[unable to retrieve full-text content]MILWAUKEE – Pittsburgh won 15 more games than last season. It’s a start for a franchise that’s dealt with 19 consecutive losing years. The Pirates fell behind early Wednesday night and lost 7-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers to finish at 72-90.
Gotta run!.
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(Sports Network) – Lefty Travis Wood can continue a recent string of scoreless
outings tonight when the Cincinnati Reds visit the Pittsburgh Pirates for the
middle contest of three weekend games at PNC Park.
A 24-year-old, Wood had appeared in five consecutive games — four relief
outings and one start — since last allowing a run during a 5-3 loss to the
New York Yankees on June 20 in Cincinnati.
He’s 1-0 in his outings since, picking up the win after two-thirds of an
inning of relief against the Pirates during Cincinnati’s 11-8 victory in
Pittsburgh on Aug. 19.
Overall, he’s pitched 10 consecutive shutout innings while allowing five hits
and striking out nine batters.
He’s 2-1 lifetime against the Pirates with a 4.91 earned run average in 11
innings.
In Friday’s opener, pinch-hitter Ryan Ludwick posted the game-winning hit in
the bottom of the ninth inning, sending the Pirates to a 4-3 win.
Pinch-hitter Jason Jaramillo ripped a double to left with one out off Reds
reliever Bill Bray (5-3) before Ludwick came through with the walk-off single
to center against Nick Masset, allowing pinch-runner Chase d’Arnaud to easily
score from second.
Garrett Jones hit a two-run homer and Andrew McCutchen finished with two hits
and a run scored for the Pirates, who bounced back after a 2-5 road trip.
Joel Hanrahan (1-4) earned the win despite plunking Todd Frazier to force in
the tying run in the top half of the frame.
“I didn’t have all my good stuff, but I tried to find a way to make it work,”
Hanrahan said. “I think I hit my first guy of the year. This game’s funny.”
Joey Votto picked up an RBI double, while Frazier and Paul Janish had two hits
apiece for the Reds, who had their two-game winning streak snapped.
The Pirates start 26-year-old righty Brad Lincoln, who appears for the second
time in his career against the Reds.
Lincoln took a no-decision in the initial outing, tossing two-thirds of an
inning in relief in the aforementioned 11-8 game in which Wood got the
victory.
He’s made six starts since and is 1-3 while allowing 17 runs in 31 innings.
Lincoln is 0-2 in seven home appearances this season.
Pittsburgh is 9-4 versus the Reds this season.
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 The Pittsburgh Pirates have been so bad in the second half of this season that you almost just want to leave them alone in their misery during the final hours of their 19th straight losing campaign.
But then you see this oh-so-representative (and awesome) picture of manager Clint Hurdle in the dugout.
You also learn that they have been historically bad since reaching the dizzying heights of first place in July.
All-time bad, in fact.
So, really, what other choice do you have but to pause, look at the wreck and post that picture? None, I’m afraid.
According to columnist Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the 2011 Bucs are now the not-so-proud victims of baseball’s greatest plunge from first place. Citing the research of Elias, Kovacevic notes that no other team in history has put together a worse record — 16-40 — after leading their division at the 100-game marker.
What’s worse, the next-closest free fallers aren’t actually close at all.
From the T-R:
The Pirates’ 16-40 record down the stretch makes for a .286 winning percentage. Next-worst was the 1977 Chicago Cubs, who went 60-40 to lead their division through 100 games, then went 21-41 for a .339 winning percentage.
These Pirates went from delight to disgrace before Regis Philbin could break out one chorus of “We Are Family.”
Of course, because it’s the Pirates, there’s a particularly cruel twist: Game No. 101 was the infamous 19-inning affair in Atlanta that ended with umpire Jerry Meals making one of the worst calls in history. Meals is a Bartmanesque anti-hero in this case — Pittsburgh would have likely plummeted without his atrocity — but that probably doesn’t make it any easier for Pirates fans to digest.
So, as we enter the final six games of the season, there’s a chance they could fumble further than the Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins to end up as the second-worst team in the National League. But even if they don’t, the Pirates will be heading into an offseason where they’ll have to reconcile the great successes of the first half and individual growth with the complete business-as-usual suckitude of the second.
As Kovacevic notes, that’s not going to be easy.
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