When I went to bed Monday night, the Pirates were well on their way to dropping the first game of this Oakland series and had only managed one hit. For my recap, I was just planning to post a link to the clip from Major League of Bob Uecker, playing the Cleveland Indians’ radio broadcaster, […]
Sunday was the one-month mark for the 2024 season (which began on March 28) and the first full month of baseball will come to an end on Tuesday. For the Pittsburgh Pirates, this past month was a story of two halves. In the first half, the Pirates raced out to a 9-2 start — their […]
Incredibly, the Pirates had not yet been shut out this year coming into Friday night despite the fact that this club seems to find new levels of offensive ineptitude with each passing week. After Friday’s loss, that is no longer the case. I went to bed after the Bucs failed to score in the 7th, […]
Remember earlier this season, when the Pirates rolled to a 9-2 start despite making a litany of mistakes in both the field and on the basepaths? There’s a good chance you do, given all the comments about it I remember seeing online. We were all amazed that the Bucs were able to get off to […]
There is plenty that I could write about the Pirates’ pitching on Wednesday night. I could talk about how Josh Fleming actually looked decent, and whether Derek Shelton pulled him too soon. I could talk about how Luis Ortiz got squeezed at the plate, which led to the winning run being walked home in the […]
Look — the season isn’t even a month old. Bailey Falter has only made five starts, including Tuesday night’s performance. And one month or five starts does not tell us anything definitive about a starting pitcher. At this point a year ago, Vince Velasquez was looking like an uncovered gem, and Johan Oviedo was pitching […]
It is one thing for me to log on here after each loss and write that the Pirates can’t keep playing this badly forever, but it’s another thing to believe it. With each runner stranded in scoring position, with every butchered defensive play, with each called strike 3 looking, it gets increasingly difficult for me […]
I had an idea for a longer article detailing this agonizing week of baseball and the current state of the Pittsburgh Pirates, but I didn’t have the time to write it on Sunday. It was going to be called “The Head and the Heart.” Perhaps if the Pirates struggles continue through the coming week, I’ll […]
One of the joys of sports — and especially in baseball — is that things often do not go as predicted. That’s been a boon for the Pirates this year, as the club was not predicted to be particularly good; most publications picked them to finish last in a weak division. Instead, the Bucs’ hot […]
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