Pirates Morning Report

FINAL SCORE: PIRATES 12 CUBS 1

WHY THE PIRATES WON: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WELCOME TO PITTSBURGH. FOR THE FIRST TIME THE PIRATES CAME AS CLOSE AS THEY HAD COME ALL YEAR IN FIELDING A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM. THE ONLY EXCEPTION WAS CATCHER. THIS HELPED J. T. BRUBAKER GET HIS FIRST WIN OF THE YEAR. THE NEW PLAYERS PERFORMED LIKE THE MAJOR LEAGUE PLAYERS THEY ARE. IT WAS, BY FAR, THE BEST NIGHT OF BASEBALL THIS YEAR. HEATH HEMBREE SHOWED HE HAS NO PROBLEM PROTECTING AN 11 RUN LEAD, CONGRATS TO HEATH. THE ONLY BUMMER WAS THE REALIZATION THAT WE COULD HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS ALL YEAR. LIKE I WROTE YESTERDAY, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

KEY MOMENT OF THE GAME: IN THE BOTTOM OF THIRD WITH THE BASE LOADED ONEIL CRUZ RIPPED, AND I MEAN RIPPED, A LINE DRIVE, RIGHT PAST THE CENTERFIELDER TO SCORE ALL THREE RUNNERS TO PUT THE PIRATES AHEAD 7-0 AND ESSENTIALLY THE GAME WAS OVER. DANIEL (THE TURTLE) VOGELBACH WHO SCORED FROM SECOND ON THE PLAY, IMMEDIATELY HAD TO TAKE OXYGEN, AND THERE WAS SOME QUESTION HE WOULD SURVIVE. IT MAY BE TOO HOT TOMORROW FOR HIM TO PLAY. WHAT A GREAT NIGHT FOR BUCCO BASEBALL.

NEXT GAME: TONIGHT, CUBS IN PITTSBURGH. WELL, THE PIRATE MANAGEMENT TEAM DID ONE HELL OF JOB DEVELOPING ONEIL CRUZ IN THE LAST 2 MONTHS. WHAT A TRANSFORMATION, FROM BARELY A TRIPLE A PLAYER, TO AN OVERNIGHT STAR. YEAH, RIGHT. THE PIRATES WILL HAVE A LOT OF HOUSECLEANING TO DO IN THE COMING WEEKS. THE YU CHANG ERA IN PITTSBURGH IS NOT OVER AFTER ALL. I AM SO HAPPY. REALLY THOUGH, NOTHING COULD RUIN THIS NIGHT, NOT EVEN YU CHANG.