After two long days off thanks to rain, the Pirates finally return to the field tonight against Jonathan Sanchez and the Giants. With Tim Lincecum on Sunday and Stephen Strasburg on Tuesday, the Pirates have a rough stretch of pitching lined up against them in the next few days. Zach Duke gets his Wednesday start pushed back to today, which throws him off of Strasapalooza for Tuesday and likely puts Jeff Karstens in line for the big-ticket start.
It’s likely Karstens because the Pirates sent Brian Burres down to the minors today to make room for Dana Eveland, who’s supposed to start in Monday’s makeup game against the Cubs. The Bucs also announced yesterday that Donnie Veal will undergo Tommy John surgery, which will end his 2010 season. That’s obviously bad news as Veal was making some nice strides in Indy this year considering where he was when we nabbed him in the Rule 5 back in the winter of 08/09. Hopefully he’ll bounce back OK next year, though something tells me this injury may be what converts him to the bullpen for good (which was where he was likely to end up anways, probably, but it’s still disappointing given that he was a lot better this year than last year).
Anyways, first pitch tonght 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 so far and now’s as good a time as any to join in.
Not much to say here. Obviously the standings won’t change today since Wednesday’s game was rained out. Here they are again:
- Don_Madden: 32
- North Shore Ryan: 21
- dafletch, ndbrian, brian2: 19
- Woodward: 18
- Carnegie Chip: 16
- hisjazziness: 15
- Wizard of Woz: 14
- hwtrine68, pdiddy0020: 13
- whygavs, J. Latrobe: 11
- Garrett122, michaelbro8 10
- UtesFan890, bwzimmerman: 8
- apk, pdiddy002: 7
- Nate, TuckerD13, dboz, edgeman2k: 6
- TheHulk, Mornacale: 5
- appeal2smail: 4
- TomKaikis, Joek, tylerrcurtis, TheJewelryMan!, fruitbat, Cecilio_Guante, WallyR, Dave_Mesing: 3
- PatrickHealy, MattB, SteelCity66, BadAndy, spazaru, Adam_Reynolds, Mr. Ando, WallyR, cocktailsfor2: 2
- FSU Bucs, Christy, appeal2smail, SeanGentile, shsteimer, TheHulk, Traco Bucco, Tate, Neopold, IndianaJohns04, wk kortas, jac8, Mr. Ando, DoctorGeeves, CoryR: 1
- Everyone else: 0
- NSN, Mosca, danatural, Teflon, John Sparrow, matt w, Fielding Yost: -1
- PHook4000: -3
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