As the Pittsburgh Pirates are off to a sub .500 season in 2015, Buccos fans are hopeful that their team will be returning to the post-season for a third straight season.
Chances of that are slim if history repeats itself. For a team that began playing professional baseball in the Steel City in 1882 as the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, The Alleghenys/Pirates have made the playoffs in three successive years just twice. Those years were from 1970-1972 (coincidentally ’72 was Roberto Clemente‘s final season), and from 1990 to 1992.
Pittsburgh won the World Series in 1971 but with Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla powering the team in the early ’90s, those teams failed to make it to the baseball’s final round.