1998 Pittsburgh Pirates season

1998 Pittsburgh Pirates
Major League affiliations
	National League (since 1887);
	Central Division (since 1994);
Location
	Three Rivers Stadium (since 1970);
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (since 1882);
Results
Record	69–93 (.426)
Divisional place	6th
Other information
Owner(s)	Kevin McClatchy
General manager(s)	Cam Bonifay
Manager(s)	Gene Lamont
Local television	WPGH-TV/WCWB-TV; Steve Blass; Lanny Frattare; Greg Brown; Bob Walk; Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh; Steve Blass; Lanny Frattare; Greg Brown; Bob Walk
Local radio	KDKA; Steve Blass; Lanny Frattare; Greg Brown; Bob Walk
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The 1998 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 117th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 112th in Major League Baseball (MLB). The Pirates finished sixth in the National League Central with a record of 69–93.

Offseason

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Regular season

Season standings

v t e NL Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Houston Astros	102	60	0.630	—	55–26	47–34
Chicago Cubs	90	73	0.552	12½	51–31	39–42
St. Louis Cardinals	83	79	0.512	19	48–34	35–45
Cincinnati Reds	77	85	0.475	25	39–42	38–43
Milwaukee Brewers	74	88	0.457	28	38–43	36–45
Pittsburgh Pirates	69	93	0.426	33	40–40	29–53

Record vs. opponents

1998 National League Records v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
Team	ARI	ATL	CHC	CIN	COL	FLA	HOU	LAD	MIL	MON	NYM	PHI	PIT	SD	SF	STL	AL
Arizona	—	1–8	5–7	4–5	6–6	6–2	4–5	4–8	6–3	2–7	4–5	2–7	6–3	3–9	5–7	2–7	5–8
Atlanta	8–1	—	3–6	7–2	5–3	7–5	4–5	8–1	7–2	6–6	9–3	8–4	7–2	5–4	7–2	6–3	9–7
Chicago	7–5	6–3	—	6–5	7–2	7–2	4–7	4–5	6–6	7–2	4–5	3–6	8–3	5–4	7–3	4–7	5–8
Cincinnati	5–4	2–7	5–6	—	4–5	9–0	3–8	5–4	6–5	8–1	3–6	4–5	5–7	1–11	2–7	8–3	7-6
Colorado	6–6	3–5	2–7	5–4	—	6–3	6–5	6–6	4–7	7–2	3–6	5–4	5–4	5–7	7–5	3–6	4–8
Florida	2–6	5–7	2–7	0–9	3–6	—	3–6	4–5	0–9	5–7	5–7	6–6	3–6	4–5	0–9	4–5	8–8
Houston	5–4	5–4	7–4	8–3	5–6	6-3	—	3–6	9–2	7–2	5–4	7–2	9–2	5–4	6–3	5–7	10–4
Los Angeles	8–4	1–8	5–4	4–5	6–6	5–4	6–3	—	5–4	5–4	3–5	5–4	7–5	5–7	6–6	4–5	8–5
Milwaukee	3–6	2–7	6–6	5–6	7–4	9–0	2–9	4–5	—	6–3	1–8	4–5	6–5	3–6	5–4	3–8	8–6
Montreal	7–2	6–6	2–7	1–8	2–7	7–5	2–7	4–5	3–6	—	8–4	5–7	2–7	4–4	3–6	3–6	6–10
New York	5–4	3–9	5–4	6–3	6–3	7–5	4–5	5–3	8–1	4–8	—	8–4	4–5	4–5	4–5	6–3	9–7
Philadelphia	7-2	4–8	6–3	5–4	4–5	6–6	2–7	4–5	5–4	7–5	4–8	—	8–1	1–8	2–6	3–6	7–9
Pittsburgh	3–6	2–7	3–8	7–5	4–5	6–3	2–9	5–7	5–6	7–2	5–4	1–8	—	5–4	2–7	6–5	6–7
San Diego	9–3	4–5	4–5	11–1	7–5	5–4	4–5	7–5	6–3	4–4	5–4	8–1	4–5	—	8–4	6–3	6–7
San Francisco	7–5	2–7	3–7	7–2	5–7	9–0	3–6	6–6	4–5	6–3	5–4	6–2	7–2	4–8	—	7–5	8–5
St. Louis	7–2	3–6	7–4	3–8	6–3	5-4	7–5	5–4	8–3	6–3	3–6	6–3	5–6	3–6	5–7	—	4–9

Game Log

1998 Game Log (69–93)

April (11–16)

May (15–14)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
28	May 1	Dodgers	5–4	Tabaka (1–1)	Dreifort	Loiselle (6)	15,491	12–16
29	May 2	Dodgers	4–5	Martinez	Lieber (1–4)	Radinsky	22,629	12–17
30	May 3	Dodgers	5–10	Park	Silva (2–3)	—	18,674	12–18
31	May 5	Cardinals	5–2	Cordova (4–2)	Mercker	Loiselle (7)	10,329	13–18
32	May 6	Cardinals	5–0	Schmidt (4–1)	Stottlemyre	—	12,051	14–18
33	May 7	Reds	8–7	Dessens (1–1)	Belinda	Loiselle (8)	8,400	15–18
34	May 8	Reds	3–5 (10)	Belinda	Rincon (0–1)	Shaw	13,848	15–19
35	May 9	Reds	6–1	Silva (3–3)	Winchester	Peters (1)	27,185	16–19
36	May 10	Reds	3–4 (12)	Belinda	Loiselle (1–3)	—	19,507	16–20
37	May 11	Rockies	5–2	Schmidt (5–1)	Ritz	—	9,498	17–20
38	May 12	Rockies	6–0	Loaiza (2–1)	Wright	—	12,954	18–20
39	May 13	@ Astros	0–1	Hampton	Lieber (1–5)	Wagner	14,239	18–21
40	May 14	@ Astros	7–2	Silva (4–3)	Schourek	—	16,123	19–21
41	May 15	@ Diamondbacks	1–6	Suppan	Cordova (4–3)	—	43,584	19–22
42	May 16	@ Diamondbacks	6–3	Schmidt (6–1)	Anderson	Loiselle (9)	48,167	20–22
43	May 17	@ Diamondbacks	2–8	Benes	Loaiza (2–2)	—	44,014	20–23
44	May 18	@ Diamondbacks	2–9	Blair	Lieber (1–6)	—	41,465	20–24
45	May 19	Padres	3–0	Silva (5–3)	Hamilton	Loiselle (10)	10,493	21–24
46	May 20	Padres	5–2	Cordova (5–3)	Ashby	Loiselle (11)	—	22–24
47	May 20	Padres	3–8	Hitchcock	Peters (0–3)	—	17,248	22–25
48	May 21	Padres	3–2	Schmidt (7–1)	Brown	Rincon (2)	10,222	23–25
49	May 22	@ Marlins	1–3	Hernandez	Loaiza (2–3)	—	22,057	23–26
50	May 23	@ Marlins	10–4	Lieber (2–6)	Fontenot	Rincon (3)	30,499	24–26
51	May 24	@ Marlins	3–4	Powell	Christiansen (0–1)	—	16,972	24–27
52	May 26	@ Brewers	2–3	Myers	Loiselle (1–4)	—	12,272	24–28
53	May 27	@ Brewers	2–3 (10)	Woodall	Rincon (0–2)	—	10,274	24–29
54	May 29	Expos	1–4	Perez	Lieber (2–7)	Urbina	17,053	24–30
55	May 30	Expos	8–7	Christiansen (1–1)	Urbina	—	38,149	25–30
56	May 31	Expos	9–4	Cordova (6–3)	Batista	—	24,718	26–30

June (13–14)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
57	June 1	Mets	4–3	Schmidt (8–1)	Mlicki	Rincon (4)	11,274	27–30
58	June 2	Mets	5–2	Peters (1–3)	Bohanon	Rincon (5)	9,040	28–30
59	June 3	Mets	3–0	Lieber (3–7)	Reed	Christiansen (1)	17,691	29–30
60	June 5	Twins	6–1	Silva (6–3)	Morgan	—	28,446	30–30
61	June 6	Twins	4–3 (12)	Loaiza (3–3)	Aguilera	—	19,809	31–30
62	June 7	Twins	2–3	Serafini	Schmidt (8–2)	Aguilera	32,773	31–31
63	June 8	@ Indians	0–8	Colon	Peters (1–4)	—	43,068	31–32
64	June 9	@ Indians	7–4	Lieber (4–7)	Morman	Rincon (6)	41,762	32–32
65	June 10	@ Indians	4–3 (11)	Loaiza (4–3)	Mesa	Loiselle (12)	43,101	33–32
66	June 12	Brewers	2–4	Karl	Cordova (6–4)	Wickman	16,851	33–33
67	June 13	Brewers	1–8	Juden	Schmidt (8–3)	—	28,945	33–34
68	June 14	Brewers	7–2	Peters (2–4)	Woodard	—	23,755	34–34
69	June 15	@ Phillies	1–2	Beech	Lieber (4–8)	Leiter	14,411	34–35
70	June 16	@ Phillies	7–8	Dodd	Loiselle (1–5)	—	24,615	34–36
71	June 17	@ Phillies	1–3	Schilling	Cordova (6–5)	—	25,694	34–37
72	June 18	@ Brewers	1–0	Dessens (2–1)	Jones	Rincon (7)	14,774	35–37
73	June 19	@ Brewers	1–2	Woodard	Peters (2–5)	Wickman	20,935	35–38
74	June 20	@ Brewers	4–2	Lieber (5–8)	Eldred	Rincon (8)	28,556	36–38
75	June 21	@ Brewers	8–7	Loaiza (5–3)	Juden	Rincon (9)	22,338	37–38
76	June 22	White Sox	4–5	Castillo	Dessens (2–2)	Karchner	21,531	37–39
77	June 23	White Sox	4–5	Sirotka	Schmidt (8–4)	Karchner	20,310	37–40
78	June 24	@ Royals	10–3	Peters (3–5)	Rusch	—	18,007	38–40
79	June 25	@ Royals	1–6	Belcher	Lieber (5–9)	—	22,504	38–41
80	June 26	@ Dodgers	2–5	Park	Loaiza (5–4)	Osuna	52,934	38–42
81	June 27	@ Dodgers	0–2	Valdez	Cordova (6–6)	—	37,821	38–43
82	June 28	@ Dodgers	6–4	Williams (1–0)	Radinsky	Loiselle (13)	38,865	39–43
83	June 30	Tigers	0–3	Moehler	Lieber (5–10)	—	11,760	39–44

July (11–15)

August (14–12)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
110	August 1	Astros	1–2	Lima	Williams (2–1)	—	19,783	50–60
111	August 2	Astros	2–6	Johnson	Christiansen (1–2)	Elarton	21,201	50–61
112	August 3	Rockies	2–7	Jones	Lieber (8–12)	—	11,204	50–62
113	August 4	Rockies	13–5	Christiansen (2–2)	Kile	—	15,784	51–62
114	August 5	Rockies	2–6	Wright	Cordova (9–10)	—	12,862	51–63
115	August 6	Rockies	1–5	Thomson	Schmidt (8–9)	—	14,060	51–64
116	August 7	@ Dodgers	1–3	Bohanon	Van Poppel (1–1)	Shaw	41,676	51–65
117	August 8	@ Dodgers	1–2	Osuna	Christiansen (2–3)	—	45,187	51–66
118	August 9	@ Dodgers	2–1	Peters (6–8)	Park	Rincon (12)	43,227	52–66
119	August 11	@ Reds	7–0	Cordova (10–10)	Tomko	—	16,399	53–66
120	August 12	@ Reds	5–4	Schmidt (9–9)	Remlinger	Rincon (13)	16,946	54–66
121	August 13	@ Reds	9–6	McCurry (1–1)	Harnisch	Rincon (14)	16,002	55–66
122	August 14	@ Cardinals	5–10	Osborne	Lieber (8–13)	—	47,836	55–67
123	August 15	@ Cardinals	7–8 (12)	Painter	McCurry (1–2)	—	46,817	55–68
124	August 16	@ Cardinals	4–1	Cordova (11–10)	Morris	Lieber (1)	46,904	56–68
125	August 18	Dodgers	6–4	Schmidt (10–9)	Perez	Loiselle (15)	12,730	57–68
126	August 19	Dodgers	6–5	Williams (3–1)	Bohanon	Christiansen (5)	27,259	58–68
127	August 20	Reds	6–5	Christiansen (3–3)	Graves	—	13,137	59–68
128	August 21	Reds	14–2	Peters (7–8)	Tomko	—	17,007	60–68
129	August 22	Cardinals	14–4	Cordova (12–10)	Witt	—	45,082	61–68
130	August 23	Cardinals	4–3	Schmidt (11–9)	Mercker	Christiansen (6)	42,134	62–68
131	August 24	Cardinals	5–5 (7)	—	—	—	28,435	62–68
132	August 25	@ Diamondbacks	9–6	Lawrence (1–0)	Sodowsky	Loiselle (16)	38,960	63–68
133	August 26	@ Diamondbacks	4–3	Tabaka (2–1)	Daal	Loiselle (17)	39,906	64–68
134	August 28	@ Astros	0–2	Johnson	Cordova (12–11)	—	40,709	64–69
135	August 29	@ Astros	3–6	Lima	Schmidt (11–10)	Powell	41,762	64–70
136	August 30	@ Astros	4–11	Reynolds	McCurry (1–3)	—	25,342	64–71

September (5–22)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
137	September 1	Diamondbacks	3–4	Daal	Peters (7–9)	Olson	11,427	64–72
138	September 2	Diamondbacks	1–2 (11)	Small	Tabaka (2–2)	Olson	12,010	64–73
139	September 3	Diamondbacks	0–1	Anderson	Cordova (12–12)	—	8,610	64–74
140	September 4	Cubs	2–5	Karchner	Williams (3–2)	Beck	36,510	64–75
141	September 5	Cubs	4–8	Tapani	Lawrence (1–1)	Beck	37,711	64–76
142	September 6	Cubs	4–3 (10)	Loiselle (2–7)	Stevens	—	22,209	65–76
143	September 7	Brewers	3–6	Roque	Dessens (2–3)	Wickman	12,830	65–77
144	September 8	Brewers	8–7	Williams (4–2)	Plunk	Loiselle (18)	7,171	66–77
145	September 9	@ Cubs	2–4	Clark	Schmidt (11–11)	Beck	34,857	66–78
146	September 10	@ Cubs	2–5	Tapani	Silva (6–4)	Beck	38,722	66–79
147	September 11	@ Phillies	6–1	Peters (8–9)	Loewer	—	16,597	67–79
148	September 12	@ Phillies	4–13	Portugal	Dessens (2–4)	—	19,329	67–80
149	September 13	@ Phillies	1–4	Byrd	Cordova (12–13)	Leiter	19,662	67–81
150	September 14	@ Cardinals	3–7	Jimenez	Schmidt (11–12)	—	42,265	67–82
151	September 15	@ Cardinals	8–6	Lawrence (2–1)	Osborne	Loiselle (19)	—	68–82
152	September 15	@ Cardinals	3–9	Aybar	Silva (6–5)	Acevedo	41,271	68–83
153	September 16	@ Cardinals	0–4	Morris	Van Poppel (1–2)	—	39,758	68–84
154	September 18	Astros	2–5	Johnson	Dessens (2–5)	Powell	16,937	68–85
155	September 19	Astros	7–1	Cordova (13–13)	Lima	—	20,670	69–85
156	September 20	Astros	0–2	Reynolds	Schmidt (11–13)	Wagner	23,657	69–86
157	September 21	@ Giants	1–8	Hershiser	Silva (6–6)	—	15,695	69–87
158	September 22	@ Giants	2–14	Rueter	Lieber (8–14)	—	16,228	69–88
159	September 23	@ Giants	1–4	Gardner	Peters (8–10)	Nen	13,915	69–89
160	September 24	@ Giants	2–6	Ortiz	Dessens (2–6)	—	16,754	69–90
161	September 25	@ Reds	1–4	Bere	Cordova (13–14)	Graves	17,429	69–91
162	September 26	@ Reds	2–6	Harnisch	Schmidt (11–14)	White	19,391	69–92
163	September 27	@ Reds	1–4	Tomko	Silva (6–7)	—	19,360	69–93

Legend: = Win = Loss = Tie
Bold = Pirates team member

Notable transactions

July 17, 1998: Esteban Loaiza was traded by the Pirates to the Texas Rangers for Warren Morris and Todd Van Poppel.^[1]

Roster

1998 Pittsburgh Pirates

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

18 Jason Kendall
15 Keith Osik

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

32 Gene Lamont

Coaches

37 Joe Jones (first base)
45 Jack Lind (third base)
23 Lloyd McClendon (hitting)
44 Rick Renick (bench)
50 Pete Vuckovich (pitching)
54 Spin Williams (bullpen)

Opening Day starters

2B – Womack
C – Kendall
LF – Martin
1B – Young
CF – Allensworth
RF – Guillen
3B – Garcia
SS – Collier
P – Cordova

Player stats

Batting

Regular Season^[2]
Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
T. Laker	14	24	9	0.375	1	2
J. Kendall	149	535	175	0.327	12	75
J. Allensworth	69	233	72	0.309	3	24
A. Brown	41	152	43	0.283	0	5
T. Womack	159	655	185	0.282	3	45
S. Bieser	13	11	3	0.273	0	1
K. Young	159	592	160	0.270	27	108
J. Guillén	153	573	153	0.267	14	84
T. Ward	123	282	74	0.262	9	46
E. Brown	13	39	10	0.256	0	3
F. García	56	172	44	0.256	9	26
J. Christiansen	60	4	1	0.250	0	1
M. Martínez	73	180	45	0.250	6	24
T. Van Poppel	18	12	3	0.250	0	1
L. Collier	110	334	82	0.246	2	34
E. Loaiza	21	29	7	0.241	0	3
A. Martin	125	440	105	0.239	12	47
A. Ramírez	72	251	59	0.235	6	24
C. Peters	39	39	9	0.231	0	2
K. Osik	39	98	21	0.214	0	7
M. Smith	59	128	25	0.195	2	13
A. Núñez	24	52	10	0.192	1	2
K. Polcovich	81	212	40	0.189	0	14
D. Strange	90	185	32	0.173	0	14
J. Lieber	29	48	8	0.167	0	1
C. Sanford	14	28	4	0.143	0	3
F. Córdova	33	75	9	0.120	0	1
J. Schmidt	33	62	6	0.097	0	2
J. Silva	18	27	1	0.037	0	0
E. Dessens	43	8	0	0.000	0	1
S. Lawrence	7	6	0	0.000	0	0
J. Martínez	37	1	0	0.000	0	0
R. Rincón	60	2	0	0.000	0	0
J. Tabaka	37	1	0	0.000	0	0
M. Williams	37	3	0	0.000	0	0
R. Loiselle	54	0	0	—	0	0
J. McCurry	16	0	0	—	0	0
M. Wilkins	16	0	0	—	0	0

Pitching

Regular Season^[3]
Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
M. Williams	37	51	4	2	1.94	59
J. Christiansen	60	64²⁄₃	3	3	2.51	71
R. Rincón	60	65	0	2	2.91	64
J. Tabaka	37	50²⁄₃	2	2	3.02	40
F. Córdova	33	220¹⁄₃	13	14	3.31	157
R. Loiselle	54	55	2	7	3.44	48
C. Peters	39	148	8	10	3.47	103
M. Wilkins	16	15¹⁄₃	0	0	3.52	17
J. Schmidt	33	214¹⁄₃	11	14	4.07	158
J. Lieber	29	171	8	14	4.11	138
J. Silva	18	100¹⁄₃	6	7	4.40	64
E. Loaiza	21	91²⁄₃	6	5	4.52	53
J. Martínez	37	41	0	1	4.83	42
T. Van Poppel	18	47	1	2	5.36	32
E. Dessens	43	74²⁄₃	2	6	5.67	43
J. McCurry	16	19¹⁄₃	1	3	6.52	11
S. Lawrence	7	19²⁄₃	2	1	7.32	12

Awards and honors

1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Jason Kendall, C, Reserve

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Nashville Sounds	Pacific Coast League	Trent Jewett
AA	Carolina Mudcats	Southern League	Jeff Banister
A	Lynchburg Hillcats	Carolina League	Jeff Richardson and Jeff Livesey
A	Augusta Greenjackets	South Atlantic League	Marty Brown
Short-Season A	Erie Seawolves	New York-Penn League	Tracy Woodson
Rookie	GCL Pirates	Gulf Coast League	Woody Huyke

References

↑ Esteban Loaiza page at Baseball Reference
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1998 Pittsburgh Pirates team page at Baseball Reference
1998 Pittsburgh Pirates team page at www.baseball-almanac.com
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1998 Pittsburgh Pirates
Major League affiliations
National League (since 1887)
Central Division (since 1994)
Location
Three Rivers Stadium (since 1970)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (since 1882)
Results
Record	69–93 (.426)
Divisional place	6th
Other information
Owner(s)	Kevin McClatchy
General manager(s)	Cam Bonifay
Manager(s)	Gene Lamont
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