Tag: Crushed

Final Score: Pirates 1 Brewers 7

Why The Pirates Lost: They were playing a team that knows how to play baseball. The Brewers were not playing that good of baseball during the first month of the season. They were making baserunning blunders. They were making errors. They were missing cutoff men. They were not hitting well. Manager Pat Murphy did the unthinkable. At least it’s the unthinkable in the Pirate organization. He started benching players. They eventually got back in the lineup. The Brewers were 16-16 going into May 1st. Since then, they have won 58 games and lost just 18. All the Pirate management team does is make excuses for its players. This game was over before it started. After 3 innings the score was 5-1. Andrew Heaney had another awful outing. He went 4 innings and threw 90 pitches. He gave up 6 runs on 9 hits including 2 more home runs. He walked 2 and struck out 3. I am sure he will remain in the rotation. It would not seem possible, but the Pirate batters were worse. The last 21 batters for the Pirates had 2 walks and no hits. One of the walks was erased on a double play. The AAA boys went 1 for 5 with a walk. Jared Triolo has brought his average up almost 30 points to .180. He will never be sent down. The Brewers will be showing the Pirates how baseball should be played during this series. It probably won’t sink in.

Key Moments Of The Game: It starts with the lineup card. At this point in this miserable season, why not let Cruz and Horwitz face left-handed pitching? They can’t do any worse than what’s out there. The leadoff homer by Brice Turang set the tone for the game. The Pirates did tie the game 1-1 when Joey Bart hit his 1st home run since the Reagan administration. It only took Heaney 5 pitches to break the tie. He threw Christian Yelich a slow curve right down the middle. He hit it 395 feet for a home run. The Brewers got 4 singles that produced 3 more runs, thanks to the Pirates. They missed cutoff men. Jared Triolo did a nice head turn trying to short hop a ball thrown by Joey Bart. This scored the 4th run of the inning. I guess that is what they teach you in AAA ball. This made the score 5-1, and you knew that this game was over. The Brewers easily got their 10th win in a row.

Next Game: Tonight, Brewers in Milwaukee. The only game of this road trip worth watching. Paul Skenes will start tonight with the Pirates. We may see three of the AAA boys tonight. Meanwhile, potential MLB players rot in AAA. It is hard to believe, but this season is spiraling downward from a point that began as rock bottom. Only in Pittsburgh.