Typically you would think that one could create a template to describe how the Pirates lost a game. So and so did not pitch well or the offense could not get a hit. This current Pirate team is breaking the mold for every way of losing. I don't know if any other team has a lost a game on a base hit. Yes they lost on a base hit.
One can look and say that Jose Tabata hitting Pedro Alvarez did not lose the game. No that would be the dropped ball by McCutchen, the throwing error on Ohlendorf or the dropped pop up by Jaramillo. It really does not matter, as the punch line is that they lost the game on a hit, by a Pirate, not by an Oakland player.
Words can seemingly not do justice to what we are seeing take place. The streak of losing on the road is bordering on epic. The performance in the month June, historic. What makes it all even worse, is that there is not one thing to look to and say that is why it is happening.
We can only wish that the problem would be with just starting pitching. That would provide for an easy fix, getting better starting pitching. No, instead we have issues all over the place, with multiple players. With that broad swath of problems across the roster, I think we are finding that the problems with the team are perhaps worse than many had expected.
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i had written on my blog last September that this team, no matter what management did in the offseason -- knowing they would do nothing of consequence or that cost any money -- would lose 115 games and had a chance for the all time record, which I believe is 123. so far, so good or so bad, depending on how you look at it. This ownership and management are not baseball people and we have no reason to believe that even their draft picks will turn out any better than their management skills, which are abysmal. there is so much pressure on every one player to perform because the team makeup and chemistry is so bad (there is no soul, no connection with fans, no imagination) that is no wonder they all press and underperform.
i also wrote last year that there is NO HOPE for this team until current ownership and management is gone, done, kaput, finished, exiled, or executed. any GM that says the pitcher Everland that we just let go has any "upside" is delusional.
Finally, no one seems to admit that this ownership has done what they have done for one simple reason -- salary dumping. They are spending on the draft cuz they have to or MLB will get after them, but they will NEVER spend the money to build this team, EVER.
At least McCutchen wasn't seriously hurt breaking up that double play. It could always be worse. I think...
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