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Just returned from the game. Happy with the record, but their relief pitching is a big concern. If it doesn't improve, it's going to be a long season. Also, this makes two games in which they scored in the first and were shutout the rest of the game. This despite the Twins walking a ton of batters today.bucs now 4-0
Hey, we can dream, can't we?Pirates positioning themselves as the front-runner to challenge the Reds this year! It'll be just like the 1970s again.
Hey, we can dream, can't we?
Reds and Pirates play their first of 19 games against each other on Thursday. Dock Ellis vs. Don Gullett on the pitching match-up.
Time to move on.Absolutely! That's what April and May are for for fans of bad MLB teams!
Reds and Pirates play their first of 19 games against each other on Thursday. Dock Ellis vs. Don Gullett on the pitching match-up.
I'm not a Pirate fan. My post was more about baseball on the whole than the Pirates.On the downside for you Pirates fans, you don't play the Tigers 162 times.
And, what little I follow MLB, I am a Tigers fan. It shall be a very long season in Motown.
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And still a near certainty that they'll lose 90+ games.No teams are winless.
I doubt that, but I also doubt they'll finish over .500.And still a near certainty that they'll lose 90+ games.
It is TRULY, TRULY rare to be able to say this....
But there is only one UNDEFEATED team in all of major league baseball...and that would be.....
The Pittsburgh Pirates!
The Reds announcers tonight made that claim. Mich, if you're lurking this thread, 5-2 Pirates over the Reds. They'll need to sweep the Reds on the season to draw even with them for the havoc they've caused the last several years.They came back to earth with a thud last night.
Polanco gets thrown out at home plate to end an inning - looked like he didn't care to run in the cold weather. Bob Walk remarks that he hopes that baserunning doesn't come back to haunt them.
Very next inning, Twins guy walks, goes to second on a wild pitch. Batter pop behind home plate - Cervelli loses the ball (in the snow) and it falls in fair territory - batter didn't run to first so Bell picks up the ball and lollipops a throw to first for the out - runner on second moves to third when the throw gets there late.
Next guy up gets a hit, beating the Hurdle metrics which had the 2nd baseman on the 3rd base side of 2nd base. Hurdle does the stroll to the mound and changes pitchers and it goes down hill from there.
The final highlight was when somebody strokes the ball into the right field corner. Polanco (still probably stiff from his base running effort in the previous half inning) gets to the ball and fires a 5 or 6 hopper to home plate. Twins base runner (who was on first base) actually slows down and looks back over his shoulder between 2nd and 3rd - still beats the throw to home plate.
Still can't believe that nobody claimed that Cervelli lost the ball in the snow.
The Reds announcers tonight made that claim. Mich, if you're lurking this thread, 5-2 Pirates over the Reds. They'll need to sweep the Reds on the season to draw even with them for the havoc they've caused the last several years.
The Reds announcers tonight made that claim. Mich, if you're lurking this thread, 5-2 Pirates over the Reds. They'll need to sweep the Reds on the season to draw even with them for the havoc they've caused the last several years.
Hear about the mistake in the Denver Post yesterday? Pretty funny.I just raced through the highlights of that game in about 5 minutes. Polanco hit that ball a long way in the cold. Nice start to 2018 for him. I can see him having an offensive breakout season.
Once the Pirates got ahead, that was that - Reds offense is scuffling thus far.
From my POV, if it's not the Reds, I prefer the Pirates be leading the NL Central! They were "sort of" my team for my few years at Penn State.
I always went back to Michigan for the summers so I never followed the Pirates day-to-day for an entire season. But my PSU friends were mostly Pirates fans so I would root for them at the end of spring semester. A lot of watching Pirate games on KBL and Fox Sports Pittsburgh in April & May.
Then I'd spend June to August in Michigan. Lots of listening to, watching and attending Detroit Tigers games. I'd still pay attention to the Pirate scores on the out-of-town scoreboard.
This being the late 1990s, though, the Pirates' games were always irrelevant by the time I got back to Central PA. There was never a Pirates pennant race to follow at the beginning of fall semester
Sorry you had to listen to the Reds announcers. Thom Brennaman is terrible. Ugh.
Hopefully the Reds and Pirates get to play at least one game in 50+ degree temperatures sometime before Memorial Day! It's no warmer out west - I have tickets to Rockies Opening Day tomorrow and it's supposed to snow here too!
Hear about the mistake in the Denver Post yesterday? Pretty funny.
Don't be a stranger.Long time lurker. First time poster. Thought I'd sneak in here with the Bucco win (now 8-2). Hope this works.
I probably won't post much right away. This place is a bit intimidating.Don't be a stranger.
Nah, remember it's social media. Nothing more.I probably won't post much right away. This place is a bit intimidating.
Yes, but it seems like you have to earn your stripes here. Anyway, I am a Pirate fan and did not expect much this season, but it sure is fun so far.Nah, remember it's social media. Nothing more.
Well, you have a kindred spirit here. Call me a sadist, but the Pirates are by far my biggest rooting interest in Pittsburgh. Always have been.Yes, but it seems like you have to earn your stripes here. Anyway, I am a Pirate fan and did not expect much this season, but it sure is fun so far.