Pirates/MLB
Pittsburgh Pirates
CARDINALS MAGIC NUMBER IS TWO
The Pittsburgh Pirates entered Monday night’s game with the St. Louis Cardinals having the most errors in the National League with 117.
They are now tied with Oakland Athletics for the most in the Majors with 118.
The 118th error of the season was a costly one.
With one out in the ninth inning of a 0-0 game, John Jay hit a weak single to center off Mark Melancon that should have put runners at first and third but it didn’t play out like that.
Gregory Polanco coming in to make the routine play had his eye on the base runner Matt Carpenter who was rounding second, and Polanco over-ran the ball then Andrew McCutchen bobbled the ball after it got past Polanco as it looked like a scene from a t-ball game.
Carpenter would go from first to home to score the first run of the game. Moments later Mark Reynolds who is 5-10 all-time vs Mark Melancon delivered a huge 2-run homer off Melancon.
The Pirates stranded 16 runners, were 0-12 with runners in scoring position and walked 10 times without scoring. They left the bases loaded in four different innings, second, third, sixth and seventh innings. St. Louis came up with clutch plays and the Pirates shot themselves in the foot multiple times.
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I like Clint Hurdle…. I do! I think he was the perfect motivator for the young guys as they transitioned. It would be moronic to question a managers job after he guided his team to 95+ wins. But at what point does management need to sit him down and tell him that the lineup he puts out from late August through the end of the season needs to be his best…. Every single night. I’m all for getting the back ups time….. In April-mid August. But after that, IF you find yourself in a pennant race again! You resemble a… Read more »
why am i the only one who thinks harrison is a better option in RF for the wild card game than polanco? people in the media world act like polanco is incredible. i understand his potential, but he makes stupid plays on the bases, he’s blown a few games in the 9th this season with stupid errors, he only has 9 homers and is batting in the .250’s. he’s okay, but harrison in RF, ramirez at 3B and fat boy at 1st gives the pirates a better chance.
Clutch Plays? Pop outs, strike outs AND A RUN PRODUCING ERRORS ARE NOT CLUTCH PLAYS. They are chokes. Now put it behind and get them tonight.
By the way…. I love em too Clint! To bad we’re gonna have to suffer for a one and done because they deserve SO…..MUCH…..BETTER!!! But alas….. You made sure you played every body in September games that mattered….just like little league
No Clint!! It wasn’t that you couldn’t find a play, it’s that you’ve had your head up your asses for two straight games! Way to represent a winner, go 18 consecutive scoreless innings. Maybe the next guy to score, we should shower him in tinker tape!! Pathetic!!! Well…….. Warm up the golf clubs…….because as unfair as it is, your facing Arrieta in 9 days and your not gonna win. Sorry! Maybe next time when you creep to two games back in early September…. Don’t play 3 back ups and two guys out of position in the same game. Maybe don’t… Read more »
Haven’t watched the Pirates in 25 years and now I remember why. Same losers, different generation.
2ND best record IN ALL OF BASEBALL but yeah they are losers…..Im assuming your education level isnt that high…and if it is I blame the college or University for giving such a moron a degree
Losers don’t win when it matters. Could seriously Care less about the regular season, especially regular season baseball. No one remembered the great Pirates 1990-1992 regular seasons.
So a loss in the regular season makes you think its the same old pirates……even though you dont believe the regular seasons games are important to win?…..So your judging this team on THE REGULAR SEASON you know the thing you could care less about?….shouldnt you reserve your opinion until the playoffs?….which they have made already.