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Top 10 Pirates Postseason Moments: #6 - “Win it for Chuck Tanner’s mom”

With October winding down and postseason baseball heating up, we figured that it would be fun to craft a list of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ top 10 postseason moments of all-time.

This is an opportunity to bring back some nostalgia and spread some positivity as we tune into the World Series.

Coming in at No. 6 on our list...

The Pirates lost three of the first four games of the 1979 World Series, but manager Chuck Tanner had a much greater loss, that of his mother, who died hours before Game 5.