2015 Pittsburgh Pirates Thread

[Admin]

Random but what kind of watch is Hurdle wearing?

[ejd43]

It's over.

[Zarovich]

It's over.

No defending that. Lineup still is horrible. Better put Ramirez and Alvarez in now and hope they can hit some homeruns.

[PenGator88]

Not this again.

[ejd43]

It's over.

No defending that. Lineup still is horrible. Better put Ramirez and Alvarez in now and hope they can hit some homeruns.

Which is who should have been in the line up from inning one.

[Zarovich]

I would have started both and batted Pedro second and Ramirez fourth. More at bats.

[Lt. Dish]

I read today that Ramirez has a groin strain and can't throw from a stretch, and that's why he's not in.

[ejd43]

I would have started both and batted Pedro second and Ramirez fourth. More at bats.

I'd go with this
1. Polonco
2.marte
3. Cutch
4.a-ram
5.walker
6.pedro
7.cervelli
8.mercer
9.cole


Sigh... This feels like a penguins playoff game.

[PenGator88]

He's mowing them down now.

[ejd43]

I read today that Ramirez has a groin strain and can't throw from a stretch, and that's why he's not in.

Makes sense. Did not hear that. Thank you for clearing that up.

[PenGator88]

Did anybody get that ball out of the Allegheny?

[Zarovich]

I read today that Ramirez has a groin strain and can't throw from a stretch, and that's why he's not in.

He had that a few weeks ago as well. May have flared up again. Another reason Pedro should have started.

[Zarovich]

I would have started both and batted Pedro second and Ramirez fourth. More at bats.

I'd go with this
1. Polonco
2.marte
3. Cutch
4.a-ram
5.walker
6.pedro
7.cervelli
8.mercer
9.cole


Sigh... This feels like a penguins playoff game.

Ya, with Iginla on the left wing!!! Lol

[Lt. Dish]

I can't stand the thought that 6 months and 162 games is undone in a half hour-45 minutes.

[Humperdink]

Arrieta is the baseball version of running into a hot goaltender.

Boy this one game playoff thingy is beginning to suck.

[Zarovich]

Arrieta who? Fowler is destroying Cole.

[Zarovich]

There is only one thing to do now. Cole has to drill Arrieta and get him off or out of the game. Dirty pool time lol

[Zarovich]

2 called strikes on pitches outside. Give me a computer ump to call balls and strikes.

[Zarovich]

HUGE strikezone lol

[Lt. Dish]

Seems to be a mounting consensus on the webz among Bucs and other non-Cubs fans alike that the home plate ump--how do we say--has different standards for the strike zone for the pitchers. Arrieta doesn't need the charity, blue.

Doesn't in any way excuse the fact that the Bucs have played timid from the first pitch. That Schwarber kid admiring his homer and flipping his bat should've lit a fire under the Bucs. Worked for me, but I'm on my couch drinking.

If we can get 2 here, then maybe we can build on it, send it to an eventual walk-off situation. Comebacks R Us, right? Boy, would that be fun reading tomorrow.

Sigh.

[Zarovich]

Seems to be a mounting consensus on the webz among Bucs and other non-Cubs fans alike that the home plate ump--how do we say--has different standards for the strike zone for the pitchers. Arrieta doesn't need the charity, blue.

Doesn't in any way excuse the fact that the Bucs have played timid from the first pitch. That Schwarber kid admiring his homer and flipping his bat should've lit a fire under the Bucs. Worked for me, but I'm on my couch drinking.

Timid play started when this lineup was announced. Hurdle didn't give this team a chance to go out on their shields.

[Lt. Dish]

Seems to be a mounting consensus on the webz among Bucs and other non-Cubs fans alike that the home plate ump--how do we say--has different standards for the strike zone for the pitchers. Arrieta doesn't need the charity, blue.

Doesn't in any way excuse the fact that the Bucs have played timid from the first pitch. That Schwarber kid admiring his homer and flipping his bat should've lit a fire under the Bucs. Worked for me, but I'm on my couch drinking.

Timid play started when this lineup was announced. Hurdle didn't give this team a chance to go out on their shields.

I honestly get what he was trying to do. He probably thought the chances of Pedro making a costly error or two to allow Cubs to advance was > than him hitting Arrieta hard. He didn't think he's have to prepare for Cole being shaky, although he was ready with the short hook.

Pedro has been long enough to pay some dividends, no?

Damn, how I'd love to make the Cubs pay for Kang.

[Zarovich]

That lineup said they can't score off Arrieta and hope it is a 0-0 game. No faith in your team to hit.

[Zarovich]

That was it. Needed to score and knock him out there.

[Lt. Dish]

That was it. Needed to score and knock him out there.

Yep. Marte just did the worst possible thing there short of kicking the ump in the nuts and getting ejected. Although I might have been OK with that.