Series Thread: Pirates @ Padres

[steelparrot]

Burnett Kennedy
Liriano Sheilds
Morton Ross
Locke Despainge

Start of a 10 game road trip, hopefully we can keep rolling

 

[thedddd]

Liking the matchups for this series. Only if it was Cole's turn in the rotation against Despainge, that would be totally unfair for the Buccos.

 

[thedddd]

Well Kang with another HR. The way he is hitting right now he needs to play every day.

 

[steelparrot]

A homerun derby is breaking out

 

[Darkstone42]

Defense has not been great tonight. Good thing the bats have shown up.

That play with Walker throwing to an Alvarez who was looking at Kang was very odd. They need to talk there, especially after Walker looked toward Kang while Pedro was breaking back to the bag.

AJ limited the damage, though.

 

[thedddd]

^ Yeah that looked awful. Good thing there was a pitcher like AJ out there that stopped it from getting worse.

 

[thedddd]

Nice answer with the Harrison double.

 

[thedddd]

Now 1st and 3rd for McCutchen.

 

[thedddd]

Nice! Second Double tonight.

 

[Darkstone42]

And now Cutch with a two-bagger.

The bats are really clicking.

 

[thedddd]

Well that is an interesting way to score two more.

 

[Darkstone42]

Marte deserved two RBIs. That ball was smoked. He won't get them, but at least we got the runs.

 

[Darkstone42]

Burnett picked a good night to have a bit of an off-day.

 

[thedddd]

^ True and I hope the bullpen holds up.

 

[thedddd]

Another good start to the game, lets hope it keeps up.

 

[HammerDown]

If just one of Norris' four SO we're a hit, the Padres would be ahead.

Masterful K there by Caminero. Got ahead 0-2 then blew him away with the high cheese.

 

[thedddd]

Well the concerns from game one game true in game where the bullpen blew it.

 

[Darkstone42]

16 groundball outs for Morton, no flyouts. Vintage Ground Chuck right there.

 

[Darkstone42]

If Morton keeps this up (I mean keeping the ball on the ground at an absurd rate, not pitching sub-2 ERA ball), our rotation is legitimately 4 deep. And it's not completely beyond the realm of reason that one of Locke, Worley, or the AAA depth guys could step into that 5th spot and fill it nicely, either.

 

[Darkstone42]

Locke is a problem. We have to have a better option.