The Pittsburgh Pirates won 5-4 over the New York Mets in walk-off fashion last night thanks to David Freese, his five RBI’s and game winning hit. Pirates are now 54-51 on the season. Both teams play the 3rd of 4 games this evening at PNC Park, tonight’s starting pitchers are Jacob deGrom (1-1, 1.71 ERA) for the Mets and Trevor Williams (8-7, 4.11 ERA) for the Pirates. You can listen to the pre-game show starting at 6:40 pm on WISR680 am and first-pitch is set for 7:05 pm.
The Altoona Curve lost to the Binghamton Rumble Ponies 5-0 at home last night. The Curve are now 54-47 on the season. Both teams play tonight in Altoona on Elias Diaz bobble head night.
The Butler BlueSox lost at home to Kokomo last night 9-2. The BlueSox record is now 21-32 on the season, both teams are back in action tonight at Historic Pullman Park. First pitch set for 7:05 pm, it is a fireworks night at the ball park. This week coming up is also the last week of the Prospect League regular season.
NASCAR is in Long Pond, PA this weekend for the Monster Energy Cup Series at Pocono Raceway. Kyle Busch is the Defending race winner, Martin Truex Jr. won the first race at Pocono this season, which was last month. Hear the Cup Series race tomorrow beginning at 1:30pm on WBUT 1050am and at wbut.com.
Steelers first pre-season game is less than two weeks away as they will start off on the road against defending Super Bowl Champions Philadelphia Eagles. This game is set for Thursday August, 9 at 7pm. You can listen to the Pittsburgh Steelers all season long on WISR 680am.
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