First things first: I’ve been hit in the head with a line drive before, and it’s a terrifying thing. It was 14 years ago and honestly, I still flinch in softball games when balls are hit right at me. As much as a game like tonight’s makes me want to lament whatever forces of the universe have driven the Pirates’ pitching staff to the state it’s currently in after Chris Jakubauskas was knocked out of tonight’s game after just 12 pitches, what I really hope is that Jakubauskas is OK. It’s a cliche, but at the end of the day it’s just baseball and the players are just people like the rest of us.
As for everything, all you really need to know is that two days after being a big part of Thursday’s 20-0 embarrassment, Dan McCutchen had to take the mount for an inning tonight and he’s still expected to start again on Tuesday. This baseball team is an honest to god mess right now after just 17 games. I really hate to think what things are going to look like once the season starts to take it’s toll.
PS – Seriously, Ronny Cedeno? You sit on the bench and watch Matt Lindstrom load the bases with his first walk of the season, see that he’s already stretched to 19 pitches, know he threw last night, and just hack away at the first pitch? Really? That was frustrating.
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