"I had a little emotion going on, facing my former team," Nova said. "Sometimes you're trying to do too much. I wasn't throwing strikes as usual, I wasn't hitting my spots. After that I kind of picked it up and threw strikes, tried to throw my pitches, tried to work on my changeup, my sinker and my curveball."
Meadows, starting in center field with the entire Pirates outfield away for the World Baseball Classic, sliced a two-run double down the left-field line off Yankees right-hander Bryan Mitchell to open the scoring. Barrett Barnes grounded out to drive in another run and put the Bucs ahead, 3-0.