Jerry DiPaola stories, Page 40
Pirates infield prospect Liover Peguero promoted from Double-A Altoona to Triple-A Indianapolis
Middle infielder Liover Peguero, ranked No. 7 among Pittsburgh Pirates prospects by MLB Pipeline, was promoted Tuesday from Double-A Altoona to Triple-A Indianapolis. Acquired before the 2020 season in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks for Starling Marte, Peguero, 22, was slashing .260/.333/.453 this season, his second in Altoona, with...
Pirates All-Star Mitch Keller not at his best in loss to Dodgers
For a good portion of this season, Mitch Keller has been a reliable pitcher, able to carry the team through rough times. In four of Keller’s nine victories, the previous game or games had been defeats. From April 30 to May 16, he was the only Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher with...
Minus All-Star Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers defeat Pirates, 5-2
Five members of the Los Angeles Dodgers were named to the National League All-Star team before their 5-2 victory Monday night at Dodger Stadium against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Even without 10-time All-Star and three-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw missing his scheduled start Monday with shoulder soreness, the Dodgers (47-37)...
Penn State hires former Boston College coach Mike Gambino to lead its baseball program
After spending 13 seasons as the head baseball coach at Boston College, including two working with Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft, Mike Gambino took the leap to the Nittany Lions where he will replace Rob Cooper. Cooper had been Penn State’s head coach for the past 10 seasons. Gambino...
After 11 seasons as WVU assistant, Ron Everhart named Mountaineers’ director of community relations
Ron Everhart, the former head men’s basketball coach at Duquesne who spent the past 11 seasons as an assistant under Bob Huggins at West Virginia, will assume a newly created position under first-year WVU coach Josh Eilert. Everhart will serve as the program’s director of community relations and player outreach....
No. 15 in national recruiting rankings, Pitt lands German offensive lineman Moritz Schmoranzer
Pitt’s 2024 recruiting class — now numbering 20 prospects who have made their commitments public — jumped to 15th in Rivals.com’s national rankings Friday night after offensive lineman Moritz Schmoranzer of Roanoke, Va., told coach Pat Narduzzi he plans to enroll next year. 1000% committed❗️❗️@CoachDuzzPittFB @Pitt_FB @CoachBorbs @FrankCignetti @BatesBacker @CoachAPowell...
Pirates’ Derek Shelton named to National League All-Star coaching staff
Derek Shelton was at home when the phone rang. But it was upstairs, and he missed the call from old friend and mentor Rob Thomson. “Wonder why Thomson is calling me at 9 o’clock in the morning? They’re in Arizona,” he said of the Philadelphia Phillies manager. When Shelton called...
‘Putting our lives on the line’: Pirates players react to playing amid smoke, haze
The Pittsburgh Pirates couldn’t do anything about the smoke and haze over PNC Park for their game against the San Diego Padres on Thursday, but there was a clear-the-air meeting in the clubhouse when some players expressed concern about playing the game in those conditions. Sensing a serious situation, veteran...
Jared Triolo joins his fellow rookie buddies in quest to change Pirates’ fortunes
The moment could deliver Nick Gonzales’ 442-foot home run over PNC Park’s center-field wall one night, or merely a single by Jared Triolo to lead off a scoreless eighth inning the next. It’s all the same to Pittsburgh Pirates rookie Henry Davis because all three young guys are buddies, checking...
Pirates place Ke’Bryan Hayes on injured list, insert third baseman Jared Triolo into starting lineuip
Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes, who missed the past two games with lower back stiffness, was placed on the 10-day injured list. The transaction is retroactive to Sunday, the first game Hayes missed. Hayes appeared in 74 of the Pirates’ first 78 games, recording a slash line of .254/.290/.397,...
Pirates plan to play game Wednesday night, but will monitor air quality while offering ticket exchange
With the air quality index possibly approaching unhealthy levels by 7:05 p.m. game time, the Pittsburgh Pirates said people holding tickets for the game Wednesday at PNC Park can exchange them for a future game. Anyone wishing to do so should phone 800-289-2827 before the start of the game. National...
Altoona Curve, Pirates’ Double-A affiliate, sold to minor-league conglomerate Diamond Baseball Holdings
The sale of the Altoona Curve from the Lozinak family to Diamond Baseball Holdings was announced Wednesday, with the team remaining a Double-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. After gaining necessary approvals and satisfying closing conditions, the transaction is expected to be completed promptly, Curve officials said in a news...
Eric Cole puts his loyalty, golf skills on display while taking big lead in Fuhrer Invitational
Eric Cole might play the Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational during a winter snowstorm, if that was when tournament organizers scheduled it. So no way Cole would allow some inclement weather in Connecticut or rain in Fox Chapel to keep him from the tournament or from crafting a commanding lead...
An early Ben Cherington building block, Carmen Mlodzinski aims to bolster Pirates’ bullpen
General manager Ben Cherington started the long process of rebuilding the Pittsburgh Pirates roster with draft picks in the summer of 2020. His predecessor (Neal Huntington) and the team’s manager (Clint Hurdle) had been fired after the previous season, and the roster had plenty of holes. Cherington chose infielder Nick...
Former Duquesne coach Ron Everhart hopes to remain a WVU assistant
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — No one needs to tell Ron Everhart what it’s like to endure — and conquer — stressful, uncertain situations. Right now, Everhart has a job as an assistant basketball coach at West Virginia, the same one he has held for the past 11 seasons under Hall...
WVU athletic director Wren Baker supports continuing basketball version of Backyard Brawl with Pitt
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — The Pitt and West Virginia basketball teams have met 189 times, with No. 190 coming up this season. WVU athletic director Wren Baker said Monday he wants the series to continue beyond 2023-24, and he has made his intention known to Pitt’s Heather Lyke. “I called...
Bob Huggins’ legacy not ignored while West Virginia hands control of basketball program to Josh Eilert
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — From the outset of the news conference inside West Virginia Coliseum, WVU athletic director Wren Baker was honest. That included his willingness Monday to offer the important details of new coach Josh Eilert’s contract terms (10 months, $1.5 million) while speaking to a room full of reporters,...
Reports: 3 West Virginia basketball players plan to transfer after Bob Huggins’ resignation
The fallout from former West Virginia coach Bob Huggins’ DUI arrest and subsequent resignation affected the Mountaineers’ roster in a significant manner Friday with reports that three veteran players are planning to enter the NCAA transfer portal. Kerr Kriisa, a transfer from Arizona, and Joe Toussaint, who averaged 9.4 points...
Penn State pair Jalen Pickett, Seth Lundy picked in 2nd round of NBA Draft by Nuggets, Hawks
Two guards who helped Penn State reach the NCAA Tournament this season made history Thursday night when they were chosen in the second round of the NBA Draft. Jalen Pickett went 32nd overall to the recently crowned NBA champion Denver Nuggets before Seth Lundy was picked 46th by the Atlanta...
Penn Hills native, Indiana star Jalen Hood-Schifino drafted by NBA’s Lakers
Jalen Hood-Schifino, a Penn Hills native who was verbally committed to Pitt as a sophomore in 2019 before changing his mind, became NBA property Thursday when he was drafted in the first round — 17th overall — by the Los Angeles Lakers. Hood-Schifino played college basketball at Indiana for only...
Pitt lands Miami’s Jeremiah Marcelin, 3rd linebacker in its class of 2024
Like most teams, Pitt only puts three linebackers on the field at a time. Also like many others in college football, Panthers linebackers coach Ryan Manalac makes sure to substitute regularly. That’s why the past several weeks have been important to Pitt’s roster-building efforts. Three linebackers who will be high...
Injuries to Bryan Reynolds, Andrew McCutchen add to Pirates’ misery
Plenty of negative numbers have surfaced during the Pittsburgh Pirates’ eight-game losing streak. • While falling from first place in the National League Central on Friday to fourth in only four days, the Pirates have scored two runs in the past 38 innings. That’s an average of one run every...
‘Special’ Hill District corner named after Pitt basketball great Sam Clancy
Sam Clancy estimates that Tim Grgurich had dinner at his home near the corner of Bedford Avenue and Roberts Street in the Hill District “60 or 70 times.” Luckily for the former Pitt basketball coach and tireless recruiter of the mid 1970s, the university’s compliance department looked the other way....
Henry Davis’ debut double not enough in Pirates’ 8-0 loss to Cubs
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ hope Monday night was to make Henry Davis’ MLB debut a night to remember. But there’s nothing memorable about the current state of the Pirates, who have dropped seven games in a row for the second time this season after an 8-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs...
Henry Davis is a Pirate only 2 seasons after he was drafted in 1st round, but Gerrit Cole beat him by 8 days
Henry Davis reached the majors only two seasons after he was drafted No. 1 overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2021. But he’s not the team’s fastest since 2010 to draw an MLB salary after being selected in the first round. Gerrit Cole beat him by eight days 10 years...
