Final Score: Pirates 1 Mets 3
Why The Pirates Lost: The Pirate offense essentially slept through another game. They scored 1 run on five hits, with 4 walks while striking out 13 times. Everybody struck out a least once except for Connor Joe. The offense was 1 for 5 with runners in scoring position and left 7 men on base. The Pirates out hit the Mets 5 to 4, but the Mets got 3 of their hits in one inning when they scored 3 runs in the 7th to take the lead 3-1. Jared Jones pitched a solid 5 innings only giving up 1 hit striking out 7, walking no one on only 59 pitches. The Pirates would not let him pitch any further for whatever reason. Luis Ortiz came on in the 6th and pitched a clean 6th inning but then all hell broke loose in the 7th.
Key Moment Of The Game: The bottom of the 7th Mets came alive and the Pirates helped along the way. After getting one out on a ground ball. Ortiz walked Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso followed with a base hit up the middle to put runners on first and third with one out. Joey Wendle doubled to tie the game, putting runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out. It looked like the Pirates were going to get out of the inning when the next batter hit a weak fly ball to left and Bryan Reynolds threw the ball into the infield instead of the dugout on 25 hops. Then Shelton took Ortiz out and brought in Jose Hernandez, who promptly balked the go ahead run in. He then gave up a double so the Mets would have an insurance run. The way the Pirates have been looking at the plate, you knew that the 2 runs would hold up. The Pirates went 6 up and 6 down in the 8th and 9th, just to show everyone how pathetic they are right now.
Next Game: This afternoon Mets in New York. Barry Falter will take the hill to salvage one game of this series and have a 3-4 road trip. Other than the last game in Philadelphia the Pirates have really lacked any power whatsoever. They are 16th in home runs at the present moment in all of baseball. Let’s hope we can go 3-4 on this road trip. Any time a club is doing this bad at the plate they are usually breaking the basic rule of hitting. Swing at strikes and take balls. The Pirates are doing the opposite, especially not swinging at strikes. Some of these balls are right down the middle and the Pirates batters are just staring at them. Are you watching this coaches, because if your not, the Mets will be getting the brooms out
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