May 19, 2021 3:55 am
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Nolan Arenado hit a two-run homer, his fourth in four games, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2. Tommy Edman added three singles and drove in two runs for St. Louis. The Cardinals returned home after dropping three straight at San Diego to win their fourth consecutive game this season against Pittsburgh. John Gant threw 5 1/3 innings to earn the win. Alex Reyes pitched the ninth to record his 12th save in 12 chances. JT Brubaker, who had been charged with two earned runs or fewer in six of his first seven starts, gave up five runs on eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.
May 19, 2021 2:58 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Former Pittsburgh Pirate second baseman Rennie Stennett has died following a bout with cancer. He was 72. Stennett spent nine of his 11 big league seasons with the Pirates, helping the team win the 1979 World Series. Stennett hit .274 over the course of his career and twice received votes for the National League’s Most Valuable Player award. Stennett started at second base on Sept. 1, 1971 when the Pirates fielded the first all-Black starting lineup in MLB history. Stennett is also the only player in the modern era to go 7 for 7 at the plate in a nine-inning game.
May 18, 2021 2:51 am
Mapletown rolled by St. Joseph to advance to the Class 1A Quarterfinals Thursday. The Maples were the only winner from the two-county area Tuesday as Trinity and Jeff-Morgan were eliminated. Waynesburg (3A) and West Greene (1A) learned their quarterfinal opponents. Six more teams from Washington/Greene Counties begin softball tournament play Wednesday including a pair of games on WJPA-AM (1450) and online. Broadcast plans listed are tentative, subject to change. Following are the first game matchups for Washington/Greene County teams. CLICK–WPIAL Softball
Wednesday, May 19
2A #6 Chartiers-Houston vs. #11 Apollo-Ridge, Wednesday, 2 pm at Mars Area – WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
2A #17 California vs. #1 Ligonier Valley, Wednesday, 2 pm at Gateway
2A #8 Charleroi vs. #9 Neshannock, Wednesday, 2 pm at Sewickley Academy
2A #12 Fort Cherry vs. #5 Shenango, Wednesday, 4 pm at Sewickley Academy
6A #6 Canon-McMillan vs. #3 Hempfield, Wednesday, 4 pm at West Mifflin
2A #7 Burgettstown vs. #10 Carmichaels, Wednesday, 5 pm at Montour – WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
Thursday, May 20
3A #3 Waynesburg vs. #11 Ellwood City, site/time TBD
1A #1 West Greene vs. #9 Bish. Canevin, site/time TBD
1A #7Mapletown vs. #2 Leechburg, site/time TBD
May 18, 2021 2:50 am
The WPIAL baseball playoffs open Wednesday including match-ups for 11 of the14 Washington/Greene County teams. Following are the first game matchups for Washington/Greene County teams as well as our broadcast plans. CLICK–WPIAL Baseball
Wednesday, May 19
1A #8 West Greene vs. #9 Sewickley Academy, 2 pm at Peterswood Park
1A #6 Jeff-Morgan vs. #11 Leechburg, 2 pm at Mt. Pleasant
1A #10 Avella vs. #7 Riverview, 2 pm at Plum
2A #12 Beth-Center vs. #5 Laurel, 2 pm at Burkett Complex
2A #6 Chartiers-Houston vs. #11 Riverside, 430 pm at Peterswood Park
2A #3 Carmichaels vs. #14 Apollo-Ridge, 430 pm at Mt. Pleasant
2A #9 California vs. #8 Shady Side Academy, 430 pm at Hempfield
2A #10 Burgettstown vs. #7 Neshannock, 430 pm at Hampton
2A #16 Bentworth vs. #1 Seton-La Salle, 430 pm at Bethel Park
5A #13 Peters Township vs. #4 South Fayette, 430 pm at Wash & Jeff
2A #13 Fort Cherry vs. #4 Serra Catholic, 7 pm at Peterswood Park
Thursday, May 20
3A #4 McGuffey vs. #13 South Allegheny, 4 pm at Wash & Jeff – WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
3A #16 Waynesburg vs. #1 Hopewell, 630 pm at Wash & Jeff
Friday, May 21
6A #9 Canon-McMillan vs. #8 Upper St. Clair, 4 pm at West Mifflin – WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
May 18, 2021 4:01 am
UNDATED (AP) – Brad Marchand scored 39 seconds into overtime and the Boston Bruins rallied to beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 and even the East Division first-round series at a game apiece.
Marchand was Boston’s OT hero in a game in which he made more noise for taking post-whistle penalties than producing. The Bruins’ leading scorer, who ranked third in the NHL in points, looked more like himself on the one-timer he ripped past Craig Anderson in overtime. Taylor Hall tied it with 2:49 left in regulation for the Bruins. Game 3 is Wednesday night in Boston.
May 18, 2021 4:00 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Albert Pujols has signed a major league deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 41-year-old slugger is moving 30 miles north to extend his remarkable career with the defending World Series champions after leaving the Los Angeles Angels. Pujols was unceremoniously cut by the Angels earlier this month in an abrupt end to his largely unsuccessful 10-year, $240 million tenure with the Orange County club.
May 17, 2021 3:58 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Kyle Palmieri’s second goal of the game 16:30 into overtime lifted the New York Islanders to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of their first-round series. Palmieri collected a pass from Jean-Gabriel Pageau near the goal line and lifted it over Tristan Jarry and into the net. The victory was the first for New York in five tries at PPG Paints Arena this season. Sidney Crosby scored his 69th career playoff goal, but the Penguins lost for the 10th time in their past 11 postseason games.
May 17, 2021 3:56 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Alex Wood pitched six innings while keeping his perfect record intact and Mike Yastrzemski hit a game-sealing home run as the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1. Wood improved to 5-0. He gave up one run while scattering eight hits. He struck out six and walked one as NL West-leading San Francisco gained a split of the four-game series. It has been a resurgent season for Wood, who went a combined 1-4 with a 5.96 ERA in 2019 and 2020 with the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers while hampered by back problems.
May 16, 2021 1:44 am
Washington & Jefferson Collgeg pitchers held opponents to one total run in a three-game sweep of the Presidents Athletic Conference baseball championship tournament, topping St. Vincent, 3-0, in the championship game. Nick Drake (7-0) allowed just one hit over seven innings to get the win. The right-hander took his no-hit bid into the seventh but had to pitch out of a two-on, one out jam in his final inning. Drake fanned Justin Wright and Ben Menarchek, stranding the potential tying runs. Michael Zito worked the final two innings, earning a league-best eighth save, his second of the tournament. Tyler Horvat, later named the tournament’s most valuable player, walked, stole second, moved to third on a Adam Morris single and scored on Adam Moore’s infield grounder. Moore had a first-inning RBI in all three W&J games in the tournament. Horvat scored again in the third with a similar line: walk, stolen base, fly out toright, infield groundout by Morris. W&J set the final score in the eighth. Morris walked, chasing Bearcats’ starter Brenden Lavely. Morris moved to second on a groundout, held there on a flyball single by Zito and scored on a groundball single to right off the bat of Nate Rush.
The conference championship is the 13th for W&J, nine under the leadership of head coach Jeff Mountain. The title also includes the League’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament which opens with regional competition May 27th. The national playoff brackets will be announced Sunday, May 23. W&J has reached the Division III College World Series twice in the last five years including a runner-up finish in 2017. (photo credit: https://pacathletics.org/)
May 16, 2021 7:39 am
PITTSBURGH — Jacob Stallings hit a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied past the San Francisco Giants 8-6 on Saturday night. The catcher had a two-run double that capped four-run comeback with two out in the seventh that made it 6-all. Adam Frazier singled to lead off the Pittsburgh ninth and was thrown out at the plate when he tried to score on Bryan Reynolds’ one-out double. Reynolds took third on the play, and trotted home when Stallings sent a drive into the left-field bleachers off Jake McGee (1-1). McGee gave up a game-tying single to Reynolds that sent a 3-2 loss into extras Friday. Stallings hit a walkoff solo shot in a 3-2 win against the Chicago Cubs in an empty PNC Park last Sept. 22. On Saturday, he did it in front of a season-high Pirates crowd of 7,833. Kevin Newman hit an RBI single and another run scored on a wild pitch as the Pirates rallied in the seventh. Pirates closer Richard Rodriguez (2-0) allowed a two-out single to Brandon Crawford in the ninth before getting Mauricio Dubon to pop out. Pittsburgh has won four of seven games since losing eight of its previous nine. The Pirates beat the NL West-leading Giants on Friday night on a walkoff sacrifice by Gregory Polanco in the 11th inning.
