As the Pittsburgh Pirates find themselves on a nine-game road trip this week, 50 years ago from April 25 through May 1 the Buccos were also on the road.
In the span of that one week covering eight games played (there was a doubleheader on Sunday, May 2), Pittsburgh won just one game. The single victory that week came against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a shutout by Bob Veale, 2-0. The other seven games were notched in the standings as a loss.
The Pirates would finish the season as winners with an impressive 90-72 mark but that was only good enough for third place in the National League in a time when there were no divisions, just the National and American leagues with first place finishers heading to the World Series.