0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/11/2014
It’s been eight days since Neil Walker first sat a game out with his back problems and one week since we learned that Andrew McCutchen’s back injury was serious enough for the Pirates to consider placing him on the disabled list. Neither player is on the disabled list yet. Walker played last Tuesday and he […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/8/2014
So far, all we know about tonight’s roster is that
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/7/2014
As much as I want Andrew McCutchen back in the lineup as soon as possible, seeing the Pirates’ secondary players combine together for easy wins and a lot of runs in two straight games is a really nice feeling of validation that the Pirates are a more complete organization and not just a team that’s […]
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So long as the Pirates are going to insist on playing with a severely short-handed 23-man roster, all I’m going to be able to say is, “They have to find a way to win some of these games.” They really should already have two wins in this series, and that first loss will really be […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/6/2014
I don’t really know exactly how long Andrew McCutchen will be out or how his absence is going to play out in the 2014 National League playoff race, but I do know that one sign that the Pirates have come a lot further in the last few years than most of us would like to […]
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Look, here’s the deal: the Pirates have a baseball game tonight. Their best player is not playing. Another player, who is somewhere between their second and fourth best player (depending on your opinion of Russell Martin and Josh Harrison) is also not playing. Even though neither player is available in any way today, neither player […]
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Now that we’re onto Day Four of the Andrew McCutchen Injury Crisis, I’ve moved back into pessimism after yesterday’s optimism that the injury wasn’t an oblique problem. The main source of it is this Mike Petriello FanGraphs piece, which is ostensibly about how badly McCutchen’s injury screws the Pirates down the stretch, but also which […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/5/2014
I suppose I have to say something about this game, right? If the Pirates are going to win many games with Andrew McCutchen on the shelf, everyone else on the club is going to have to be at their best. In the eighth inning tonight, Josh Harrison booted an inning ending double play, Justin Wilson […]
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For the first time since his callup in 2009, the Pirates are going to be without Andrew McCutchen for some unknown amount of time. If the Pirates are trying to keep him off of the disabled list but haven’t ruled it out yet, I’d assume we’re looking at something in ballpark of a week to […]
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As Dejan Kovacevic reported earlier today, Andrew McCutchen does not have a strained oblique, as
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We have recalled Starling Marte from his rehab & reinstated from the 7-day DL and placed Pedro Alvarez on the Bereavement List. #Pirates — Pirates (@Pirates) August 5, 2014
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/4/2014
OK. OK. Deep breath. Andrew McCutchen is the best player on the Pittsburgh Pirates and the thought of the Pirates being without him for a month, particularly with their upcoming schedule against the contenders in the NL Central and NL East, is terrifying. It could be season-breaking, no doubt about it. Still, the Pirates are […]
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#Breaking: #Pirates' Andrew McCutchen expected to be placed on 15-day disabled list http://t.co/spb9qk22Qq pic.twitter.com/RpCf605i3J — Pittsburgh PG (@PittsburghPG) August 4, 2014
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I don’t have a lot to say about how yesterday’s game ended. I think it’s unfathomable that the play that the game ended on wasn’t called runner interference. The rule as written prevents the runner from “intentionally” interfering with the double play turn, but given that intent is impossible to determine, you’ll almost always see […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/3/2014
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/2/2014
Late in last night’s game, Ernesto Frieri hit Paul Goldschmidt on the hands with a fastball. Given Frieri’s struggles this year, his inability to get the ball down last night, and the general game situation at the time (it was the ninth inning, so just as the Pirates were cresting after their comeback), it’s really […]
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For seven innings, this game was frustrating. “Why is Brent Morel a Major League player?/Seriously this year is the year that nobody wants to trade for a prospect?/Seriously, why even bother having replay if you can’t look at that play?/OK, really, Vidal Nuno was A WASHINGTON WILD THING!!!” sort of frustrating. Then, the Pirates’ offense […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 8/1/2014
While we were in with Hurdle MT @indyindians Sat. SP will be Rafael Perez. Had earlier been announced that Gerrit Cole would be starting. — Bill Brink (@BrinkPG) August 2, 2014
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As much as we’re all varying degrees of disappointed that the Pirates didn’t change much at yesterday’s deadline, the reality of the situation is this: there are 55 baseball games left in the 2014 season, and there are only 2 1/2 games between the Pirates and first place in the NL Central. That’s what’s important […]
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I had the Pirates game on last night and was dozing off throughout the whole game, but my one main takeaway was this: Of course, hours after the Pirates fail to trade for pitching help, Jeff Locke gives up a game-breaking home run to Andy Marte. Andy Marte, you might recall, was once the successor […]
