It was quite the weekend.

Honestly, it was a very action-packed March and after having a pair of fantasy obligations on Saturday morning/early afternoon, it was off to PNC Park for some Yankees and Pirates action.

Although I was hoping to finally take in my first softball game of the “spring” on Tuesday with Ritchie County at St. Marys, the conditions were less than ideal and evidently the newer super expensive bats have a tendency to break in cold weather, and the game was called off.

Suffice it to say Sunday afternoon’s affair was a bit on the chilly/cold side – should’ve worn the boots with the two pairs of socks instead of the sneakers in hindsight.

The gloves were a solid call, indeed.

It was by far the coldest game I’ve ever attended and after the Pirates went up 2-1 in the third the better half turns her head and informs me the game will be going to extra innings.

I just laughed.

Shows you what I know.

New York shortstop Anthony Volpe made a crazy web gem in the bottom of the second on a shot Andrew McCutchen hit up the middle. Volpe went into a slide, gloved the smoked one-hopper and managed to pop up and make the throw to first just in the nick of time.

Bryan Reynolds’ two-out, two-run double off the wall in center trumped the RBI two-bagger from Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the first to put the Pirates ahead 2-1 after three. They led until Ryan Borucki’s blown save in the ninth.

Before that took place poor Oneil Cruz was finally the GOAT and then booed on back-to-back plays in the fourth. Volpe got good wood on a delivery from Andrew Heaney and Cruz made a gnarly fully-extended diving catch as he used one hand to brace his collision with the grass.

Unfortunately, one batter later it was catcher Austin Wells who stepped to the dish and he hit what looked like a routine single. However, Cruz went over to grab the ball on a hop and failed to do so, which resulted in Wells’ second career triple as the ball went to the wall.

Enmanuel Valdez got the Pirates going in the fourth with his first career triple, which led to a 4-1 cushion as starter Will Warren didn’t return for the fifth. Tommy Pham collected his first run-batted-in as a Pirate and after an Adam Frazier timely two-out single, Isiah Kiner-Falefa went shopping at the gap with a run-scoring double.

The lefty Heaney was masterful and definitely didn’t deserve a no-decision after a 10-strikeout performance where he went seven strong on 100 pitches while allowing five hits, a walk and the one earned run.

Things looked all but over by the time Oswalda Peraza had a 2-2 count on him with two outs in the ninth and a pair of runners on, but he came up with a clutch smash that went off the glove of Ke’Bryan Hayes at third, hit the side wall and made it 4-2 after his double.

Despite being down to their final strike again and yet another 2-2 count, Trent Grisham followed with a two-run single past a diving Valdez at first to tie it up and force some free baseball.

Automatic runner Jack Suwinski stole third in the 11th and cruised home on Pham’s walk-off that gave New York closer Devin Williams, who was fresh off paternity leave, his first career loss in pinstripes.

Figuring the game was likely over in the last of the ninth we opted to head toward home plate from Section 129 and watched the rest from the concourse.

A year ago at this time the Pirates beat Baltimore on a walk-off thanks to Oriole shortstop Gunnar Henderson being unable to make a game-ending double play.

Discounting the cold, which kind of made the game more interesting to some degree, despite the lack of them on the thermometer, it was a great contest to take in.

The worst part was finding out afterward when we got back to the parking garage our planned dinner destination in Carnegie – Riley’s Pour House – had burned down back in November.

Oh, yeah, American League reigning MVP Aaron Judge finished 0 for 4 with two strikeouts and a free pass that came in extra innings. Everyone thought he got one in the eighth but the ball fell into the glove of Cruz at the wall in center for the third out.

Contact Jay Bennett at jbennett@newsandsentinel.com