In a lot of ways, the 2018 Pittsburgh Pirates were far superior to their next-year counterparts. While the team still lacked major power, the pitching staff was on the right path. However, Opening-Day, the Pirates would look nothing like this.
It all began the day before on Thursday, March 29th. If you don’t remember, that was actually Opening-Day but got delayed due to inclement weather conditions. The game would then be picked up on Friday, March 30th at 1:10 pm, EST., and thus began the wildest contest of any of the Pirates’ past 19 Opening-Day games.