OT: Pirates Talk: Lets Play Ball

[Booker T]

Grand slam, baby! Hopefully that gets Cruz going.

 

[TNT87]

Cruz missle

 

[Smoke]

Weirdest inning yet and I think that's saying something

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

This team either scores a bunch of runs or gets shutout.

 

[WickedWrister]

I’m glad the team showed a modicum of fight after Cutch almost got beaned in the head and their pitcher started jawing at him. Build off something, yeah?

 

[WickedWrister]

 

[ImporterExporter]

That's the most energy I've seen put of Pham all year. Gotta protect your guys, especially leaders.

Best effort of the year from the Bucs.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

That would have been Pham's biggest hit of the season.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Not bad not bad

 

[TooManyHumans]

That would have been Pham's biggest hit of the season.

He had a walk off hit in extra innings against the Yankees.

 

[BusinessGoose]

He had a walk off hit in extra innings against the Yankees.

No man, you're supposed to hate pham despite him throwing dudes out at the plate and actually doing some hits

Instead of the rest of our idiots

 

[TooManyHumans]

No man, you're supposed to hate pham despite him throwing dudes out at the plate and actually doing some hits

Instead of the rest of our idiots

He's been terrible and I didn't like the signing. I was just pointing out that he actually did have a big hit for us.

 

[Coastal Kev]

My gosh is this a boring team to watch

 

[metalan2]

1st and 3rd no one out with Cruz, Reynolds, and Mccutchen coming up?

2 strike outs and a pop up lol. Williams strikes out like 1 a game too.

 

[WickedWrister]

Gem from Heaney leads to the 3 out of 4 series win. Much needed after the Reds sweep.

 

[BusinessGoose]

RAISE IT

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Good win, the kind of game this team needs to lock down if there's any prayer at all.

If you want to do BS mental math, you can flip 2 Ls to the W column from that wretched Miami series and we'd be a perfectly mediocre 10-10. Losing series to better teams but still showing some fight. I'm not quite there yet to do the optimistic BS mental math and dismiss the early series/what is obvious from just watching this team (they are bad in the exact same way the post-ASB 2024 team was bad), but it's still 5-5 in the last 10. Palatable at least.

Cleveland is an interesting series since they are clearly better than us, even if we don't go in with the well-ingrained cynicism of the current season. It's a series where you get a Skenes start, and you have to assume that as a W, meaning 1-1 in the other two games continues to build some decent momentum.

It does seem like the attempted beanball on Cutch has served as a kind of spark to really unite the team, so whatever works. Cutch even talked about it in some postgame comments last night.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Oneil Cruz Isn’t a Center Fielder Yet

The mammoth Pirate has not taken to his new role in the outfield as readily as we’d once hoped.

blogs.fangraphs.com

TL;DR: Cruz is a liability in CF

 

[TooManyHumans]

Oneil Cruz Isn’t a Center Fielder Yet

The mammoth Pirate has not taken to his new role in the outfield as readily as we’d once hoped.

blogs.fangraphs.com

TL;DR: Cruz is a liability in CF

What a shocker. Apparently you can't just move a guy who has played nothing but shortstop to center in the majors and expect him to immediately be good at it.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

He had a walk off hit in extra innings against the Yankees.

I said his biggest, not his best, but yes, good call, that did slip my mind.

 

[Booker T]

Great defensive win Buccos!

 

[WheresRamziAbid]

What a shocker. Apparently you can't just move a guy who has played nothing but shortstop to center in the majors and expect him to immediately be good at it.

Sometimes you can sometimes you cant

Wasnt a problem for Merrill or Tatis etc

 

[ChaosAgent]

With the toxic two (Bednar and Holderman) out of the picture, the bullpen has stabilized. Unfortunately, they will come back.

 

[WheresRamziAbid]

With the toxic two (Bednar and Holderman) out of the picture, the bullpen has stabilized. Unfortunately, they will come back.

As they should, if they can get their control figured out. Both are still at the top of the Pirates in stuff+

 

[Coastal Kev]

With the toxic two (Bednar and Holderman) out of the picture, the bullpen has stabilized. Unfortunately, they will come back.

Holderman has filthy stuff... I would bet he'll eventually be a raving success.