Pirates at Phillies, Pirates at Rays

I guess there is a giant storm coming in. Right as the game is about to get underway, they roll out the tarp. I really love it that the storms come each time there is a televised game.

Pirates

Andrew McCutchen CF
Delwyn Young 2B
Garrett Jones RF
Ryan Doumit C
Bobby Crosby SS
Jeff Clement 1B
Brandon Moss LF
Ramón Vázquez 3B
Ross Ohlendorf P

Pitching: Ross Ohlendorf, Octavio Dotel, Brendan Donnelly, Vinnie Chulk, Jeff Karstens

Rays
Jason Bartlett SS
Carl Crawford LF
Ben Zobrist 2B
Carlos Peña 1B
Pat Burrell DH
Hank Blalock 3B
Gabe Kaplar RF
Sean Rodriguez CF
Alvin Colina C

Pitching: Matt Garza

Pirates down 1-2-3 in the first (of course).

goes 0-2 on Crawford but then starts nibbling and walks him

drives it to the wall in right, scores Crawford on a triple.

two run HR to left (of course). 3-0 Rays.

Blalock flies out. End of the first, 3-0 Rays. Doumit, Crosby and Clement due up.

from the Rays announcers about how we didn’t get enough back for Nady, e.g. A sackful of sweet valencia oranges would have been about enough for Nady. “They had some really big pieces…Bay….and…..Nady….”

Bay was a complete unknown until Boston made him a star. He did the same things he always did and became a top outfielder in Boston.

Doumit grounds out. Clement takes a 3-2 pitch out of the park. 3-1 Rays.

but Vázquez flies out

basehit to center.

“perfect bunt single”

of course, it was televised.

FSN Pittsburgh scheduled for 156 games this year. A lot of rainouts might be a good thing. A lot of games with no reason to make up. Of course, no one is predicting the Pirates to only play 120 games.

hey is our starting line-up really this bad, I think their averaging less than 1 run a start. “OLLIE threw the ball well today” john russell . " We wanted him to work on some stuff today,like backing up third and home"joe kerigan