At Chase Field on Friday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks handed the Pittsburgh Pirates a hard-fought defeat. The Pirates’ 4-3 loss dropped them to 52-51 and 2.5 games behind in the National League wild card standings.
The game was memorable for Pirates legend Andrew McCutchen even though they lost. The former MVP scored one run, doubled, and drove in one. By doing this, he moved up into the Pirates Top-10 on the all-time hits list for the team.
According to social media user Jon Drekker:
Here’s a crazy thing to think about with Andrew McCutchen entering the Pittsburgh Pirates top ten hits list. The order of that top ten hasn’t changed since Willie Stargell passed Bill Mazeroski in September of 1978. The Pirates have had the same top ten for nearly 46 full years
In the 16th year of his career, McCutchen now has 2,123 hits. He’s accumulated some of that through stops in San Francisco, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and New York (Yankees) as well. With Pittsburgh, he has 1,638 career hits.
McCutchen is a five-time All-Star, a four-time Silver Slugger and a Gold Glover as well. He has said that he’s open to returning in 2025 as well for what would be a 17th big league season
Leave a Reply