This series should have been a split at worst, but poor starting pitching and terrible middle relief once again haunted the team. The Pirates cannot seem to get out of their own way right now and it’s getting increasingly harder to watch.
The Pirates currently find themselves at five games under .500 and that is not ideal, but I truly do not believe all hope is lost. Baseball is, of course, a long season and while the Pirates have played poorly, they are equally capable of turning things around.
The Pirates must do something with the pitching because they cannot keep marching out the same players. If they do, it won’t matter how healthy the offense gets because they will constantly find themselves having to play catch up.
Baseball is 162 games, and that makes it the least forgiving sport when a team is on a bad streak. Hockey and basketball will usually give you multiple off days to bust out of a funk. Football is obviously a weekly sport. Baseball is basically every day and that makes escaping the muck of a losing streak a unique challenge.
The upcoming schedule doesn’t get any easier for the Pirates with the Los Angeles Dodgers coming to town for a three-game series. The Pirates need to step up and start playing better baseball.
Game one of Dodgers-Pirates features Nick Tepesch making his first big league start since 2014 taking on Jameson Taillon. First pitch is at 7:05pm.
Series Result: Pirates lose 3-1
2016 win/loss record: 34-39
2016 series record: 10-12-1
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