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Pirates to play Blue Jays in Montreal next spring
- Updated: September 29, 2016
PITTSBURGH — For the fourth straight year, there will be Major League Baseball in Montreal. This time, the Pirates are getting in on the action.
The Pirates will wrap up Spring Training next year with a pair of exhibition games against the Blue Jays at Olympic Stadium north of the border. The clubs are scheduled to play Friday, March 31, at 7:05 p.m. ET and Saturday, April 1, at 1:05 p.m.
This will be the Bucs’ first trip to Montreal since July 2004, when they played the Expos in their final season before moving to Washington and becoming the Nationals. Quebec hasn’t seen regular-season Major League Baseball since the end of that year.
The two-game series will be the fourth set of preseason contests played in Montreal over the last four years, all of them involving the Blue Jays. The Jays played the Mets in 2014, the Reds in ’15 and drew more than 100,000 fans for a pair of games against the Red Sox earlier this year.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle …
