Doesn’t the score really say it all here? On Tuesday, the Pirates scored six runs against the Cubs, but they gave up 11. On Wednesday, the shut the Cubs’ offense down save a Starlin Castro home run, but the offense couldn’t give any support at all. It’s been that kind of week for the Pirates and without an offday for another seven days, I’m not sure I see an end to this skid in sight.
The Cubs trotted out a mostly right-handed lineup and Charlie Morton responded with one of his best starts of the season. He got groundballls, he got swings and misses, he controlled all of his pitches, he just looked generally great in a way that he really hasn’t since May. I know it was the Cubs and I know it was a lot of right-handed hitters, which plays to his strengths, but it was still really good to see him go out and have a good start. Which made it even more frustrating that it was wasted.
One of the best parts about the Pirates’ season up until about ten days ago from a personal standpoint was that the Pirates weren’t losing long strings of games in a row and I always had interesting things to write about in my recap. For a week now, I’ve had to find different ways to say, “The Pirates lost because they played a crappy gamed. It sucked.” I don’t like this. People keep asking me if the Pirates have found this year’s version of the Grand Canyon and the truth is that while I’m pretty sure that they have, you can never really tell how deep a trench is until you’ve hit the bottom. I hope this is the bottom.
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