SEATTLE -- You know a team has been through a grueling stretch when the players are eagerly looking forward to spending their long-needed off day at ... an island prison.
"We're actually going to Alcatraz,'' Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Matt Joyce said of his plans for Pittsburgh's day off in the Bay Area on Thursday. "John Jaso is going to go, and my wife has been asking for years, and I'm going to surprise her. She likes stuff like that.''
His wife cannot have liked all the time Joyce has been at work the past month and half, though.