(File Photo: Source for Photo: Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong (4) and Miguel Amaya (9) celebrate after scoring on a single by Seiya Suzuki off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong was 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBIs to lead the Chicago Cubs to an 11-0 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday night.

Shota Imanaga (7-8) held Pittsburgh to four hits in six innings, striking out four and walking one.

Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes (9-9), who had allowed five runs in 18 1/3 innings to win his previous three starts, struck out 11 in 5 1/3 innings but gave up five earned runs on six hits and two walks.

Crow-Armstong, who was a triple short of the cycle, had an extra-base hit in three straight innings, capped by a two-run homer over the wall in right off Ron Marinaccio to give Chicago a 10-run lead in the seventh inning. It was his 23rd of the season.

He also had a single in the first and an RBI double in the fifth off Skenes, and a double off Isaac Mattson in the sixth.

The Cubs struck out nine times against Skenes through the first four innings before solving him for three runs in the fifth. Crow-Armstrong sent a 2-2 changeup to the center field wall, driving in Dansby Swanson. Then, with the infield in and two runners in scoring position, Seiya Suzuki dropped a single into right field over first baseman Ryan O’Hearn.

Chicago scored five more in the sixth, chasing Skenes with one out after Nico Hoerner singled and Pedro Ramírez walked. Swanson lined an RBI double to left and Miguel Amaya drove in two more with a single. Michael Busch also hit a two-run single.

Jake Mangum was the only Pirates batter to reach second base against Imanaga, sending a sharp single past the glove of third baseman Alex Bregman for the first Pittsburgh hit with two outs in the third and taking second on a throwing error by Swanson.

Up next

Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft (9-4, 3.95 ERA) starts the series finale Sunday against Cubs RHP Jameson Taillon (2-5, 5.38).

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Chicago Cubs’ Dansby Swanson singles off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Yohan Ramírez, driving in a run, during the tenth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dansby Swanson hit an RBI single and Seiya Suzuki drew a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning as the Chicago Cubs held on for a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.

Swanson’s single scored automatic runner Ian Happ, who barely beat center fielder Jake Mangum’s throw to make it 2-1. The call was upheld after a video review.

Suzuki’s walk came off Yohan Ramírez (6-3).

Gavin Holliwell allowed a run on Nick Gonzales’ groundout in the bottom of the 10th but hung on for his first save. Caleb Thielbar (3-2) worked a scoreless ninth.

The Pirates opened the scoring in the fifth inning on back-to-back walks to Marcel Ozuna and Brandon Lowe and consecutive infield singles by Jared Triolo and Henry Davis.

Pittsburgh had the bases loaded with none out, but Matthew Boyd escaped the jam.

Pete Crow-Armstong tied it at 1-1 in the sixth when he hit his 22nd home run of the season into the right-field stands off Jared Jones. Left fielder Happ helped to keep the score 1-1 in the seventh when he threw out Davis at home for an inning-ending double play.

Crow-Armstrong also doubled in the third.

Boyd surrendered only one run in seven innings despite giving up seven hits and three walks. The left-hander did not factor in the decision, but his six-game winning streak stayed intact.

Jones pitched one-run ball over six innings, allowing two hits, striking out five and walking one. In his last four starts, Jones has given up three runs in 21 innings.

Up next

Cubs LHP Shota Imanaga (6-8, 3.91 ERA) faces RHP Paul Skenes (9-8, 3.43) on Saturday night.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of JJ LaBella/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Imperial, PA) The West Allegheny boys high school basketball team will have a new head coach entering the 2026-27 season.

Longtime boys basketball coach Jeff Ackermann was named the next head coach of that team during a school board meeting yesterday, and he replaces Ben O’Connor, who resigned after spending the past three seasons with the program.

Ackermann spent the last six seasons at Baldwin and has won five WPIAL championships, a PIAA championship and won over 400 games.

(Credit and Caption for Photo: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – DECEMBER 21: A detailed view of an NFL football is seen at M&T Bank Stadium on December 21, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The NFL FLAG Championships, which is the largest youth flag football tournament in the world, will bring the game of flag football’s next generation of stars and three teams from the Pittsburgh region are set to compete on the global stage.

This year’s NFL FLAG Championships which is presented by Toyota will take place from today through July 26th in Westfield, Indiana and it will feature over 350 girls and boys teams from across the world, which makes it the biggest tournament in the history of the event.

According to a release from the Pittsburgh Steelers, the following teams from western Pennsylvania have earned the opportunity to compete as the
Steelers at the NFL FLAG Championships:

• Pittsburgh Flag Football League (PFFL) STEEL (age 8 and under) – Pittsburgh/ PFFL STEEL is coached by Derrick Miles. Former Pittsburgh Steelers safety Mike Logan is
the assistant coach.

• Boyce Park (age 10 and under) – Plum Borough/The team is coached by Larry Fielder and assistant Maurice William.

• Pittsburgh Flag Football League (PFFL) Ladies of Steel (high school girls) – Pittsburgh/The team is coached by Dennis Wolford and assistant Ryan Glass.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Pittsburgh Pirates’ Jake Mangum celebrates as he stands on second after driving in a run with a double off Atlanta Braves pitcher Jr. Ritchie during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Thursday, July 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Jake Mangum was scratched from the second game of yesterday’s doubleheader against the New York Yankees after he fouled a ball off his right foot in the opener at Yankee Stadium. 

His injury status is considered day-to-day as the Pirates prepare to go back to PNC Park for a three-game series at home against the Chicago Cubs starting tomorrow.

Mangum will go through further tests to determine how severe his injury is and the Pirates will give an update on his status for their next game.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, left, fakes a handoff to running back Kaleb Johnson during practice at the team’s NFL football training camp in Latrobe, Pa., Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Latrobe, PA) The 2026 Pittsburgh Steelers training camp will be held at its long-time location at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe from Wednesday, July 29th through Monday, August 17th.  

Players will report on Tuesday, July 28th and tickets are free for fans. 

However, those who attend must have a mobile ticket. 

You can see the full schedule and get tickets for this event by going to this website:

https://www.ticketmaster.com/pittsburgh-steelers-training-camp-tickets/artist/2901876

(File Photo: Source for Photo: New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried delivers in the first inning during the second baseball game of a doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

NEW YORK (AP) — Max Fried allowed one hit over five innings in his return from a two-month layoff, Jasson Domínguez and Anthony Volpe drove in runs on consecutive pitches in the seventh and the New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 Wednesday night for a doubleheader split.

Pittsburgh won the opener 5-3 in 10 innings.

Bubba Chandler pitched 6 1/3 innings of two-hit ball in his first scoreless outing this year.

Brandon Eisert (2-2), acquired from the Chicago White Sox on July 11, relieved and walked Cody Bellinger. One out later, Domínguez doubled down the left-field line and scored when Volpe singled for his second RBI since June 19.

Fried struck out seven and walked one, inducing 10 swings and misses while throwing 37 of 57 pitches for strikes and retiring his last 12 batters. He had not pitched since May 14 because of a bone bruise in his left elbow and was to have thrown one more minor league rehab start before Tuesday night’s rainout caused the Yankees to change their plans.

He was economical, with 13 pitches in the first, 10 each in the second, third and fourth, and 14 in the fifth. Fried’s four-seam fastball averaged 96.2 mph, 1.5 mph above his season average coming in. He threw his two fastest pitches this year, topping at a 98.5 mph fastball for a called strike against Marcell Ozuna in the second.

Nick Gonzalez singled down the left-field line leading off the game but was throwing out at second trying to stretch by Bellinger in left.

Paul Blackburn (3-1) pitched two hitless innings, escaping a runners-at-the-corners jam in the seventh by striking out Ryan O’Hearn and Ozuna.

Will Warren, who was to have started Tuesday, allowed Nick Gonzales’ single starting the ninth and a two-out walk. Tim Hill retired O’Hearn on a groundout that was upheld in a video review for his first save since June 30, 2021, for San Diego at Cincinnati.

Up next

Pirates: RHP Jared Jones (2-1, 4.05 ERA) will be on the mound Friday against the visiting Chicago Cubs, who start LHP Matthew Boyd (6-1, 4.15).

Yankees: RHP Cam Schlittler (9-6, 2.20) starts Friday’s series opener at Philadelphia against LHP Jesús Luzardo (9-4, 3.43).

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Carmen Mlodzinski reacts after giving up a three-run home run to New York Yankees’ Ben Rice in the seventh inning during the first baseball game of a doubleheader, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

NEW YORK (AP) — Jared Triolo and Jake Mangum hit run-scoring singles against Fernando Cruz in the 10th inning, Jacob Gonzalez and Nick Gonzales homered off Gerrit Cole and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Yankees 5-3 Wednesday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.

Ben Rice tied the score with his 30th home run, a three-run drive in the seventh inning off Carmen Mlodzinski.

Triolo and Mangum drove in runs off Cruz (4-4), who allowed two hits and two walks while getting just one out.

Mason Montgomery (3-3) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings and Gregory Soto got three straight outs for his 13th save in 18 chances.

Cole retired his first 14 batters before allowing Nick Gonzales’ single and Jacob Gonzalez’s two-run homer. Nick Gonzales added a solo homer in the seventh off Cole, who in his previous start gave up Max Muncy’s two-run, eighth-inning homer that lifted the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-1 win.

Cole struck out 11, his most since Aug. 25, 2023, and extended his Yankees record for double-digit strikeouts games with 29. He allowed three runs and four hits with no walks.

Pittsburgh starter Mitch Keller gave up three hits in five scoreless innings.

New York went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position.

Yankees hitting coach James Rowson was ejected in the sixth inning for arguing after José Caballero was called for a pitch clock violation for not for engaging Mlodzinski with more than eight seconds remaining. Caballero took an inning-ending called strike and Yankees manager Aaron Boone continued arguing with plate umpire Quinn Wolcott during the break.

Brent Headrick struck out the side in the eighth and extended his home scoreless streak to 35 innings, the longest for the Yankees since Allie Reynolds’ 36 innings from Sept 16, 1953, to June 2, 1954, according to STATS.

Up Next

New York LHP Max Fried (4-3) and Pittsburgh RHP Bubba Chandler (3-8, 4.77) were to start the night game.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: New York Yankees’ Cody Bellinger, center left, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) celebrate after Chisholm’s home run against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, July 20, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees’ game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night was postponed because of a forecast of rain and will be made up as part of New York’s second doubleheader in a four-day span.

New York announced the postponement about five hours before the scheduled start and said it will play two games on Wednesday. The regularly scheduled game starts at 1:05 p.m. and the makeup at 7:05 p.m.

The Yankees are off Thursday, then start a series at Philadelphia. New York split a day-night doubleheader Sunday against the Los Angeles Dodgers after a rainout Saturday night.

Pittsburgh also is off Thursday before a home series against the Chicago Cubs.

(Caption and Credit for Photo: Broadcast analyst Ryan Clark sits on stage during a television show before an NFL game between the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium. (AP))

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Bristol, CT) According to the Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, ESPN has fired former Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Clark as part of a round of layoffs. 

Marchand confirmed that Clark was on “NFL Live” yesterday, was informed about the layoff in the middle of the broadcast and did not finish the show. 

ESPN reportedly planned to tell Clark that he was let go this morning initially, in line with other layoffs, but media inquiries had led the network to fear that Clark would find out he was fired online before it had a chance to tell him. 

Clark, who is a Super Bowl XLIII (43) Champion with the Steelers, joined ESPN as an NFL analyst in 2015.