{"id":240952,"date":"2026-07-11T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240952\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:11:27","slug":"pirates-brewers-opener-postponed-due-to-rain-doubleheader-slated-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240952\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates, Brewers opener postponed due to rain; doubleheader slated for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a rain delay of 90 minutes at PNC Park, Friday\u2019s series opener between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers was postponed because of anticipated inclement weather throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates (47-47) and Brewers (59-34) instead will play a doubleheader Saturday, with Game 1 beginning at 12:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 will begin at the regularly scheduled time of 4:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>While Friday\u2019s game was postponed, the evening\u2019s scheduled fireworks display at PNC Park is still planned.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update on tonight&#8217;s game: we will host a split doubleheader tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BXO6vQBQXv\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BXO6vQBQXv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pirates\/status\/2075734643836326271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 11, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Note: Rounds 1 through 4 of the 2026 MLB Draft begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The Pirates hold the No. 5 overall pick, as well as Nos. 34, 44, 51, 80 and 108 on Day 1. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a rain delay of 90 minutes at PNC Park, Friday\u2019s series opener between the Pittsburgh Pirates and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-240952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}