Anyone that’s been a WHYGAVS for a long time probably remembers the Andy Van Slyke quote that used to adorn the top of the blog:
“Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.”
A four-game losing streak that includes that Brewers series and a loss to the Astros is scraping very dangerously close to the canyon.
Chris Jakubauskas gets his first start of the season tonight, not Kevin Hart as initially thought. He wasn’t great in Bradenton but he’s made a couple decent starts with Indianapolis and he’s probably a better option to make this kind of spot-start than Brian Burres is. What a strong recommendation, huh? Jakubauskas goes against Wandy Rodriguez. Wandy hasn’t been great this year, but he is a lefty and lefties have been awfully tough on the Pirates this season.
Remember that because tonight is Saturday, the first pitch tonight is at 7:05. Clemente/Cangelosi is after the jump.
Not sure what this is? Check here and here. Short version: in the comments pick the Pirates you think will be most and least valuable in today’s game. If you haven’t jumped aboard yet, it’s been a lot of fun through so far and now’s as good a time as any to join in.
Catching up from two day’s worth of games, I didn’t award Clemente points for the 20-0 shutout because that just felt wrong. Dan McCutchen got plenty of people points as the Cangelosi pick anyways. Yesterday was very nearly the first test of the “no negative people get Clemente points” rule, but Evan Meek’s scoreless inning put him on the positive side with Garrett Jones. It was also a pretty rare day in that the starting pitcher didn’t qualify on either side; Akinori Iwamura and Delwyn Young were the day’s LVPs.
Here are today’s standings. As usual, let me know if there are any mistakes:
- Woodward: 18
- dafletch: 16
- hwtrine68: 13
- hisjazziness: 12
- brian2: 9
- Wizard of Woz, UtesFan89, whygavs: 7
- North Shore Ryan, Carnegie Chip, bwzimmerman, Don_Madden: 5
- IndianaJohns04, dboz, appeal2smail: 4
- TomKaikis, Joek, tylerrcurtis, TheJewelryMan!: 3
- PatrickHealy, Garrett22, edgeman2k, apk, Tate, MattB, SteelCity66: 2
- FSU Bucs, Christy, appeal2smail, fruitbat, SeanGentile, shsteimer, TheHulk: 1
- Everyone else: 0
- NSN, CoryR, Mosca, wk kortas, danatural, J Latrobe, Teflon: -1
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