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Pittsburgh Pirates ( MLB) (2001–present) PNC Park is a baseball stadium on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth location to serve as the ballpark of Major League Baseball 's Pittsburgh Pirates. [ 8][ 9] Opened during the 2001 MLB season, PNC Park sits along the Allegheny River with a view of the Downtown Pittsburgh ...
PNC Park's listed capacity is 38,747 for baseball, although standing-room only space can accommodate more than 40,000 fans; the biggest crowd in stadium history was the 2015 National League Wild Card Game, when 40,889 fans saw the Cubs defeat the Pirates 4–0.
The bridge was formally renamed on August 6, 1998 after Clemente, who played his entire career with the Pirates and was killed in a 1972 plane crash. [8] This was part of a compromise after the Pirates sold the naming rights to PNC Park to locally based PNC Financial Services .
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PNC Park. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Coordinates. 40°26′48.5″N 80°0′14.2″W / 40.446806°N 80.003944°W / 40.446806; -80.003944. In 1994, the Pittsburgh Pirates unveiled a 12-foot statue of Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Roberto Clemente, just before the 1994 Major League Baseball All-Star Game which was hosted by the ...
The 21-year-old Skenes hasn't allowed a run in 12 2/3 innings and he's struck out 27 of the 47 batters he's faced, most of them recorded with a fastball that regularly clocks in at 100 mph. While ...
Location: 2501 Bedford Avenue (south, first base); Municipal Hospital (now Garden of Hope) (east, right field) Currently: Bedford Dwellings housing project. Three Rivers Stadium. Home of: Pittsburgh Pirates - NL (mid-1970 – 2000) Location: 600 Stadium Circle. Currently: Parking lot for Heinz Field. PNC Park.
A proposal for a new sports stadium in Pittsburgh was first made in 1948; however, plans did not attract much attention until the late 1950s. [9] The Pittsburgh Pirates played their home games at Forbes Field, which opened in 1909, [10] and was the second oldest venue in the National League (Philadelphia's Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium was oldest, having opened only two months prior to Forbes).