Final Score: Pirates 0 Philllies 6
Why The Pirates Lost: The 6 game winning streak came to an end with a big fat thud yesterday. If you are going to lose you might as well do everything bad and just get it over with. The Pirates offense was so bad, that even though they had 6 hits, they had only one at bat with a runner in scoring position. The offense did manage to strike out only 6 times again. They played lousy defense making 2 errors and not making plays on balls that should have been caught. Marco Gonzales had an ok start giving up 2 runs on 6 hits, walking 1 over 4 and 2/3 innings. The bullpen gave up the rest of the runs although 3 of the 4 runs were unearned. The Pirates stunk out the joint, but we will see which one was the anomaly. The first two wins or yesterday’s lousy performance.
Key Moment Of The Game: It is hard to come up with a really key moment in this game because you felt the Pirates were not going to score if the game went 15 innings. No question giving up the 3 runs on just 2 hits in the top of the 7th to make the score 5-0 sealed the deal. Oneil Cruz dropped the throw from Nick Gonzales on a possible double play ball that opened the floodgates. You really did not think that the Pirates were going to sweep the Phillies, did you.
Next Game: Tonight, the Cardinals in Pittsburgh. The big guns go for the Pirates, Keller and Skenes in the first two games of the series. The Cardinals have won 4 out of the 6 games they have played against the Pirates. The bear minimum here is to take the Cardinals 2 out of 3. We will see how the Pirates respond to a very poor performance. This team needs to keep the momentum going if they are really going to make a run at the playoffs. This all starts by beating the Cardinals 2 or 3 times this week.
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