Old Time Family Baseball

It’s easy to forget sometimes, but this Pirates team is very bad. When they win, it’s always exciting with end of game heroics. But if they were a good team, they wouldn’t have to win that way. Sometimes they would win by a healthy margin. They also wouldn’t lose games by touchdowns either.

This is also a team that finally gets a couple back to back good starts from their pitchers allowing the bullpen to rest, but instead decide to play fourteen innings before embarking on a trip to the West Coast. Maholm was not sharp, throwing about half his pitches for strikes, but he gutted it out and threw seven.

A point of order: This mini winning streak started when DJ Carrasco pulled his stirrups even higher. Just another piece of evidence in the higher stirrups=better performance camp.