The Latest Breaking News from Mitch Keller

PITTSBURGH — The Mets have started playing poorly at a particularly unfortunate time.

PITTSBURGH — The Pirates and Mets were supposed to celebrate Labor Day together at PNC Park on Monday, opening a three-game series in the afternoon for the enjoyment of all those with a day off work.

MILWAUKEE — When Pirates fans envision late-game heroics from their rookie players, they probably imagine clutch base hits, maybe even a homer.

Last Friday, Pirates general manager Ben Cherington said the quiet part out loud: "I think we are at a moment in time that progress should not be measured entirely by wins and losses."

As a handful of position players went through fielding drills and others took batting practice indoors, Wil Crowe and Mitch Keller talked like two Pirates fans at a corner bar around happy hour on Monday. While stretching and throwing in left field, Crowe and Keller began discussing the upcoming offseason,…

PHOENIX — In their first two games in the desert, the Pirates’ offense was dying of thirst, scoring just four runs, three of which came Tuesday in quasi-garbage time of a loss.

PITTSBURGH — In a game where the Pirates faced arguably the best starting pitcher in the National League in right-hander Sandy Alcantara, their offense was pesky, persistent and productive, Pittsburgh tying the game in the ninth to force extra innings and threatening again in the 10th.

Yes, I'm still predicting the Pirates to win the World Series in 2027.

PITTSBURGH -- For 13 innings this weekend, the Pirates stood toe-to-toe with the New York Yankees, the current top class of MLB. On Tuesday, the Pirates showed up and outhomered the Bronx Bombers en route to a victory. On Wednesday, in the finale of the short two-game series between the…

WASHINGTON — Here’s guessing Bryan Reynolds won’t soon forget his first-ever three-homer game, an incredible performance by the Pirates center fielder on Wednesday afternoon that showed much the old Reynolds has returned and whatever it was that was here for the first two months of the season has exited stage…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — There were a lot of smiles before Friday’s game.