Going into the 2008 MLB Draft, Pirates’ fans almost expected to be disappointed. After all, there was no way Neal Huntington and Frank Coonelly could live up to the expectations thrust upon them by a fanbase that wanted to see fifteen years of mistakes fixed in one draft, right? I hate to break [...]
On Tuesday, the Pirates were shut out for the first time this season, a somewhat remarkable feat for the last National League team to be shut out this season. Old nemesis Wandy Rodriguez, who always seems to pitch well against Pittsburgh, beat Phil Dumatrait who had a another solid start, giving up two runs over [...]
The best and the worst of the Pirates’ starters have been on display in St. Louis this weekend as Paul Maholm had a solid outing on Saturday night en route to a 14-4 Pirate win while Ian Snell had a disastrous one on Sunday en route to a 7-4 Pirates’ loss. The Pirates’ starters [...]
The Pirates’ starting pitching has been ridiculously inconsistent thus far this season, but in the past two games, one against Cincinnati and one against St. Louis, they managed to squeeze two quality starts out of their rotation in a row, kind of an amazing accomplishment. Unfortunately, only one of the games was a victory, [...]
Ian Snell was supposed to be the cornerstone of the Pirates’ rotation this year. Snell had his sixth bad start out of his last seven and could be in for a rocky year, as Adam Dunn and Jay Bruce came together to beat up the Pirates and Snell, 9-6, en route to dropping the Pirates [...]
The Cubs’ dominance of the Pirates has been well-documented, so when they took a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning on Saturday night and had the Pirates down to the last out on Sunday, it appeared as if that dominance was going to continue. Both games, however, actually ended on Jason Bay hits and [...]
