Series Thread: Reds @ Pirates

[steelparrot]

Our rotation isnt going well now.

 

[Darkstone42]

Cervelli is awesome.

 

[steelparrot]

Nice inning

 

[Darkstone42]

Polanco needs to make an adjustment to his slide. He wasn't off the base for long, but with slow-motion replay that tiny instant can be captured.

I thought he got his hand to the bag quickly enough that Phillips's tag may not have beaten it, but the evidence was deemed sufficient to call Polanco out.

 

[Darkstone42]

Melancon is starting to strike guys out again. The velocity is back. He's back to looking like one of the best closers in baseball again.

 

[Darkstone42]

Leake is getting strike calls that, if Cole had gotten the same call in the first (on a pitch more in the zone, in fact), it would have been a 1-run inning instead of a 4-run inning.

 

[stillmatic32]

I hate Mike Leake

 

[steelparrot]

AJ with a 2rbi single!

 

[Darkstone42]

Cervelli drives in the insurance. 4-2 Bucs heading to the 7th.

 

[Darkstone42]

Arquimedes Euclides Caminero on for the Bucs.

 

[Darkstone42]

Harrison whiffed Votto's single, and he ends up at third. Walker had a chance to get him, but the throw was way off line. An even decent one probably nails Votto.

And now Frazier ties the game.

 

[Darkstone42]

Cervelli set up down and away, but Caminero came up and in and caught a lot of the plate, and even at 99 mph, Frazier's going to tag that.

I don't know why they throw him fastballs. He looks so awkward so often on sliders, and Caminero's is good.

 

[Darkstone42]

At least Bastardo is finding his groove. He's been solid lately. Two strikeouts tonight to settle things down.

 

[Darkstone42]

Walker is a problem.

In other news, we have a lot of hard outs tonight in big spots.

 

[Darkstone42]

Why couldn't McCutchen's have been over the fence? Phillips's got out plenty easy.

This game is awful.

 

[element1286]

Strange the way the Reds have been able to hit the Pirates pitchers. I don't know if it's luck, or they have some info that the rest of the league doesn't have.

Couldn't believe the McCutchen one didn't go out.