OK let's celebrate while we can! For you soccer fans out there a grand slam is a home run with runners on all three bases.
There was that exceptional blast, the one with the bases loaded in the fifth inning Friday off the bat of Pirates second baseman Neil Walker that bounced clear out of Wrigley Field.
That shot will be the most vivid opening-day memory as the Pirates claimed a 6-3 victory against the Chicago Cubs.
And rightly so, the grand slam was just the second on opening day in Pirates history; the other hit by Roberto Clemente, the Hall of Fame right fielder, against Jim Owens and the Philadelphia Phillies April 10, 1962.
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