Pittsburgh vs. Washington, 6 June 2007

by Charlie Wilmoth on Jun 6, 2007 2:24 PM EDT in News

7:05 PM, FSNP, WPGB

Zach Duke (2-6, 5.73) vs. Micah Bowie (2-2, 4.11).

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First inning

Now it might be easy to complain about the wasted opportunity. But with those two half-innings, more often than not you'll end up trailing.

Now for Feuerbach's sake, I swore not to follow a team with RaJai Davis leading off.

not addicted to alcohol, tobacco or fantasy baseball

by Bukanier on Jun 6, 2007 7:34 PM EDT reply actions

Nady

What now do we do that Nady appeared to tweak his hamstring rounding third?

by bryanzane on Jun 6, 2007 7:37 PM EDT reply actions

Bench

Hope we don't need any offense from the bench!! There's not much left there.

Guess Doumit is going to be in RF or catching every game for a few days. Heaven forbid, we will have Jose Castillo as a DH this weekend if Nady can't go, or half of the McDuffy combo. Any one of those possibilities is not exactly going to make Roger Clemens nervous.

by Thunder on Jun 6, 2007 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Littlefield Q+A

After reading the Q+A column with Littlefield on pirates.com, I've come to the conclusion that what we have is what we will see for the rest of the year.

In the short list of 6 questions, his thought processes boggle my mind. How can he hold on to his job?? It seems like he has already run up the white flag on 2007, and is worried about 3 years from now.

by Thunder on Jun 6, 2007 8:19 PM EDT reply actions

Uhhhhh

Pittsburgh Pirates: 0 for 15

Ryan Doumit: 2 for 2

by bryanzane on Jun 6, 2007 8:31 PM EDT reply actions

Then Again...

...we ARE facing perennial Cy Young candidate Micah Bowie.

by bryanzane on Jun 6, 2007 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions

And...

we have one of this year's Cy Yuck candidates, Zack Duke, pitching for us. Somehow, we're only down 2-1 for now. Oops, never mind, it's 5-1 now.

C'mon Littlefield, call up Bullington. He can't do any worse. He's got more wins at AAA than our 3-4-5 starters combined do in Pittsburgh.

by Thunder on Jun 6, 2007 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Duke

Is it me, or does it just look like Duke is not finishing his pitches at all? His left leg just sort of falls to a set defensive position...

by bryanzane on Jun 6, 2007 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Time for Duke

to see if he can straighten things out in AAA.

by patthatt on Jun 6, 2007 8:50 PM EDT reply actions

but

what about Jack Wilson!? He's horrible! How many times have we seen that? Every game!?

why is he in the majors? can't hit, can't field...what is his talent? Being the worst professional athlete to NOT EARN his 5 million a year?

by Johnny Strange on Jun 6, 2007 8:55 PM EDT reply actions

LaRoche

AAAAAAAAAAH! Regardless of the call, that's the best you can do? A tapper in front of home plate, and barely that? Against a nondescript journeyman righty? LaRoche needs to pick it up, way up.

by azibuck on Jun 6, 2007 9:02 PM EDT reply actions

Like that

Was that so hard?

by azibuck on Jun 6, 2007 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions

2007 Pirates

I live in Lancaster, so I don't get to see the Bucs all that often on TV. Since they're playing the Nationals and I'm in their market, this game is actually being televised. They suck.

by bryanzane on Jun 6, 2007 9:02 PM EDT reply actions

SS

Put Bixler on the plane with Bullington. If Nutting and Littlefield have no intent on making this year's team better through trades, etc., then bring up the guys from Indy that are performing, and get rid of the ones here that aren't.

by Thunder on Jun 6, 2007 9:04 PM EDT reply actions

PH

This is a perfect example of our problems. The 5 guys on the bench starting the game (including Paulino), average less than .230 as a group. And who gets the call, Kelly, the worst of the group. Does management think this is the NBA, where if you tank a season, you get a superstar in the draft?

by Thunder on Jun 6, 2007 9:14 PM EDT reply actions

This

Is the slowest developing train wreck I've ever seen.

by matskralc on Jun 6, 2007 10:10 PM EDT reply actions

Have we

done that yet this year? I thought we'd pretty much covered all the possibilities already this season.

by matskralc on Jun 6, 2007 10:12 PM EDT reply actions

A bad movie

We've seen this movie before during this season. Other team builds a big lead off one of our 'young' starters, we come back to make it close, and the bullpen gives it away at the end. Can we keep Marte and Capps, and fire the rest of the bullpen and bench?

by Thunder on Jun 6, 2007 10:18 PM EDT reply actions