May 17, 2023 6:05 pm
DETROIT (AP) — Rich Hill gave up one hit in six innings, Austin Hedges drove in three runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates rolled to an 8-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday. The 43-year-old Hill, the oldest active player in the majors, gave up an infield single to Matt Vierling and two walks while striking out seven. A trio of relievers completed the shutout as Pittsburgh won for just the third time in 15 games. Rodolfo Castro homered and knocked in two runs, while Bryan Reynolds contributed three hits and scored two runs.
May 16, 2023 3:52 am
DETROIT (AP) — Michael Lorenzen had a season-high seven strikeouts in six innings, Spencer Torkelson doubled twice and the Detroit Tigers beat the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 on Tuesday night. Lorenzen (2-2) gave up five hits and two walks and has allowed just two runs in his last three starts. Will Vest worked two scoreless innings, with three strikeouts, and Jose Cisnero pitched the ninth. Torkelson scored and knocked in another run. Riley Greene had three hits. Shut out for the second time in three games, Pittsburgh has lost 12 of 14 games while scoring just 22 runs. Luis Ortiz (0-2) allowed four runs, three earned, and seven hits in three-plus innings.
May 17, 2023 12:01 am
Trinity’s Amber Morgan homered early and the Hillers rolled past Norwin and into the 5A softball semifinals. Canon-McMillan fell behind early, rallied to within a run but fell in the 6A quarterfinals. On the baseball diamonds, Peters Township scored four times in the bottom of the seventh including the game-winner on Vinny Sarcone’s single to eliminate defending champion West Allegheny. Trinity got a pair of home runs from Matthew Robaugh but it wasn’t enough as the Hillers were eliminated. Ringgold’s baseball season ended as well with the Rams’ first-round loss. Washington County has nine baseball and four softball teams alive. Eight of those 11 teams play in games Thursday, four of those will be on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! Greene County’s six teams (2 baseball, 4 softball) are all in action on Thursday. Click for WPIAL Softball WPIAL Baseball
Wednesday, May 17(Softball Quarterfinals, Baseball First Round)
SB 6A #3 Norwin 8, #6 Canon-McMillan 7
SB 5A #3 Trinity 13, #6 Latrobe 3 (6 inn.)
BB 4A #9 Hampton 9, #8 Ringgold 0
BB 5A #4 Plum 6, #13 Trinity 3
BB 5A #6 Peters Township 5, #11 West Allegheny 4
Thursday, May 18 (Softball Quarterfinals, Baseball First Round)
SB 1A #4 Chartiers-Houston vs. #5 West Greene, 11:50 am at Peterswood Park #2 WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
BB 2A #12 Bentworth vs. #5 South Side, 1:50 pm at Burkett Complex WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
BB 1A #8 Ft. Cherry vs. #9 Sewickley Academy, 3:50 pm at Peterswood Park WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
BB 1A #10 Avella vs. #7 Rochester, 6:20 pm at Burkett Complex WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
SB 1A #6 Jeff-Morgan vs. #3 Frazier, 12 noon at Peterswood Park #1
SB 3A #3 Waynesburg vs. #11 Ligonier Valley, 2 pm at West Mifflin
SB 1A #2 Carmichaels vs. #7 Leechburg, 3 pm at Gateway
BB 2A #7 Charleroi vs. #10 Riverview, 4 pm at Gateway
BB 3A #13 Waynesburg vs. #4 East Allegheny, 4 pm at Boyce Mayview Park
SB 2A #4 Charleroi vs. #5 Greensburg Central Catholic, 5 pm at Norwin
SB 2A #8 Burgettstown vs. #1 Neshannock, 5 pm at North Allegheny
BB 2A #6 Chartiers-Houston vs. #11 Ligonier Valley, 6:30 pm at Gateway
BB 1A #5 Carmichaels vs. #12 Cornell, 6:30 pm at Peterswood Park
May 16, 2023 12:01 am
The WPIAL Softball championship tournaments continued Tuesday with first-round games in 1A, 2A & 3A. Burgettstown & Charleroi picked up wins to advance to the quarterfinals. Bentworth & Ft. Cherry both suffered run-rule losses to end their seasons. McGuffey was eliminated from the 3A bracket. Greene County’s three softball teams in action won to advance. The brackets include 11 Washington County baseball and now five softball teams. Greene County has six teams in the playoffs, two in baseball and four softball. We’ll have as many games as possible on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! Click for WPIAL Softball WPIAL Baseball
First Round (winners advance to quarterfinals Thursday)
SB 2A #8 Burgettstown 8, #9 Apollo-Ridge 1
SB 2A #4 Charleroi 6, #13 Steel Valley 5
SB 2A #5 Greens. Central Catholic 10, #12 Bentworth 0
SB 2A #7 Riverside 14, #10 Fort Cherry 0, 5 inn.
SB 3A #2 Southmoreland 3, #15 McGuffey 1
SB 1A #6 Jeff-Morgan 7, #11 Northgate 4
SB 1A #5 West Greene 16, #12 Monessen 1
SB 3A #3 Waynesburg 5, #14 Valley 1
May 16, 2023 3:51 am
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers are re-signing free agent quarterback Mason Rudolph, according to various reports. Rudolph, 27, spent the 2022 season as the Steelers’ third-string quarterback and dressed in just one game. Before that, Rudolph was the top backup to Ben Roethlisberger from 2019-21. Rudolph played in 17 games in that stretch, making 10 starts, most of them in 2019.
May 16, 2023 3:57 am
DALLAS (AP) — Roope Hintz and Wyatt Johnston scored goals and the Dallas Stars advanced to the Western Conference final with a 2-1 win over the Seattle Kraken in Game 7. Dallas moves on to play first-year coach Pete DeBoer’s former team, the Vegas Golden Knights. Game 1 of the West final is Friday night in Las Vegas. DeBoer improved to 7-0 in Game 7s. A day after his 20th birthday, Johnston made it 2-0 with 7:12 left, when he gathered a puck that ricocheted off the back board to the left of the Seattle net and scored. Jake Oettinger had 22 saves, and the only Seattle score came with 17.6 seconds left.
May 16, 2023 3:58 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have reached an agreement with Bally’s and Gaming & Leisure Properties to build a potential stadium on the Tropicana hotel site along the Las Vegas Strip. Bally’s on Monday unveiled plans for a 30,000-seat stadium on the 35-acre site. The project is expected to cost about $1.5 billion. The A’s are asking for nearly $400 million in public support from the Nevada Legislature, which could vote on a proposal this week.
May 15, 2023 12:01 am
The WPIAL Softball championship tournaments open Monday with 4A & 5A first-round games. 1A, 2A & 3A softball get started on Tuesday. Baseball also starts on Tuesday with a pair of preliminary (round of 32) games. The brackets include11 Washington County baseball and eight softball teams. Greene County has six teams in the playoffs, two in baseball and four softball. We’ll have as many games as possible on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! Click for WPIAL Softball WPIAL Baseball
Trinity survived a scare from Penn-Trafford Monday, opening the WPIAL 5A softball playoffs. The Hillers ran into outs on the bases in the 2nd, 4th and 6th innings, but managed to get by the Warriors. Taylor Dean got the win, allowing just two runs, one earned, in seven innings of work. Mirranda Rinehart homered in the third to tie the game. Hanna Suhoski doubled and scored when Addi Agnew’s fly ball to right was dropped and kicked out of play. Finley Hohn’s sacrifice fly scored Agnew with what proved to be the winning run. Trinity moves to the quarterfinals Wednesday against #6 Latrobe.
First Round
Monday, May 15
SB 5A #3 Trinity 3, #14 Penn-Trafford 2
May 15, 2023 3:55 am
BALTIMORE (AP) — Mitch Keller struck out a career-high 13 in seven innings and the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates won for only the second time in 13 games, 4-0 over the Baltimore Orioles. The Pirates avoided a sweep after dropping the first two games of the series. Pittsburgh was 20-8 after a 16-1 win at Washington on April 29. Then the Pirates scored just 18 runs in their next 12 games. They managed four Sunday without a single extra-base hit, and that was plenty the way Keller was pitching. Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman, who has played in every game this season, pinch-hit in the ninth and popped out to end the game.
May 15, 2023 4:00 am
DENVER (AP) — Colorado pitcher Ryan Feltner has a skull fracture and concussion after getting hit by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. Feltner was injured Saturday night and was discharged from Swedish Medical Center on Sunday. He will not need surgery. Feltner was put on the 15-day injured list. When asked whether the 26-year-old right-hander will be out for days, weeks or months, Black said “probably on the longer end of that.”
