Pirates Morning Report: Mariners Take Lead, Brewers Gone

The Brewers showed us two things. You cannot win playoff games scoring 1 run per game. Intentional walking Shohei Ohtani may not be a bad idea after all. Ohtani almost single handily beat the Brewers last night. He hit 3 home runs, pitched 6 innings striking out 10 Brewers while allowing just 2 hits. Not taking anything away from the Dodgers starters, the Brewers pretty much showed they can’t hit. They could not even really dent a pretty pathetic Dodger bullpen. The highest scoring team in baseball scored 4 runs in 4 games. The Mariners meanwhile broke the trend in this series by winning a game at home. Eugenio Suarez was the hero hitting 2 home runs including the winning grand slam in the bottom of the 8th for the 6-2 win. This game boiled down to missed opportunities for the Blue Jays. From the 3rd through the 6th inning the Blue Jays got the lead off batter on. Three of those times the lead off hit was a double. Once they had the bases loaded and nobody out and failed to score. In fact in 2 at bats they failed to hit the ball over 3 feet. In those 4 innings they were only able to score 2 runs. There was chances to score much more. The series heads back to Toronto tomorrow night. After losing the first two games at home I am sure the Blue Jays are thrilled that they are still alive and heading home to play baseball. The Brewers are heading home to ponder what might have been. The only hope for all of us who do not want to see the Dodgers repeat as World Series champions is that they won’t be playing ball for 6 days thanks to MLB stupidity. We will see if the ALCS will give us the 6th elimination game of this post season.