{"id":679752,"date":"2026-04-20T12:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:54:38","slug":"pirates-take-three-game-series-with-win-over-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679752\/","title":{"rendered":"PIRATES TAKE THREE-GAME SERIES WITH WIN OVER RAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pirates pulled off a series win over the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday.<\/p>\n

Greg Brown Reports.<\/p>\n

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In the seven-game homestand, the Bucs went 4-3, and are now 13-9.\u00a0 Right now, that\u2019s third place, but they are a game behind the Reds, who are in first and a half-game back of the Cardinals.\u00a0 The Reds beat the Twins yesterday, 7-4, the Cardinals beat Houston 7-5, while the Cubs had a 2-1 win over the Mets and the Brewers fell to Miami, 5-3.<\/p>\n

Before the game, the Pirates brought up Wilbur Dotel, who pitched the final inning and allowed a homer but also struck out one.<\/p>\n

During Pirates Insider before the game, GM Ben Cherington said that the club is looking for long-relief answers, and said that it would be important to establish some permanence in that spot.<\/p>\n

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The Pirates have the day off to travel to Arlington to take on the Texas Rangers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Down in the minors, the Altoona Curve\u2019s two-game winning streak was snapped Sunday by the Portland Sea Dogs 5-3.\u00a0 All of Altoona\u2019s runs came off a Shawn Ross three-run homer in the 7th.<\/p>\n

Altoona is off today, getting ready for a six-game series against Harrisburg that will start Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates pulled off a series win over the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday. Greg Brown Reports. https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2140\/files\/2026\/04\/4-19-recap.mp3 In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-679752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rays","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116437140268800502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679752","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=679752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}