Final Score: Pirates 8 Guardians 10
Why The Pirates Lost: After just 59 pitches and 4 innings Barry (I Don’t Understand It Either) Falter was removed from the game. Granted he had given up 4 runs on 7 hits, walking 1 and striking out 2. The walk was in the first inning. He had had only 4 balls hit over 100 MPH. The way the bullpen has performed I would have at least thought the Pirates would see if he could get through the 5th and the 6th. Wrong, bullpen mismanagement breath. Right on cue the bullpen arrived in the name of Carmen Mlodzinski, and he promptly game up 4 runs which included 2 home runs. The Pirates had just taken the lead in the top of the inning 6-4 and this put them behind 8-6. The Pirates were able to score to make it 8-7. Domingo German was able to hold the Guardians at bay for 2 innings, so the score remained 8-7 going into the bottom of the 8th. We will get to that pathetic inning in a moment. All of this pitching debacle nullified another good offensive performance by the Pirates. Oneil (What Does Greg Brown Have Against Me) Cruz, Bryan Reynolds, Rowdy (Rawhide) Tellez, and Andrew McCutchen all had big games. They had 2 hits each and drove in all the runs for the Pirates.
The Key Moment Of The Game: As mentioned previously the score was Guardians 8 and the Pirates 7 going into the bottom of the 8th. With their leader thrown out of the game did anybody on the Pirate bench know what the score was? German was starting his third inning of relief. He got the first batter to fly out to Cruz. He gave up singles to the next two batters putting runners on 1st and 3rd. This was time to remove him from the game. Ok, bench coach Don Kelly come take out German. Kelly are you awake. It is a one run game. GET OFF YOUR ASS AND TAKE HIM OUT OF THE DAMN GAME. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU. Don’t answer that, we already know, you are a Pirate coach. You could argue that he should have been taken out after the first hit. They did not take him out of the game, and bim boom bam, 6 pitches later, it was single, single and before you could say fire all the coaching staff, it was 10-7 Guardians. It was 2 runs that they needed as McCutchen hit a home run in the 9th to make the final 10-8. Three out of the last 4 games the Pirates have given up double digit runs and that game they gave up 9. What a great idea to bring the bullpen in at the 5th inning. Could the Pirates just not play anymore.
Next Game: Apparently, they are tonight, Guardians in Cleveland. Luis Ortiz will start tonight but who really cares. This team has completely fallen apart, and the coaching staff is to blame. Nobody should be back next year, but we will see. What a mess.
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