7/5 From 1965: Like Father, Like Son; Ben & Wil Six-Packs; 10 Straight; '88 Pow-Wow; Gems & Game Tales; HBD Felipe

• 1966 - Woodie Fryman tossed his third straight shutout, a 6-0 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The rookie lefty surrendered just seven hits combined in the three complete game wins. Donn Clendenon smacked a two-run bomb and Jose Pagan added a pair of RBI. They were his only three whitewashes of the campaign as he finished the year at 12-9/3.81. 
• 1968 - The Bucs rode one big offensive outburst and a super start by Bob Veale to a 4-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Pirates plated all their runs in the fifth inning when six of their first seven runners reached base, with the key blow being Bill Mazeroski’s two-run double. Veale gave up just two hits, both infield singles, with a walk and five strikeouts to tame the Cubbies. The Windy City nine never had a runner reach second base against the big Bucco lefty in his complete game win. Bob only won 13 games but through little fault of his own: his ERA in the Year of the Pitcher was 2.05. 
• 1982 - Pittsburgh's first two hitters of the game, Omar Moreno and Johnny Ray, homered off Houston's Joe Niekro at TRS, but Niekro ended up with the last laugh in a 6-4 Astro win capped by Phil Garner’s three-run blast (Ray and Garner had been swapped for one another at the 1981 deadline). It gave the ‘Stros a six-game winning streak against the Bucs, a string that ended the next day when Larry McWilliams' five-hitter carried the club to a 1-0 victory. 

Omar Morena - 1982 Fleer

• 1988 - Andy Van Slyke, Sid Bream, Jim Gott, Spanky LaValliere and Bobby Bonilla held a players-only meeting before playing San Diego at Jack Murphy Stadium after losing three in a row to fall 7-1/2 games off the lead. They preached a team vs an individual approach and then went out and won that night, 3-2, as AVS backed his talk when he homered and stole a base. The big play came with an out in the ninth when C Junior Ortiz withstood a runaway John Kruk collision at home to keep the tying run from scoring. Bob Walk got the win with Barry Jones earning the save. The meeting didn’t help long term; the Mets took the crown by winning 100 games to the Bucs’ 85 victories. 
• 1989 - Barry Bonds homered in Pirates' 6-4 loss to the SF Giants at Three Rivers Stadium, giving him and his dad Bobby the MLB father-and-son home run record with 408. The Bells (Gus & Buddy) and the Berras (Yogi & Dale) formerly shared the record of 407. Gus and Dale both played for the Bucs, so the Pirates had a claim on all three slugging "Killer B" families. 
• 1991 - LHP Felipe Vazquez (formerly Rivero) was born in San Felipe, Venezuela. The lefty joined the Bucs from the Nats in 2016 as part of the Mark Melancon deal and established himself as a solid setup man. The following year, the Pirates traded closer Tony Watson and Vasquez stepped into his role, featuring a 100 MPH fastball, slider and changeup combo. His career circled the drain when he was arrested for child pornography and sexual assault charges in 2019. 
• 2000 - Wil Cordero drove in six runs with a pair of long balls to lead the Bucs to a 9-6 win against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Aramis Ramirez also added a homer. Jimmy Anderson went five innings for the win and Scott Sauerbeck, Jason Christiansen & Mike Williams brought it home. 

Kip Wells - 2004 Leaf Second Edition

• 2004 - Pittsburgh won its 10th straight game, 3-1, over the Florida Marlins at Pro Player Stadium as Kip Wells outdueled Josh Beckett. Wells gave up four hits and K’ed eight in a scoreless eight-inning outing and then had to sweat out a shaky Jose Silva save. Abraham Nunez homered in the win. The streak, which was the highlight of an 89-loss season, ended the next day. The Pirates actually played well through July and were just two games under .500 on the 27th, but the dog days of August and September wilted the record of Lloyd McClendon’s charges. 
• 2005 - Kip Wells scattered four hits and punched out a dozen Phils as he went wire-to-wire for a 3-0 victory at PNC Park. The shutout was the second (and last) complete-game whitewash of his 12-year career. Jason Bay had three hits and provided the big blow with a two-run blast in the fifth while Matt Lawton’s double plated the other score to topple Philadelphia. 
• 2015 - The Bucs used a big inning to take a 5-3 win over the Cleveland Indians at PNC Park. The Pirates trailed, 3-0, entering the fifth frame before plating five runs off Danny Salazar on a two-run homer from Pedro Alvarez, a run-scoring single from Neil Walker and a two-run double from Andrew McCutchen. The Pittsburgh Kid and Cutch banged their game-tying and game-winning hits with two away. Gerrit Cole earned his league-leading 12th win by tossing eight innings of five-hit ball and striking out five. Cole tied Ken Brett (1974), ElRoy Face (1959) and Rip Sewell (1943) for the second-most dubs prior to the All-Star break in Pirates history behind only Dock Ellis’ 14-win start in 1971. Mark Melancon earned his 27th save by tossing a 1-2-3 ninth inning. 
• 2021 - The Bucs had a big night, beating Atlanta at PNC Park by an 11-1 count. They were led by some unlikely suspects. Chase De Jong won his first MLB game since 2018, escaping a testy 36-pitch first inning by allowing just a run and then following with four shutout frames. OF Ben Gamel was big with three hits, including two homers, three runs scored and a career-high six runs chased home. John Nogowski, just bought from the Cards and hitting .096, had two hits, a walk, three tallies and his first MLB RBI. The Bucs first six batters each had multiple hits.