Pirates 7 Cardinals 0

Strangely enough, the Pirates swept the Cardinals at PNC today with a relatively easy 7-0 win and the sun and moon are still in the sky following their same relative patterns, and near as I can tell hell hasn't frozen over.

All kidding aside, the Pirates put together their third consective good baseball game against the Cards today. Maholm pitched fairly well and got himself out of several jams to put up his 6 and 2/3rd shutout innings. Torres bailed him out of some trouble in the 7th and Marte and Capps shut the door over the next two innings. Bay and Randa provided enough offense for the pitching in the second inning with their back to back solo homers off of Marquis that landed in nearly the exact same same spot in the left field bleachers. Lanny was actually in the middle of providing valuable insight when Bay went deep as he was busy telling us that Marquis was tied for the NL lead in homers given up. The rest of the offense was provided by Chris Duffy (?) and his 3 RBIs as well as a 2 RBI double from Freddy (who added another hit to bring his average to .346). Duffy also had another good game with two more hits, a walk, and another stolen base. The Pirates are now 15-13 since the All-Star break and 31-28 at home. That would seem to be pretty good, minus their 30-60 record before the break and their 14-45 record on the road.

And if something apocalytic happens overnight, well, blame the Pirates.

Popular posts from this blog

WHYGAVS has moved

It's official. WHYGAVS now has a new official home. It's actually at WHYGAVS.com , which means that it's the same as the old home, but I'm off Blogger now, which means that this old link won't redirect. You'll have to subscribe to a new feed if that's how you read WHYGAVS, but beyond that things are going to be mostly the same.
Read more

Links

For reasons that will become shortly apparent, I've been working on cleaning/updating the sidebar links. That means that I've got some new links to add to the sidebar, as well as some other things for your general perusal. Cory Humes, Geeves, and Alan from Bucco Wire are all blogging again at MVN under the header Pirate Revolution . There's also The Green Weenie and The 'Burgh Blues , two blogs I should've added some time ago. Meanwhile, Dejan's series about the Pirates' presence in the Dominican is awesome. I'm sure most of you have been checking it out as it's been published, but if you haven't I can't recommend parts one , two , and three , Renee Gayo's list of the top 5 prospects yet to play in America , and everything else that DK's put on his blog on the subject enough. It's an awesome look in to the Bucs' international operation and how things have changed since Bob Nutting took the lack of Pirate presence in the reg...
Read more

The Pirates are talking to Mark Loretta

There are a couple of possible reactions when reading that the Pirates are talking to Mark Loretta . The easy reaction is, "Well, so long as he's replacing Chris Gomez, I'm fine with that." That's true. Loretta's a useful utility infielder that can still handle a bat fairly well and can play just about every position in the infield in a short-term capacity. In fact, he's probably a better hitter than Gomez and he can't really be a worse fielder. That may make him more the successor to Doug Mientkiewicz, which is fine by me as well. But then I started thinking. Aren't we trying to trade our shortstop away? Isn't "successor to Jack Wilson" a position that needs filled on the depth chart at the moment? I mean, I know Huntington's not looking at Loretta as a starting shortstop next year ... but what if he is? This is how the offseason drives people crazy. You can go months and months without hearing any rumors, then as soon as rumor...
Read more