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8/13 From 1960: Paul & Kip Gems, B-Rey-Neil-Jermaine-Barry-Scoops & Roberto Big Boppers, Game Days, Jamo Out, HBD Jonah, Tom & Jeff

Thursday, August 13, 2026 7:01

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1963 – LHP Jeff Ballard was born in Billings, Montana. After five years with the Orioles, he worked for Pittsburgh from 1993-94, getting into 43 games and going 5-2-2/5.42 to close out his career. Ballard didn’t exactly end up on the street afterward. He had earned a degree in geophysics from Stanford University and plied his trade in Montana, spending his spare time as an organizer for the Billings American Legion baseball program.

1964 – C Tom Prince was born in Kankakee, Illinois. Prince started his career in Pittsburgh (1987-93) as a backup catcher behind Mike LaValliere and Don Slaught. In 177 games for the Pirates, he hit .177. Despite his bat, he played for five teams and parts of 17 seasons in the show before hanging up his spikes in 2003. He was a Buc minor league manager beginning in 2005 and in 2017 was promoted to the show as Clint Hurdle’s bench coach. When the new regime took over in 2019, Prince was hired by Detroit to manage their AAA club, Toledo and held the post until 2021. His previous work as a skipper was managing three games with the Pirates in 2019 when Clint Hurdle was attending a funeral.

1969 – Roberto Clemente hit three homers for the second time in his career to lead the Bucs to a 10-5 win over the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park; the trio were hit in consecutive at bats off Mike McCormick (2) and Bobby Bolin. He had four hits, four RBI and four runs to back Jim Bunning’s win, saved by Bob Moose. And to keep his run of fours going, he used four different bats during the game. Roberto made the Pirates’ prior protest a moot point; manager Larry Shepherd had filed one early in the game after the umpires reversed a call.

1973 – The Pirates hung on to take a 3-2 win from the rival Reds at TRS. Willie Stargell had three hits, including a homer, and started a two-out, two-run rally with a single in the fourth. He was busy; Pops was also thrown out at home repping an insurance run in the eighth when ump Bob Engel said he missed home with his slide, a charge Willie and manager Bill Virdon argued unsuccessfully. The three runs proved enough for Nellie Briles, Ramon Hernandez and Dave Giusti. There was some off-field action, too – Stargell was named the NL Player of the Week and extended his 13-game hitting streak (it ended the next day), while for the second straight trip to Pittsburgh, Johnny Bench received a death threat over the phone and was escorted around town by security guards.

Al Oliver – 1974 Topps

1974 – Al Oliver had three hits, including a two-run homer, and drove home five runs as the Pirates pounded the Reds 14-3 at Riverfront Stadium. Larry Demery spun a complete-game victory as Pittsburgh edged over .500 and moved to 1-1/2 games of first-place St. Louis. Richie Zisk had four knocks, three runs plated & scored twice, Richie Hebner added four more raps with an RBI & three runs, Rennie Stennett touched home three times on three hits and Ed Kirkpatrick banged a homer as the Bucs swatted out 21 hits. For Zisk, it was his 10th straight game with an RBI, a streak that would end the next day.

1980 – RHP Jonah Bayliss was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. Bayliss came over to Pittsburgh as the key figure in the Mark Redman trade, but never panned out. He spent 2006-07, the last two seasons of his three-year career, in Pittsburgh and went 5-4 with a 7.22 ERA in 16 outings from the pen, showing good stuff but poor control. He’s now a pitching coach/trainer and operates a baseball academy.

1988 – Barry Bonds was the Big Bopper, pounding two homers among his four hits while scoring three times and driving home five runs in a 10-4 Pirates victory over the Phils at the Vet with his proud pappy part of the 35,432 fans in the yard. He was a one-man show as the Bucs only totaled three other hits, although ten walks kept the basepaths lit. Rafael Belliard scored three times without a hit, reaching five times via three walks, a HBP and Philly error. Rookie Rick Reed started and chased early; Jeff Robinson tossed five scoreless innings for the win.

1988 – The Pirates sent RHP Barry Jones to the White Sox for LHP Dave LaPoint. LaPoint tossed well as a rental for the Bucs, going 4-2/2.77 in eight starts before signing with the Yankees in the offseason. Jones lasted in the league until 1993, with a strong stretch with Chicago and then as part of the Montreal Expos as he developed into a MLB late-inning arm through 1991.

1996 – Jermaine Allensworth homered twice with a grand slam and five RBI. John Wehner smacked a pinch-hit homer, giving the club the franchise mark for most pinch hit swats in a season with nine (the ‘44 Bucs had eight). Jay Bell also bopped a two-run shot as the Pittsburgh offense rang up 10 runs. Still, it just ended up their 13th loss in the past 16 games as they dropped a 12-10 match to the Giants at TRS when San Fran rode a six-run eighth inning to victory.

Jermaine Allensworth – 1997 Fleer Rookie Sensation

1998 – The Reds jumped on the Pirates for five first-inning runs at Cinergy Field, but the Bucs had the last laugh by roaring back to take a 9-6 win and sweep the three-game series. The Pittsburgh comeback started in the fourth with a Tony Womack solo shot, with two more tallies in the fifth keyed by back-to-back doubles by Al Martin & Freddy Garcia, a four-spot in the sixth behind a two-run Kevin Young homer & Lou Collier’s triple that chased another pair home with Jason Kendall & Martin RBI knocks in the seventh for insurance. The Pirates used six pitchers with Jeff McCurry getting the win and Ricardo Rincon earning a save. The attack was balanced – four Bucs had multi-hit days (Martin led the parade with three) while six different Pirates either scored or chased home two runs.

2003 – Pittsburgh scored twice in the eighth to take the lead, then the Cards came back to tie it 5-5 in the ninth at PNC Park. But with two away and the bases empty in their half, Pittsburgh, thanks to some off-the-book strategy by Tony LaRussa, walked away with the win. After two routine outs, Jason Kendall doubled, and St. Louis intentionally walked both Brian Giles and Reggie Sanders to load the bases for Randall Simon. Simon fell behind Pedro Borbon 0-2, then shot a single through the left side to plate Kendall with the game winner as the free passes blew up in LaRussa’s face. Craig Wilson was big with a pair of HRs.

2005 – Kip Wells dueled Roger Clemens at Minute Maid Park as the Bucs nosed the Astros 1-0. The game eventually became a battle of the bullpens, and Jack Wilson’s ninth-inning, 0-2 count homer off Brad Lidge was the difference. Salomon Torres claimed the win, saved by Jose Mesa. The Bucs hurlers dodged some raindrops to frustrate the ‘Stros – although Houston put up six hits and drew four walks, they stranded 11 runners.

2007 – Paul Maholm tossed a three-hit complete game to lead the Bucs past the Giants 3-1 at PNC Park. The big blow was a two-out, two-run double by Jose Castillo off San Francisco’s Matt Cain in the first inning on an 0-2 pitch. The win was in the opener of a twilight doubleheader and pushed the Bucs winning streak to four (five straight was the longest victory string of the season), which ended with a 10-3 whipping in the second game. Also OTD, Tom Gorzelanny was named co-NL Player of the Week with Troy Tulowitzki after winning two games, including a shutout, and giving up two runs in 16 IP on nine hits.

Paul Maholm – 2007 Upper Deck

2015 – 2B Neil Walker became the first Pirates player to collect a hit from both sides of the plate during the same inning in the expansion era (1962 forward) as the Bucs erupted for seven runs in the opening frame. Pittsburgh never looked back in taking a 10-5 win from St. Louis at Busch Stadium, with Frankie Liriano twirling six innings for the victory. The Pittsburgh Kid finished the game 3-for-5, falling a home run shy of hitting for the cycle while Pedro Alvarez also added three hits, including a home run, to help cage the Redbirds.

2019 – RHP Jameson Taillon went under the knife; it was hoped the operation would be just to repair an elbow flexor, but ended up his second career TJ surgery once the arm was opened and the damage determined. After a 14-10/3.21 2018 campaign, he was counted on to lead the staff in 2019, but instead the 27-year-old worked just seven starts and was placed on the IL on May 1st. It appeared that conservative rehab was turning the trick, but he felt pain while throwing in July and underwent the surgical procedure. He was back in action in 2021, but as a member of the Yankees after NY swung a January prospects deal for him; Jamo later tossed for the Chicago Cubs and now is with the Toronto Blue Jays.

2021 – Young Hi-A Greensboro RHP Quinn Priester, 20, the 18th overall pick in 2019, had his development slowed thanks to a short 2019 season, then the minors were canceled in 2020, and he got off to a slow start in 2021. He was ranked among the game’s Top 60 Prospects going into the year, and showed why by kicking it into gear during the second half of the ‘21 campaign, appearing in the All Star Futures Game and capped by an immaculate sixth inning (nine pitches = three K) on this date against Winston-Salem. In that game, he spun seven scoreless frames, giving up six hits/two walks and fanning a career-high 10 batters to earn a 4-1 win. He missed the early part of 2022 with an oblique strain, recovering to make yo-yo appearances in the Pirates rotation in 2023-34. Quinn’s numbers (5-9/6.46 ERA/5.84 FIP) weren’t up to expectations and he was traded to the Boston Red Sox at the 2024 deadline for UT Nick Yorke; both were sent to AAA. The Red Sox flipped him to Milwaukee in ‘25, where a longer leash (and newly acquired cutter) shepherded him to the promised land until wrist soreness led to thoracic outlet surgery that cost him the 2026 season.

2025 – The beat(down) continued as Milwaukee completed a three-game sweep of the Bucs with a 12-5 win as Mitch Keller and a way over-extended bullpen were whacked at American Family Field. Bryan Reynolds did his best (he went 3-for-4 with two homers and five RBIs) and at one point single-handedly cut the deficit to 6-5, but his one-man flex couldn’t stop the Brewers, who were on a 12-game winning streak. Pittsburgh was outscored 33-6 during the series.

Source: https://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2026/08/813-from-1960-paul-kip-gems-b-rey-neil.html

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