0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/29/2015
Francisco Liriano’s really only made one terrible start in 2015, and it came in May against the same Twins that he’ll face this afternoon. Actually, it was his two-inning outing that dropped the Pirates to 18-22 that brought Pirate fans to peak tooth-gnashing back in May, exactly one day before the season turned around. Liriano’s […]
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I think that most of us expected this news in one form or another, but Pirates Prospects is reporting this morning (subscription link) that Tyler Glasnow, the Pirates’ top prospect and one of the best pitching prospects in baseball, is heading to Indanapolis after dominating for much of this season in Double-A with Altoona. Glasnow’s numbers […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/28/2015
It’s not often that a team can get away with a win in a game where their starting pitcher had nothing and one of their best relievers had even less than that, but the Pirate offense and Mark Melancon managed to pull off that feat exactly tonight. I suppose 99 games into the season is […]
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One of the weirdest parts of the trade deadline every year is that baseball just keeps on going while the trades fly back and forth. Thinking about trades and roster weaknesses and potential deals always feels like off-season activity for me, and suddenly it seems hard to focus on the games that are actually happening. […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/27/2015
Watching Gerrit Cole develop this season has really been an interesting experience. In Cole’s first eleven starts, he struck out 79 hitters over 71 innings and had eight or more strikeouts five times. He was really dominant in those starts, with a 1.90 ERA and a .590 OPS against and a 61:16 K:BB. Yesterday was […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/26/2015
This post was supposed to run on Sunday, but, uh, I apparently forgot to hit publish. Here! Have it on Monday! Some of it is still applicable! After an awful start to the second half on the road, the Pirates have gotten themselves together enough to win two of three from a first place team […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/25/2015
On July 22nd, 2003, Aramis Ramirez played third and batted cleanup for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates lost 2-0 to the Houston Astros, who were their division rivals at the time. On the next day, Ramirez was traded to the Chicago Cubs in a terrible salary dump that signaled the way much of the next […]
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As I always am for Pirates and Nationals games, I’m blacked from watching these games live this weekend and so I’m just sitting down now to watch some highlights from last night’s win. Beyond all of those obvious stuff (three home runs off of a guy they couldn’t get a hit off of a month […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/24/2015
The Pirates will face off against the pitcher that nearly threw a perfect game against them a month ago (and, uh, did throw a no-hitter, I guess I’m burying the lede on that one) tonight at PNC Park, and I won’t lie, I don’t totally hate their chances against Max Scherzer tonight. The National lineup […]
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Reported last night that #Pirates were working on another deal. Like most clubs, they’ve got multiple options in play. Told nothing close. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 24, 2015
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Two hits from McCutchen, Kang, Marte and Cervelli, two RBIs from Pedro Alvarez, and home runs from McCutchen, Alvarez, and Cervelli. Francisco Liriano had a ridiculous start in which he racked up 11 strikeouts in six innings (and also 103 pitches in that span). This is, at risk of being reductive, how you win when […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/23/2015
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Sort of lost in all of the wailing and tooth-gnashing over the way the Pirates have played since Jordy Mercer went down is that the Pirates were more or less 0-3 in games played after the break before he was injured and that the only winnable game that the Pirates have lost since the break […]
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The deal is official,
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0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/22/2015
Well, at least the Pirates have the [oh shit] Nationals next.
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0 comments by Pat Lackey on 7/21/2015
Here is the reality of the Pirates current situation: they are badly short-handed. They probably won’t be this way for longer than a week, but they’re not in a situation with a ton of room for error and it’s happening against two of the best teams in baseball. That sucks, but it’s how pennant races […]
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After Gerrit Cole’s 93-pitch, six-inning start against the Phillies, I briefly mentioned that I thought it was interesting that Clint Hurdle was getting Cole out of games pretty quickly after back-to-back starts in which he threw 100+ pitches. In five starts since then, Cole threw 106, 106, 107, 106, and 114 pitches. Seeing that, maybe […]
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The Pirates weren not without holes to address at the upcoming trade deadline before Jordy Mercer’s injury on Sunday, but Mercer’s injury certainly recasts their deadline approach in a whole new light. With a bit of time to consider the situation with Mercer, Harrison, and the team in general, I’ve tried to sort of outline […]
