0 comments by Pat Lackey on 5/6/2014
So, one night after one of the weirdest baseball games you’ll ever see anywhere, the Pirates and Giants had a pitcher’s duel that ended when a manager’s challenge gave Starling Marte home plate on a triple + error in the bottom of the ninth. OK. The good news for the Pirates tonight is that Charlie […]
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After yesterday’s debacle/whatever, the Pirates and Giants play again at 7:05 tonight. Tim Hudson and Charlie Morton. I think I need a night off. Image credit: Jan Fidler, Flickr
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Roster move: We have optioned LHP Jeff Locke to the @indyindians and have recalled RHP Phil Irwin (#46) from Triple-A. #Pirates — Pirates (@Pirates) May 6, 2014
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In the fifth inning last night, this game was a joke. Yusmiero Petit was terrible for the Giants from the start, and then they relieved him with Jake Dunning. Dunning is the guy that was just called up to take the place of Matt Cain and his minor league numbers might as well spell “mop-up […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 5/5/2014
I’d rather pull my toenails out than re-live this game by writing about it. Image credit: grahamc99, Flickr
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Jeff Locke will make his first start of 2014 for the Pirates tonight, filling in for Brandon Cumpton (short rest due to a double header) who was filling in for Wandy Rodriguez (knee problem and/or terrible due to old age). That sentence probably tells you most of what you need to know about the Pirates’ […]
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Rather than waste too much breath on a recap of a game that happened 24 hours ago (we can summarize it thusly: as it turns out Edinson Volquez’s poor peripherals were a sign that his comeback this year is going to be more difficult than the first few starts suggested after all!), I’d much rather […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 5/4/2014
These last two Pirate games have been a lot of things: they’ve been fun to watch, they’ve been heartening, they’ve been solid bullpen outings, and they’ve been a sign that even the Pirates can occasionally find a way to hit a baseball hard and have it not land in a fielder’s glove. The one thing […]
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On the interminable and awful road trip/homestand/road trip sequence that consumed the Pirates after the season’s first week ended, something about the Pirates just felt different than the 2013 edition. I fully admit that this is the sort of thing that fans say when they don’t understand exactly what was wrong, but the 2013 Pirates had […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 5/3/2014
I think that the drill is relatively familiar to everyone here by now. 11-18 is not very good, and 12-18 would be a little bit better. Certainly, 12-18 is required to get to 13-18. Don’t think of what you need to do to get out of the building, just think of what you need to do to get out of the room.
Francisco Liriano makes his first start today since his flu-like-incident last weekend. The Pirates really need him to pitch well. RA Dickey has made some rough starts this year, so if the Pirates can show a little bit of patience, I think they’ll have a chance to score some runs off of him.
First pitch tonight is at 7:05.
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 5/2/2014
The Pirates are 10-18. That’s bad. If they win today, they’ll be 11-18. That’s slightly less bad. If they lose, they’ll be 10-19. I know which one I’d prefer. Brandon Morrow pitches for the Blue Jays tonight. The two things I’d like to say about this are: 1.) Holy crap has Brendon Morrow walked a […]
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Once upon a time, this day was off to a promising start for the Pirates. Charlie Morton cruised through three innings and the Pirates had runners more or less perpetually on base in the early innings against Bud Norris despite only scoring one run. Then the rain came, Morton lost his edge, and when the […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 5/1/2014
If this Pirate season is going to be more successful than their difficult April suggests, then almost by necessity we’re going to have to look at this three-day break created by rainy Baltimore as the turning point. The Pirates really just can’t keep scraping along the way they have been for much longer and hope […]
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On Monday, I opened up the Pirates’ Baseball Reference page and noticed something: for as bad as they’ve looked in April, their run differential isn’t really hugely out of whack. In their 26 games, they’ve score 96 runs and allowed 104. It was a long shot, but if the Pirates had played these two games […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 4/30/2014
Tonight's game in Baltimore has been postponed & will be made up tomorrow as part of a doubleheader at 4:05pm. pic.twitter.com/2nico6uVZU — Pirates (@Pirates) April 30, 2014
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 4/29/2014
Tonight’s #Orioles/#Pirates game has been postponed due to rain & will be made up on Thursday night. — FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) April 29, 2014
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 4/28/2014
There was a moment in the bottom of the second inning in which I was sure the Pirates were about to come off of the rails yesterday. With one out and runners on first and third, Daniel Descalso hit a sharp grounder to Edinson Volquez. It should’ve been an easy inning-ending double play, but Volquez […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 4/27/2014
If you remember back to last Sunday, what I wanted was for the Pirates to play a solid game from start to finish, get a nice, comfortable lead, and win by a score of, say, 4-1. They finally did more or less just that yesterday, nearly a week after I was hoping for it. I […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 4/26/2014
The Pirates will look to stop playing terribly today against the Cardinals. They’ve scored one run in their last two games, and they’ve decided to bat Josh Harrison second today. I’m sure that will go brilliantly. Russell Martin is now on the disabled list with his hamstring problem, so Tony Sanchez has been called up and […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 4/25/2014
I usually save this for two straight shutouts, but …
