{"id":172621,"date":"2025-07-13T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/172621\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:02:10","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-have-played-144-years-of-baseball-and-have-won-exactly-as-many-games-as-theyve-lost-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/172621\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates have played 144 years of baseball and have won exactly as many games as they&#8217;ve lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 144 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates are back in neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the Pirates have won exactly as many games as they&#8217;ve lost, a stretch that dates back to their inaugural season as 1992.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve fallen back to .500 all-time because of an eight-game losing streak. The Twins and cycle-hitting Byron Buxton beat Pittsburgh on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates&#8217; all-time record: 10,877-10,877.<\/p>\n<p>According to reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KodyDuncanPGH\/status\/1944119207320277266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1944119207320277266%7Ctwgr%5Ec84be2d02122278b6c82d156b203484fb6f8b52a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Ffannation%2Fmlb%2Ffastball%2Fhistory%2Fpittsburgh-pirates-all-time-record-falls-to-500-for-1st-time-in-over-a-century-after-loss-to-minnesota-twins-01k00d1f30as\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kody Duncan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kody Duncan<\/a>, the last time the franchise was at .500 or worse was in 1903.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/news\/mariners-switch-pitcher-jurrangelo-cijntje-both-arms-mlb-futures-game\/141b7ac4ac48033caf6d5789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mariners&#039; switch-pitcher shows off both arms at Futures Game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mariners&#8217; switch-pitcher shows off both arms at Futures Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pirates have won five World Series titles, although it hasn&#8217;t all been that pretty lately.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh hasn&#8217;t had as good a run in the last two decades or so. Since 2007, they&#8217;re 1,321-1,586, per SI.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates didn&#8217;t appear in the playoffs any year from 1993 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 through 2015, they earned a Wild Card three straight seasons. The Pirates haven&#8217;t been back to the playoffs since, and it won&#8217;t be happening this year, either.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll have to win Sunday to stay above water in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>MORE MLB NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 144 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates are back in neutral. Somehow, the Pirates have won exactly as many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,2223,17785,620,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-172621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-byron-buxton","10":"tag-inaugural-season","11":"tag-mariners","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","16":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114844887659861816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}