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The complexities of baseball scheduling are incredible. Every team has to play 162 games, but 81 of them have to be played at a team's home stadium. There's division play, non-division play, concerns about days off, travel times, the locations of road trips, and there's interleague play, too. It's insane. When the season starts, the schedule is as good as it can get. But when teams start adding postponements and makeup games into the mix, schedules can get crazy and weird. The Pittsburgh Pirates have been dealing with just that situation this week. [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now ] You can watch the Pirates try to handle the most difficult part of their weird schedule when they take on the Colorado Rockies in Denver today, and you can watch it for free! Why? It's Yahoo Sports' MLB Free Game of the Day, of course! First pitch is at 5:10 p.m. ET, and y ou can stream the game for free on Yahoo's  Sports Home ,  MLB index  and  video home . Local blackouts apply, per MLB rules. Continue to Article

June 09, 2016 11:01:am EST

The Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies were scheduled to have off days at home Thursday. After their 6-5 loss in 10 innings to the New York Mets on Wednesday night, the Pirates flew to Denver for a Thursday afternoon game with the Rockies. On Thursday night, the Pirates will return to Pittsburgh to complete their nine-game homestand, which resumes with a Friday night game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Continue to Article

June 09, 2016 1:57:am EST

Jered Weaver's fastball was still slow by major league standards. Chris Parmelee homered twice in his first start for the Yankees, Carlos Beltran added two more big hits to his huge series and New York's bats broke loose late in a 12-6 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night. ''We're getting some leads, but we're just not closing some of these games out,'' Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. Continue to Article

June 09, 2016 1:27:am EST

After his first bad outing of the season, Jimmy Nelson will look to get back on track Thursday night when the Milwaukee Brewers open a four-game series with the defending NL Champion New York Mets at Miller Park. If there's one thing the Milwaukee Brewers have been able to count on this season, it's been the consistency of Nelson, a 27-year-old right hander. "I think he could be the Cy Young Award winner," pitching coach Derek Johnson said during spring training. Continue to Article

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