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417F7A72617979725277607324160 wrote: Big hit by Bryan Reynolds. He continues to impress along with many others in this lineup. This team battles hard so far every game and are very fun to watch in their own way.
Raise It!! Bucs take the series IN MILWAUKEE.


For me as a Pirates fan, those are sweet words.

You gotta love how this team battled back from that 1-6 start and that awful series in Cincinnati. Things were really looking bleak then and I was thinking we might be looking at a 2-12 or 3-11 start or something like that. This team has now won 6 of 9 games since and have won and split their last 3 series and are doing all of this without their best player in Ke’Bryan Hayes who should be back sometime this week. For this team to be 7-9 right now and right around .500 and hanging around in this mediocre division with the starting pitching it has and with Hayes being out the last 2 weeks is truly remarkable. I definitely didn’t see it coming.

17302125203D02362120203D440 wrote: You gotta love how this team battled back from that 1-6 start and that awful series in Cincinnati. Things were really looking bleak then and I was thinking we might be looking at a 2-12 or 3-11 start or something like that. This team has now won 6 of 9 games since and have won and split their last 3 series and are doing all of this without their best player in Ke’Bryan Hayes who should be back sometime this week. For this team to be 7-9 right now and right around .500 and hanging around in this mediocre division with the starting pitching it has and with Hayes being out the last 2 weeks is truly remarkable. I definitely didn’t see it coming.
Yes, very surprising that they've gone 6-3 since the 1-6 start with very little starting pitching. If Shelton has enough sense (which is highly debatable) to keep Evans in the lineup when Hayes comes back they can eliminate either Polanco or the CFer bats from every game.

0A272A3B3C2D3A7A79480 wrote: You gotta love how this team battled back from that 1-6 start and that awful series in Cincinnati. Things were really looking bleak then and I was thinking we might be looking at a 2-12 or 3-11 start or something like that. This team has now won 6 of 9 games since and have won and split their last 3 series and are doing all of this without their best player in Ke’Bryan Hayes who should be back sometime this week. For this team to be 7-9 right now and right around .500 and hanging around in this mediocre division with the starting pitching it has and with Hayes being out the last 2 weeks is truly remarkable. I definitely didn’t see it coming.
Yes, very surprising that they've gone 6-3 since the 1-6 start with very little starting pitching. If Shelton has enough sense (which is highly debatable) to keep Evans in the lineup when Hayes comes back they can eliminate either Polanco or the CFer bats from every game.


I keep asking myself why Polanco continues to play. He doesn't help the team win, nor does he play well enough to be an attractive trade piece for another team. At the same time, he prevents another player from getting valuable experience. There's literally no upside to playing him.

6B464B5A5D4C5B1B18290 wrote: You gotta love how this team battled back from that 1-6 start and that awful series in Cincinnati. Things were really looking bleak then and I was thinking we might be looking at a 2-12 or 3-11 start or something like that. This team has now won 6 of 9 games since and have won and split their last 3 series and are doing all of this without their best player in Ke’Bryan Hayes who should be back sometime this week. For this team to be 7-9 right now and right around .500 and hanging around in this mediocre division with the starting pitching it has and with Hayes being out the last 2 weeks is truly remarkable. I definitely didn’t see it coming.
Yes, very surprising that they've gone 6-3 since the 1-6 start with very little starting pitching. If Shelton has enough sense (which is highly debatable) to keep Evans in the lineup when Hayes comes back they can eliminate either Polanco or the CFer bats from every game.
I realize that the Brewers were without Yelich, Lorenzo Cain and Kolton Wong, but it's still refreshing to beat the Brew Crew.

36080D05160E0E052500170453610 wrote: You gotta love how this team battled back from that 1-6 start and that awful series in Cincinnati. Things were really looking bleak then and I was thinking we might be looking at a 2-12 or 3-11 start or something like that. This team has now won 6 of 9 games since and have won and split their last 3 series and are doing all of this without their best player in Ke’Bryan Hayes who should be back sometime this week. For this team to be 7-9 right now and right around .500 and hanging around in this mediocre division with the starting pitching it has and with Hayes being out the last 2 weeks is truly remarkable. I definitely didn’t see it coming.
Yes, very surprising that they've gone 6-3 since the 1-6 start with very little starting pitching. If Shelton has enough sense (which is highly debatable) to keep Evans in the lineup when Hayes comes back they can eliminate either Polanco or the CFer bats from every game.
I realize that the Brewers were without Yelich, Lorenzo Cain and Kolton Wong, but it's still refreshing to beat the Brew Crew.
I am so happy about beating them at Miller Park, that I posted it twice (by accident)

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I am so happy about beating them at Miller Park, that I posted it twice (by accident)
I deleted the duplicate.

200D00111607105053620 wrote: You gotta love how this team battled back from that 1-6 start and that awful series in Cincinnati. Things were really looking bleak then and I was thinking we might be looking at a 2-12 or 3-11 start or something like that. This team has now won 6 of 9 games since and have won and split their last 3 series and are doing all of this without their best player in Ke’Bryan Hayes who should be back sometime this week. For this team to be 7-9 right now and right around .500 and hanging around in this mediocre division with the starting pitching it has and with Hayes being out the last 2 weeks is truly remarkable. I definitely didn’t see it coming.
Yes, very surprising that they've gone 6-3 since the 1-6 start with very little starting pitching. If Shelton has enough sense (which is highly debatable) to keep Evans in the lineup when Hayes comes back they can eliminate either Polanco or the CFer bats from every game.
I agree I think Evans will remain in the lineup whenever Hayes returns, but Evans had a tough series in Milwaukee. I hope in Detroit he gets back to the solid hitting. Have him bat in the 5 or sixth spot which would lengthen the lineup.

1A3D2C282D300F3B2C2D2D30490 wrote: Big homer by Moran to give the Bucs the lead; however, Kuhl gives it right back by Garcia hitting a homer to tie it at 3-3. Don’t know how many more starts Chad Kuhl is gonna get but at some point here soon he needs to figure things out and quit getting killed in the 1st inning of games. If this happens in his next 2-3 starts then they need to consider getting him out of the rotation sometime in early May. At some point you gotta figure some things out and stop walking batters and giving up multiple runs in the 1st inning and he just isn’t doing it.




Kuhl really wasn't that horrible in the first innings today or in his 5 innings. He didn't walk anyone in the first inning and only one for the game. His big problem IMO was not putting hitters away when he had 2 strikes on them. Now back to what you call a horrible first inning. He made a bad pitch to the fat guy but the other run was TOTALLY on Fowler . The man goes back on a routine fly ball and it drops in front of him. They need to start calling obvious blunders like that errors instead of base hits. Then he scores on what appears to be a foul ground ball which took a crazy hop off the RF wall which allowed Garcia to score from first. All in all not a bad start .

4740514251000D340 wrote: Big homer by Moran to give the Bucs the lead; however, Kuhl gives it right back by Garcia hitting a homer to tie it at 3-3. Don’t know how many more starts Chad Kuhl is gonna get but at some point here soon he needs to figure things out and quit getting killed in the 1st inning of games. If this happens in his next 2-3 starts then they need to consider getting him out of the rotation sometime in early May. At some point you gotta figure some things out and stop walking batters and giving up multiple runs in the 1st inning and he just isn’t doing it.




Kuhl really wasn't that horrible in the first innings today or in his 5 innings. He didn't walk anyone in the first inning and only one for the game. His big problem IMO was not putting hitters away when he had 2 strikes on them. Now back to what you call a horrible first inning. He made a bad pitch to the fat guy but the other run was TOTALLY on Fowler . The man goes back on a routine fly ball and it drops in front of him. They need to start calling obvious blunders like that errors instead of base hits. Then he scores on what appears to be a foul ground ball which took a crazy hop off the RF wall which allowed Garcia to score from first. All in all not a bad start . 


This is a problem I've noticed for years with Pirate pitchers. It shows lack of command. When they go up 0-2 or 1-2 on a batter they go way out of the strike zone. Obviously, the idea of "wasting" pitches is to throw something that's not a strike but may get a swing and miss or weak contact because the batter is behind in the count and can't afford to take anything close. But Pirate pitchers seem to throw several feet wide or high at those times and batters are not even tempted to offer. A lot of 0-2 and 1-2 counts become 3-2 counts as the pitcher loses the advantage, drives up his pitch count, and has to either throw a hittable pitch or ball 4. Or the pitch that's supposed to be just off the plate goes right into the batter's wheelhouse like BP.