Brewers Destroy Bucs, 20-0
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 22, 2010 4:15 PM EDT
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UPDATE: Anyone want to write the lede for the story Jayson Stark is going to write about this series?
WHOA DUDE DEPT.
The Pirates were outscored 36-1 in this series. 36! To 1! No team has been outscored this badly in a three-game set since the 1822 Cleveland Spiders lost by 26 runs in three consecutive games against the immortal Wilmington Quicksteps. Wow! 1822. 26. 36. 18,309. π. 1822! The Andrew Jackson administration. The Battle of Pichincha. The Congress of Verona. The invention of the graham cracker. The graham cracker. Medical leeches! Thirty-six to one! Now you think about that--or did I just blow your mind?
I guess a loss like this is interesting on a purely numerical level, but as a fan of the losing team, it was pretty deadly boring to watch. I have nothing constructive to say about this. Everyone stunk.
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Relax Bucco fans – our only real weakness is pitching, hitting, and defense.
by Designated Hitter on Apr 22, 2010 4:23 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
The baserunning has been sub-par as well.
by Adam Reynolds on Apr 22, 2010 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
This shall henceforth be known as the Earth Day Massacre.
by Aphthakid on Apr 22, 2010 4:34 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
I'm a fan of the "Cluster Fuck of Suck"
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"It's a great day to be a mountaineer, where ever you may be" Tony Caridi
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by WVPiratesfan on Apr 23, 2010 1:19 AM EDT up reply actions
Well that was unsatisfying...
coming on the heels of the CIN sweep…ugh…
So what would the efficacy be of just bringing up the elements of the Marauders that arent Alvarez and Lincoln? Would the losses be any more lopsided?
Was it the Brewers are good or
Did we just decide to implode all at once. How can such a complete meltdown occur. I am flabergassed ……I can not find words
The ball just got bigger and bigger and then BAM it hit me.
Implode.
There isn’t a team in the MLB that’s 35 runs better than another over 3 games. Brewers got hot, Pirates got cold, and this happened to be the time that the 1 in a thousand possible outcomes occurred. That’s it.
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Apr 22, 2010 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions
if the plan is not to score until.....christmas
The ball just got bigger and bigger and then BAM it hit me.
Wow, this series has been disheartening.
Of course, the pain of treatment and recovery is going to be greater since so many years passed before beginning treatment of the wound.
Still, I now hate the Brewers more than ever.
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
I don’t know. I thought that game (or the first five innings, anyway) was pretty boring. But I guess there’s something exciting about a football score, no matter which side of it you’re on.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 22, 2010 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
In fact, I thought this whole series was pretty boring.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 22, 2010 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Unfortunately
I made it to 2 out of 3 games…the only highlight is when Carlos Gomez threw a ball into my section and broke a fan’s nose
Guys
I blame this series on me. I wasn’t around to watch any of the three games. Clearly the reason why they got blasted.
Thanks for manning up there.
Free your ass and your mind will follow.
by cocktailsfor2 on Apr 23, 2010 8:11 AM EDT up reply actions
I’d love to see someone on the current major league team besides McCutchen, Andy LaRoche, Jones, Maholm, and Duke show that they belong (in their current role) on a good team*. It’s still early, though. Not even 10% through. Plenty of time for everyone to right the ship.
*I suppose I could also add Church, Crosby, and Jaramillo as backups, plus Hanrahan/Meek as middle relief.
Thats a good post
If you take Andy off the list, yeah hes a great defender but I don’t think he even has a bat
Worst loss in franchise history
We few, we miserable few, we band of brothers
For he today who watched this horrible game with me
Shall be my brother, tho he be a deranged vendor who screams “LEMONADE!”
And those in Pittsburgh safe in their offices
Shall hold their manhoods cheap
Whenever they behold the weird recycled green caps
Of those of us who witnessed the Massacre of Earth Day!
Haha. I only get to about 1 or 2 games a year and I love that lemonade guy! Good to know he is back for another year! My buddies and I scream LEMONADE at least every other time we see each other!
The sun will rise tomorrow
we got houston coming up. We could very well sweep them. Then all would be right with the world again and the brewers would be a distant memory…until we play them again Tuesday.
Pedro's available.
Just
bucdaddy’s last words were unintelligible as all BucsDugout posters at that point proceeded to douse him with tar and snow him with feathers
So, all jokes aside from 1822, apparently this was the most lopsided 3 game series since the Tigers beat the Twins 45-10 in April 1993.
The Twins went on to win 71 games that year, which I think at this point, we would all gladly take.
36-1 sure seems a lot more pathetic than 45-10, though.
Whoa.
Was the Brewers pitching that spectacular? I mean, were they that worried about giving up a run?
This series makes the game I’m going to on Tuesday night look like it’ll be a real disaster.
Big Ben is to blame for this somehow….
by Designated Hitter on Apr 22, 2010 6:51 PM EDT reply actions
The funny thing about that...
I’m not sure who is the more hated man in town Nutting or Ben…
by IAPiratesFan on Apr 22, 2010 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions
the line that really stands out to me from DK’s game wrap:
“In their eight losses, the Pirates have been outscored, 85-13.”
so when the pirates have lost this year, the AVERAGE score of those losses has been 10.625 to 1.625… the first two games of the brewers series – blowouts though they may be – actually make the average losing margin down to a smaller number… yikes!
by Captain Easychord on Apr 22, 2010 7:21 PM EDT reply actions
What I have been wanting to see this year...
I’ve wanted to see if the Pirates would continue to try to score runs if down by more than 4 runs. So far, the answer has been no. They have displayed no guts or pride whatsoever.
But Ryan Doumit says on the FSN commercials that teams are going to know this year that the Buccos are going to battle teams and won’t lay down for anyone…
When the game is close, they have battled, no doubt. But when the game starts to get away, it really gets away and they do nothing offensively. This is either an amazing bit of chance or can be at least somewhat attributed to a lack of intestinal fortitude and giving up early.
by MarkInDallas on Apr 23, 2010 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Aroldis Chapman is trying to throw more pitches per inning than Yovanni Gallardo did yesterday. 27 in the first inning, but he got two strikeouts and no runs out of it.
The Reds have been trying to get him to work on that.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 22, 2010 7:46 PM EDT up reply actions
AP notes
that No Relation’s ERA after the game is the same as it was before.
Yes, but they are counting his ERA as “godawful” instead of as a number.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 22, 2010 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Wonder how Argenis Diaz
is enjoying life in the big leagues. At least he’s used to seeing AAA pitching.
Y'know what they say...
Any publicity is good publicity right?
“they” can go get fluffed, right up the jacksie.
Chris Jakubauskas, Jeff Karstens...I don't want to see D. Cutch again anytime soon.
And to think he was so superior to Kevin Hart during that all-important Grapefruit League season.
Oh, well, I predict we’ll take two of three from the ’Stros and all will be right with the world again for a few days.
Hart, Morton, Alderson
What baseball god did we piss off?
I'm so glad
the Versus network hockey “analysts” decided to take a jab at the Pirates after the Pens lost their overtime playoff game tonight… It sure isn’t getting old fast… oh wait…
D'oh!
Bad news...
Jakubauskas is up for long relief for the first game in Houston. Don’t know if it’s a one day deal…because…
Worse news…
Hart is starting the 2nd game.
Sure that Cutch2 is going back to Indy.
Also guessing...
that Diaz will be travelling with Daniel.
I guess we just have to tip our hat
and call the brewers our daddy.
To show that some franchises...
aren’t worried about Super 2 status…the Rangers have called up Justin Smoak.
That's nice
If Pedro Alvarez was destroying AAA pitching right now maybe that would be an interesting conversation starter.
Rangers are expecting to compete this year.
And Smoak has been tearing it up. I’m going to the Rangers game tonight and we’ve got tickets just behind 1st base. I’m looking forward to seeing him.
by MarkInDallas on Apr 23, 2010 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
2 things
When I saw the final score, with the among of work our bullpen has had recently, I wondered which positional player pitched (answer = none).
If it somehow cheers you up, I remember a few years ago the Evil Empire lost at home 22-0. **it hapens.
At least
I actually got some work done at the office. I turned on the game in the 3rd and turned it off in the 4th.
should have put Bugs Bunny in to pitch
The score reminded me of the carton, what was the other team called the maulers or something
and then...
It will be interesting to see how they respond to being humiliated 36-1 the last three games, because I think that the 20-0 game was their response of being completely dominated the first two games of the series.
My guess is
being dominated further by a 12-2 margin… it is the Astros after all…
D'oh!
by phillybucco on Apr 23, 2010 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh ya, I like the rebuilding. It looks like it’s working.
Where’s Mark Cuban?
"Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental." - Jim McKenny
So one bad series brings out the idiocy in everyone?
I see how it is. This is the reason why I love Pittsburgh teams but hate Pittsburgh fans.
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