It took Pirates just 4 innings to make baseball history not done in 51 years
Pittsburgh got off to quite the start.
It took Pirates just 4 innings to make baseball history not done in 51 years originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Pittsburgh Pirates accomplished a feat so unlikely that it hasn't been done by their franchise in 51 years.
And when they did it on Saturday, it somehow took just four innings to make it happen. The accomplishment: Everyone in the starting lineup had at least one RBI. That hadn't happened for the Pirates since Sept.
16, 1975, according to MLB. com . They had made it happen by the time four innings were in the books of their Saturday 17-7 win over the Cincinnati Reds .
The Pirates were definitely helped by the fact that at one point, the Reds walked seven Pittsburgh hitters in a row. But no matter how it happens, having everyone drive in a run is absolutely incredible. “It was really impressive,” manager Don Kelly told reporters after the game, via MLB.