It’s amazing how quickly two ugly losses can make you forget about a five-game winning streak. The Pirates played bad, bad baseball against the Cubs tonight; they threw the ball around, they ran the bases poorly, they hit poorly against a bad pitcher, they pitched poorly, they got thumped. In short, it was hard to watch.
There’s not much else to say. Jeff Locke looked really bad; the Cubs hit him hard, he struggled with the strike zone, he wasn’t fooling anybody at all. Josh Harrison made another ugly error at third base, and now he’s got four before the end of April. The Pirates only mustered five total hits, and the only reason they got on the scoreboard was because of Starling Marte’s fourth inning home run.
The only highlight of this game for the Pirates was probably Radhames Liz’s four scoreless innings of relief. That says a lot about this game.
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