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I'm not necessarily saying this would produce winning baseball. But it would be compelling. It would keep us interested in the Pirates as Steelers season approaches.

Watching the video of his work, Matt Olson was caught by surprise. When he yanked a slider over the left-center fence Saturday at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park, he hadn’t realized how far beneath the strike zone Graham Ashcraft’s slider had dipped.

ATLANTA — In a matchup between two first-place clubs, the Twins showed how large the gap is between them and one of the elite teams in the league.

PITTSBURGH — Pirates fans probably didn't need another reason to laugh or smile after Tuesday's 9-4 victory against the Padres at PNC Park, but Andrew McCutchen provided one anyway, cracking a joke in light of an absurd trade rumor from Monday that involved the franchise's most popular player in decades.

CHICAGO — Baseball fans have been inundated by new stats over the years, from WAR to wRC+ and exit velocity to barrels.

The two-way star, who is racking up stats with the Angels unlike anything seen before, proved once again he is reinventing what is possible in MLB.

Sometimes all you need is a good dinner. (And some good advice.)

They really should've listened.

This ball was crushed.