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  • Joon Lee, ESPNJun 22, 2023, 10:00 AM ET

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The Pittsburgh Pirates unveiled their City Connect uniforms Thursday, a yellow and black look that pays homage to the city’s bridges and exemplifies the city’s shifting from the steel industry toward medicine and technology.

“We anchored in this idea, this transition this city is going through, an evolution,” Pirates executive vice president of marketing and fan engagement Stephen Perkins said. “While the steel industry is here, this city is becoming a technology center.”

On the front of the uniform is a PGH graphic featuring a structural font meant as a nod to the city’s bridges. Each letter contains a texture also found on the Roberto Clemente Bridge, which connects downtown Pittsburgh to PNC Park, home of the Pirates.

“We wanted this to be a forward looking view of what Pittsburgh is,” Perkins said. “We didn’t want to do the obvious thing and make it look like steel or like the bridge.”

Across the uniform is a subtle pattern that features an astroid design, an iconic shape for the Pittsburgh steel industry, a three rivers shape nodding to the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers meeting and a checkered look, which is a reference to the seal of the city. On the sleeve is a patch of the Pirates “P.”

“Pittsburgh has a blue-collar, heads-down mentality,” Perkins said. “We aren’t boisterous, so the design inspiration was subtlety and trying to tell the story that the beauty is in the details, there’s more than meets the eye.”

Above the jersey’s jock tag is the phrase, “We bleed black and gold.” The uniform also features black pants, a growing trend among baseball uniforms since the start of the City Connect series in 2021. While the Pirates did look at other colors and nicknames for the city used by other teams and schools, the team landed on this design.

“We’re the only city where all teams wear the same colors. Black and gold is the city,” Perkins said. “You don’t make design decisions for design’s sake.”

The Pirates will wear the uniform Friday nights at home, debuting the look on June 27 against the San Diego Padres.

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Move aside, hot dogs, peanuts and Cracker Jack. Baseball teams are becoming more innovative and stepping up their food game in 2025.

One of those creations is the Philadelphia Phillies‘ limited-edition “Fall Classic Shake,” which includes a vanilla soft serve, blended with dulce de leche. If that wasn’t enough, an apple cider donut tops it off. Philadelphia has been on a heater in the kitchen recently — it also unveiled a postseason 9-9-9 challenge box last Friday.

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Jackson Chourio will start in left field for Game 2 of the NLDS for the Milwaukee Brewers and bat leadoff against the Chicago Cubs, manager Pat Murphy said Monday.

Chourio, 21, had an MRI after leaving Game 1 on Saturday with a right hamstring injury after legging out an infield hit in the bottom of the second inning. It’s the same hamstring he injured in July — also while playing against the Cubs.

Murphy said Chourio isn’t 100% and would be removed if he’s hampered at all by the injury.

“I’m sure it’s not 100%, but I’m more worried about behavior than feelings,” Murphy said. “However he feels isn’t as important as how he behaves. If he gets in a situation where he doesn’t feel like he can do the job, we’re going to take him out.”

Chourio was 3-for-3 with three RBIs in Game 1 before he suffered the injury. He hit .270 with 21 home runs and 78 RBIs during the regular season.

The Brewers lead the best-of-5 series 1-0.

ESPN’s Jesse Rogers and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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