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It a little difficult to say which team has the momentum as the Pittsburgh Pirates and visiting New York Mets go into the deciding game of their three-game se

The Mets might've gone down without a whimper Friday night, but the fans in the stands at PNC Park put up a fight — literally.

The crew of a cargo ship boarded by Italian special forces may not have been threatened by knife-wielding "pirates" as initially reported, Italian media said on Saturday.

Italian special forces boarded a cargo ship sailing from Turkey to France on Friday, after the crew were threatened by "pirates" off the Italian coast, the defence ministry said.

The major league-worst A's (13-50) broke open the game late behind Peterson, whose RBI single off Pirates ace Mitch Keller put Oakland ahead 3-2 in the sixth.

The Oakland Athletics will go for a series win against the host Pittsburgh Pirates when they play the finale of a three-game series on Wednesday, and that would

Andrew McCutchen’s tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning lifted Pittsburgh to a 5-4 victory over Oakland on Monday night, extending the Pirates’ win streak to six games and sending the Athletics to their record-tying 15th consecutive road loss.

Andrew McCutchen’s tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning lifted Pittsburgh to a 5-4 victory over Oakland on Monday night, extending the Pirates’ win streak to six games and sending the Athletics to their record-tying 15th consecutive road loss. The 15 straight defeats away from home matches the Athletics’ record since they moved from Kansas City in 1968. Oakland set that mark in 1986.

It almost looks as if the baseball gods are teeing things up for the suddenly hot Pittsburgh Pirates, who host the lowly Oakland Athletics Monday in a series op

The Oakland Athletics visit the Pittsburgh Pirates looking to break a 14-game road slide.