There is a moment when you’ve been watching a baseball team mired in a slump that pushes you beyond the tipping point of what you can handle as a baseball fan. And that moment is when the Pirates are losing 3-0 to the Reds and when they finally score a run in some way other than a solo home run (they haven’t done this since the third inning on Saturday), and the run is erased because Gregory Polanco was “out of the base path” even though all he did was hit a ball and run to first base, as is his right as a base runner. At that point, you can’t really do much but throw up your hands and turn the game off, because doing anything else will only serve to make you way sadder than a baseball game should make you.
And if you did that, you didn’t miss much of anything. The Pirates have lost five in a row. They just lost a game in which they started Gerrit Cole against Mike Leake, and Joey Votto got thrown out early on. I have no idea how you win a game if you can’t win this one.
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