckles) with three hits, missing the cycle by a long ball. Barry Bonds had a pair of hits and a homer. The second game went the other way with the New York nine running up a 10-4 score as Jose DeLeon was chased in the fourth inning. 
• 1998 - It took the Bucs awhile to get started, but a three-run seventh knotted the score against the Minnesota Twins at TRS and after four hours and 16 minutes, the Pirates squeezed out a 4-3, 12-inning decision. A Jose Guillen single, Aramis Ramirez triple and Turner Ward homer drove the big seventh, while four straight singles won the game in the 12th, the first by Chance Sanford and the last by Jason Kendall. Esteban Loaiza, the Bucs fifth pitcher, got the win. The Pirates hurlers worked out of the stretch all game; the Twinkies went 0-for-14 with RISP and stranded 14 runners. 

Jason Bay - 2006 Topps Team Bonus

• 2006 - Jason Bay was named the NL Player of the Month and Jose Castillo the Player of the Week. Bay banged away at a .321 clip with 12 HR and 35 RBI while Castillo hit .478 with four homers and 15 RBI and posted an impressive .366 average through May. Jason kept up the good work all season, winning his second straight All-Star berth with a .286 BA, 35 dingers and 109 RBI. Jose, not so much - he finished the year batting .253 with 14 home runs. 
• 2014 - The Pirates scored eight times in the sixth inning to hand the Milwaukee Brewers a 15-5 thumping at PNC Park, the biggest Bucco frame since 2012 when they accomplished the feat against San Diego. The 15 runs were the most scored since 2010, also against Milwaukee. The Bucs parlayed six hits and four walks into their big inning. Seven Pirates had multi-hit outings, led by Russ Martin, who had three hits, four RBI and three runs scored to prime the 16 hit attack.