Baseball has often been described as a kids game.
Amid another smoky backdrop along the North Shore on Wednesday, Major League Baseball, the MLB Players' Association and the Pirates re-learned an important childhood lesson: When tempers flare, it's probably best for everyone to use their words.
For while there's really nothing anyone can do about ongoing air-quality issues related to Canadian wildfires, how that impacted the Pirates' series finale against the San Diego Padres — an eventual 5-4 victory for the home team — at PNC Park was something else.
