Sorry for the late recap: yesterday was not exactly a great day for me. I’ve been up late most of this week watching baseball, we got somebad science-related news in lab yesterday, and when I got home, my internet was out. I tried a bit to get it working, had no luck, and when the Pirates went into a rain delay I decided to just let the game go and by 10 o’clock, I was asleep.
And I wake up to find out that Kevin Correia and Joe Beimel and Joel Hanrahan and Andrew McCutchen came through at the Pirates did score some runs and get their split in Atlanta and the Pirates are still in second place and only 1 1/2 games behind the Brewers. Which means that through ten games against the Reds, Cardinals, and Braves, the Pirates are 5-5. To hear the Pittsburgh media tell it, the season is falling apart because the team has gone 5-5 against three good teams.
Allow me to take my tongue out of my cheek and just say that last night’s win was a big, big win. A third loss to the Braves, a spot in third place 2 1/2 behind the first-place Brewers, two losses in a row after Tuesday/Wednesday’s marathon, that’s just not the way you want to feed into a weekend series in Philadelphia. If the Pirates get just one game in Philly, they come out on the other side of this 13-game run with a 6-7 record. If they somehow get two, they’ll have gone 7-6.
Trade deadline and three game with the Phillies. Biggest Pirate weekend in a long, long time. I guess I need to get a new wireless router.
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