Raise It!!! Season Sweep of Gotham
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Fifth starter goes 5 1/3, 4 hits and a run. Bullpen was perfect. 3 2/3, struck out 7 out of the 11 batters.
Going to the game tomorrow night, Cole vs the Snakes. Arizona is not helpless but they are a losing club on the road and below .500 overall. If you're a contender, you have to make hay.
I gotta say - 9 game stretch against the 3 division leaders, went 7-2. I expected the Pirates to get obliterated and get shut out like 6 out of 9. Glad I was wrong.
Going to the game tomorrow night, Cole vs the Snakes. Arizona is not helpless but they are a losing club on the road and below .500 overall. If you're a contender, you have to make hay.
I gotta say - 9 game stretch against the 3 division leaders, went 7-2. I expected the Pirates to get obliterated and get shut out like 6 out of 9. Glad I was wrong.
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Big deal. Of course we beat the Mets. Of course we beat the Dodgers. They are not in our Division. So what if we're have the 3rd best record in baseball (1/2 game from 2nd best). We're just not very good.
We got our the brooms. Nice job Bucs. Throw in another recruit, life is good.
Good to see Pedro getting hot 'cause when he does, the Bucs go on crazy winning streaks. And with Polanco plunking them too....watch out red birds!
Personally I like the Bob Prince exclamation : "We had Em all the way!"
The Bucs are 4 behind the Birds in the loss column. I keep saying, I think we can win the Division, but whether we do or not, the Pirates will be the National League Champions, not the Cards, Dodgers, Giants, or Cubs. If we don't win the Division, the Wild Card will beat the St. Louis Card.
Big deal. Of course we beat the Mets. Of course we beat the Dodgers. They are not in our Division. So what if we're have the 3rd best record in baseball (1/2 game from 2nd best). We're just not very good.
Bottom line is a win is a win. It would have been sweet to go into St. Louis and sweep the Cards. But the road to the division championship is to end the season with more wins than the Cards.
I wasn't around to raise it as I left the house with the score tied at 1. I've had a hard time putting aside enough time to get to Golf Galaxy and look for new sticks. Brought home new irons and found out that the Bucco's pulled it out for the sweep. Getting Dioubate this morning made this a great day for sports.
Wish I had the new irons last Tuesday when I got on Latrobe CC........
With JHay and Mercer ready to return sometime is week, the Bucs are really deep off the bench right now. They can mix and match a bunch of guys down the stretch. The bullpen is now very deep too. Have to give Huntington credit with some key pickups along the way, without hurting the farm system much. Would love AJ Burnett to come back later in September, but not sure that is a must right now. They'll have their shot against the Cards and Cubbies head to head to possibly win the division and avoid the wildcard route again. Won't be easy, but this team is playing like true gamers right now, winning different ways with different guys contributing every game.
Where would they be if not for the horrendous start to the season? Like last year those early swoons do hurt. Games in April and May do matter, despite what some may think.
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Thanks GLOV. Hey, I've never been bashful with my opinions. Sometimes I have the nuts, sometimes I'm out to lunch. I'll admit when I'm wrong.I'm glad you were wrong too!
And I like you sir!
{Man-crush} LOL!!!
45 games left. On paper that's 9 starts apiece for the rotation. Fine for Cole and Liriano. The other three guys - they have talent and anyone can spin a great start any time out. But you just don't know. Really it's hold on for 2 more weeks. September 1 you'll see Worley and Liz back up to help the bullpen. Getting Harrison back will be huge.
I really think the Pirates are in good shape for winning the division. Like you said we are only four back in the loss column. We are also getting healthy. The depth in the bullpen is amazing. Caminero and Bastardo have really stepped up and it looks like Huntingdon knew what he was doing when he picked up Blanton.
Neal is amazing, particularly when it comes to building bullpens. Bullpens year to year are the most ephemeral element of the game in my judgement. And he continues to have amazing results.
Gotta say, though, that five games back of a team like the Cards at this stage does not put them in what I'd call good shape for a divisional title. Possible, but still not probable.
And let's give a ton of credit for the great pitching(starters and bullpen) to Ray Searage.
Copy that and I believe that Searage is a big part of the selection of those pitchers. Searage tells Neal when he can make them better.
Never in a million years did I think that going 7 - 2 in the last 9 games was a possibility. Dibbs rejoins the bandwagon and the other news is that I will be at the old ball yard tonight to watch Cole stamp out the snakes.
