{"id":421957,"date":"2025-11-08T05:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/421957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:24:36","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-announce-plans-for-2026-piratesfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/421957\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates announce plans for 2026 PiratesFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have announced that PiratesFest will take place on Jan. 24 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>PiratesFest is an all-day event featuring interactive games, attractions and opportunities to meet Pirates players, alumni, coaches, broadcasters and mascots. The event is free to the public with a reserved digital ticket available at Pirates.com\/piratesfest.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>PiratesFest will offer fans a variety of experiences, including meet-and-greet sessions with Pirates players, interactive games suitable for all ages and exclusive Pirates merchandise and memorabilia. Fans can also participate in Q&amp;A sessions with Pirates management and players.<\/p>\n<p>Autograph sessions with players and alumni will be ticketed, with proceeds benefiting Pirates Charities. Special autograph sessions for children 14 and under will be available without requiring a donation.<\/p>\n<p>Season ticket holders will have early access to PiratesFest from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., with exclusive events such as autograph and photograph sessions. General public hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can claim their tickets to PiratesFest starting now at Pirates.com\/piratesfest, with the full schedule of events to be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates have announced that PiratesFest will take place on Jan. 24 at the David L. Lawrence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[58926,5,4,10,58925,58924,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-421957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-autograph-sessions","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pirates-charities","13":"tag-piratesfest","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","16":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115512414232273114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421957","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=421957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}