Chad Kuhl’s start at Kansas City last year may have been the worst game the Pirates played in 2020, and there was some strong competition for that title. Kuhl couldn’t find the strike zone at all, and when he did his defense only compounded issues by botching plays in the field. He gave up 4 […]
Instead of spending my Sunday afternoon on the couch, watching two of the worst teams in the National League square off on a dreary day in Pittsburgh, I decided to head down to Bradenton to watch the franchise’s low-A affiliate, the Marauders. It ended up being a good call, as the Pirates blew the game […]
I joked in my recap for game one of Saturday’s doubleheader that I chose to split the recap into two parts because my thoughts on Mitch Keller tend to run long. That said, I’m going to try and keep it brief. Keller’s stat line looked great on Saturday: like his teammate JT Brubaker, he shut […]
My modus operandi when writing about the 7-inning doubleheaders has been to do one post for both games, but Mitch Keller is pitching tonight and he’s always good for a few hundred words. Besides, I’m not really doing anything else on this Saturday afternoon. Coming into this dreary Memorial Day weekend, the Pirates had lost […]
The Pirates are not a good team, that much should be clear after the past few weeks of baseball. But at the very least we’ve been able to suffer in silence, quietly dropping game after game while going for the most part unnoticed (the 20-1 Braves game being the exception). Alas, on Thursday afternoon the […]
Well that sucked. I really thought the Penguins could come back if they could just get a win on Wednesday night. Their loss to the Islanders in Game 5 was a real crusher, but I took comfort in the fact that the Pens outplayed them for much of the night. Jarry didn’t have a good […]
As bad as the Pirates have played this year — and they are in the midst of a pretty goddamn bad stretch right now — they’ve fared pretty well against the Chicago Cubs. It sucks getting beat by any team, but I wasn’t alive in 1992, so watching the Bucs get their brakes beaten off […]
The minor leagues are back, baby, and providing a much-needed distraction from what has been an ugly month of baseball from the parent club. Earlier this month, I wrote a preview of each of the Pirates’ four minor league squads and named a few players on each club I’d be checking in on. Now that […]
The Pirates did a pretty good impression of a respectable ballclub for the first month of the season, but over the past few weeks it has been made brutally clear how far this team is from being merely mediocre, let alone decent. Sure, there have been injuries — Ke’Bryan Hayes is the biggest, followed by […]
The Mitch Keller roller coaster kept on rolling on Saturday afternoon, although the drop from his last start wasn’t as steep. It certainly wasn’t a good start — Keller gave up 5 runs in 5 innings, which will raise his already lofty ERA — but this was not a complete bomb, like his effort against […]
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