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| He flies through the air...(photo Pittsburgh Pirates) |
Scooter Gennett opened the sixth with a triple. Cutch pulled it back from above the fence by climbing the wall, but the ball popped out of his mitt on the return to earth. Still, a great effort and one that Cole acknowledged with a cap tip. It only delayed the inevitable as a sac fly made it 5-2. AJ Schugel took over in the seventh for the Bucs followed by Wandy Peralta for Cincy, and they exchanged zippos. Dovydas Neverauskas took the hill in the eighth and it wasn't pretty. A single, wild pitch, single, steal, single, wild pitch, walk (the ump's fault, not Dovy's; Ted Barrett hasn't had a good night either) brought home two more runs before a DP brought it to a close. Drew Storen gave up a J-Hay double and two-out J-Bell knock to squeeze it to 7-3. Wade LeBlanc tossed a 1-2-3 ninth while Kevin Shackelford did the same. Game, set, match.
Notes:
- Freeser had two hits and Starling walked twice.
- The Pirates are 63-72, the most games below .500 that the club has been this season. They've lost 14-of-19 since they were 58-58 on August 11th.
- 23,569 was the announced gate. That's a pretty poor turnout for a fireworks night and there weren't nearly that number of warm fannies in the house.
- Matt Powers of Minor League Ball scouted a Mitch Keller outing. Here's his impressions.
- Pirates’ 17th-round pick 1B/OF Mason Martin from Southridge (Kansas) HS was voted the Gulf Coast League MVP. The 18-year-old's slash was .311/.458/.648 w/11 HR in 38 games.
- Mark the Shark, now w/the Giants, is looking at unspecified forearm surgery per MLB Trade Rumors.
Melancon had Tommy John surgery once upon a time and those guys are always at risk for additional "forearm issues". Trading him was definitely the right way to go, sorry to say.
ReplyDeleteThis team and organization as a whole seem to have badly lost direction in 2017. What are they trying to accomplish? Where are they going? Rebuilding? Waiting for 2018 to take one more shot with the current group? And what's up with continuing to play Chris Stewart and John Jaso in September of a lost season? That makes no sense whatsoever. And losing Nicasio for nothing was a real head-scratcher. I suppose the question to be answered is how much of this has to do with Bob Nutting and how much with Neal Huntington---or maybe with both of them---but there doesn't seem to be any strategy or direction. What's going on?
Exactly what is going on WJP???? - The fans, especially the loyal ones that paid for and approved of pnc Park and have been loyal for over 20 years of misery & to all the more current loyal fans - this is a disgrace to all of us,and quite frankly it's just a embarrassment to be a bucs fan, it's a disgrace to the city and the way nutjob & Neal h. Continue to insult our intelligence is quite frankly disgusting. Time to boycott nutting by not going to any games or watching any games and boycott 7 springs for anyone who goes there, just quit going and stop supporting them all together, it's simply a disgrace to a great city and a once very proud franchise. He's obviously only worried about pinching pennies and making max profits. Frank Coonely & Neal Huntington are a disgrace,if they had any character and integrity or aspinal cord they would step down & resign immediately. Hurdle should just simply walk away immediately also, that would be awesome to see but unfortunately we just continue to suffer - well I say and I know I speak for many more thousands of people - Enough is Enough
DeleteI'd say no direction is a pretty good description, Will. The window is closing with Cutch and maybe Cole as short-timers, so not much reason for the FO to tread water. Should be a fairly telling off season.
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