◆NEWSPirates Notes: Keller, Pitching Pursuits, Lineup◆ROSTERSigned free agent RHP Enmanuel Nunez to a minor league contract◆STATPaul Skenes ranks 4th in the NL in strikeouts (200)◆STATNick Gonzales ranks 4th in the NL in batting average (.303)
◆NEWSPirates Notes: Keller, Pitching Pursuits, Lineup◆ROSTERSigned free agent RHP Enmanuel Nunez to a minor league contract◆STATPaul Skenes ranks 4th in the NL in strikeouts (200)◆STATNick Gonzales ranks 4th in the NL in batting average (.303)
The Pirates continue to step on rakes repeatedly, as they drop another winnable ball game in LA by the score of 5-4. This feature loss saw the team fail to score with runners on the corners and no one out in extras. It also had Brandon Lowe be four seats away from a game-winning home run, a catcher pinch run for in the 8th, and bad ABS challenged galore. The team’s playoff hopes continue to fade fast as they now have to face two of the best lefty pitchers in baseball over the next two games. Watch DiNardo and I break down this game in detail here:
We Drafted Austin Hedges With the First Overall Pick
Henry Davis came into the game for Rafael Flores in the 8th as a pinch runner. Flores was having a bad day at the plate, going 0-4 before exiting the game for Davis. However, Flores should be the guy you want at the plate instead of Davis. Flores has displayed immense power during his brief stint in the majors, while Davis has been floundering for well over 3 seasons. Davis came up in extras with the bases loaded and a chance to win the Pirates the game and instead grounded into a backbreaking double play. Davis now has 800 career at bats and has an OPS+ of 54. Austin Hedges has a career OPS+ of 56 over the years. He is basically only on the team because Paul Skenes likes to pitch to him and because Endy is made of glass. He is a complete flop; no one going number 1 in the draft can be a glove-first catcher that cannot get hits. He cannot be given key at bats when the season is hanging in the balance.
Weaver and Montgomery Are a Deadly Duo
It’s a shame that the Pirates are not in a playoff race because if they were, Luke Weaver and Mason Montgomery would be shutting the door on teams on a nightly basis. Both were elite tonight and have been for months. They combined for 5 strikeouts, and most impressively, they get through innings lightning quick. If you look away for a second, you’ll have missed a quick strikeout. These 2 deserve to make the playoffs and shut the door on games against the league’s best because that is their level of talent. If we were close to a wild card spot, we would have what the 2013-2015 teams had: the ability to end games after 7 innings. The good news is that they are both on the team next year and will immediately slot in at the back of the bullpen. They should be heroes of the 2026 squad, though, and it is a travesty Weaver hasn’t pitched any meaningful innings for the team.
I cannot fathom how fans of this team can watch this unicorn-type player and want to deal him because Jake Mangum exists. Oneil Cruz comes back from a hand injury and has already homered twice in 3 games. His 420-foot tank tonight gave the Pirates hope and momentum to go win the game. The Dodgers feared him so much that he was intentionally walked in the 10th inning. Oneil Cruz was pacing for 30/30 before being hurt for several months, and it’s clear the team was missing the elite tools he brings to the table. His power, speed, and arm can win the Pirates games on their own. Instead of trading him, the Pirates should be doing everything in their power to extend him in the offseason.
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Key takeaways
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Pinch-running Henry Davis for Rafael Flores backfired. In a 4-4 game you keep the hot Flores in over Davis, who has a .191 average over the past 30 days and then hit into the extra-innings double play.
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Bubba Chandler has the talent of a No. 2 or No. 3 starter, but the Pirates have put too much on a rookie who only started pitching fairly recently.
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The calls to trade Oneil Cruz for pitching at the deadline were wrong. Among the everyday players he's the team's best hitter, better than Reynolds, Lowe, Mangum, O'Hearn and Horwitz.
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Extend Oneil Cruz now. With his injuries he lacks the statistical track record to demand a huge deal, and he helps every year with his power, speed and defense.
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If this were a playoff run, Luke Weaver and Mason Montgomery in the 8th and 9th would end games after the 7th inning.
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This is the NS9 postgame show powered by Permanent, but they lose by the four today against the Dodgers.
Dodgers take game one of this pretty important series, which the Tigers look like they could have capitalized and won with. Yeah, the Dodgers remain undefeated in extras on the year because of
course they are. Just, it's hard when your starter goes four innings. It doesn't look all that great, but man, it really felt like the Pirates had this one, like we were talking before the show.
It really felt like the Pirates had this one, the bullpen looked great, they were shutting down the Dodgers, and then they just, they could not score with a runner on first and third with no outs and extra innings. And that's your ball game. It really just comes down to that.
You get, four for 13 in the front of the scoring position. It's not good enough.
and it really came back to bite them when they really needed to run an extras.
It really did. again, we talk about resiliency with this team, the fight in them and his show today, they were down four to two, which also, again, we'll talk about this further, but this was one of those games where it could have been a lot worse. I felt than the four
runs like the four runs. I'm not gonna say best case scenario, but this could have went sideways even further. And it was still very manageable. it was a four, two ball game. They do come back.
Oh, no. Cruz hits a home run. It's a tied ball game. Like you said, the momentum shifted and then the bullpen did their job. that's the thing that they weren't doing earlier on the year.
Like this was a game that was even to entertain extras because it ends up being even with those, that home run, a four run, that they put up, it ends up being like an eight to four ball game or whatever that point in time. Bullpen does a job. They hold it. Mason Montgomery comes in,
shuts the rest of the lineup down and they go into extras. And like you said, that's the, that's the frustrating part about this. They go into extras. You've got guys in the corners, right? Bryan Reynolds hits that single got guys in the corners there. No outs. Here's your chance to
really get some runs on there. Maybe not even just one, maybe get some multiple runs here.
Chris Cruz up and they get absolutely nothing out of them.
Yeah. And I think that's like, that's a really frustrating thing about tonight is that like, I somewhat mentally checked out when Bubba was really struggling. I'm like, okay, well it's going to be one of those nights. It sucks, but like, I'm not going to let it affect me.
But when, I think when you stay up really late watching this game, and I'm sure a lot of the people who are tuned into this are feeling, to watch them claw back, gain the momentum, and then throw it away in such a stupid fashion.
Like, it hurts. And it's hard to not feel at least a little bit frustrated, if not angry about what happened tonight.
I'm sure we'll get to like, the specifics, but no, I'm not in a good mood because I, it's 1.30 in the morning, and I had to watch, I had to watch these guys get walked off on a game
they should have won. And like, it really shouldn't matter to me because I don't think the team is making the playoffs. But like, man, if they won tonight, that's three straight wins.
You came back against the Dodgers on the road. It would have been such a satisfying win.
And that's how that ripped from us. It feels, it feels bad.
It does for multiple reasons. just talking to series in general, it's not that Yamamoto's like, oh, this is the righty. So, they got to get this win. Like, it's still Yamamoto.
He's an excellent starter, but you have two lefties coming up and that's where the pirates do really struggle in for one. And one of those lefties coming up is like a very recent Cy Young winner and like the most coveted pitcher on the trade deadline. And, you're like, it's not
going to be easy tomorrow. So winning today, at least gives you hope and chances for, taking this series when you lose today, like you have to win the next two to take the series.
And it's going to be very tough to do. So there is that aspect of it. And the aspect, like you mentioned, when you're given that opportunity, right? You claw back to this game. It's a four ball game. You go into extras and you have an opportunity in front of you
with two guys on no outs. And again, Nick Gonzales has been hitting well of late. And of course, in today's game, he did, he did a lot of the scoring early on those two runs and then, oh no Cruz coming up after him. You expect to get something done there and oh no. Well, Nick Gonzales gets
out. Oh no. Cruz has walked rightfully. So, you're not going to have him win the game.
We got the base there. And then I do want to talk about this.
So Raphael floors would be due up and they go to Henry Davis. I think this is the talking point. I think this is the talking point.
Raphael floors has been on a heater. He has absolutely been on a tear. He's come up. He's won the ball game multiple times for the Pirates. He's been the hero. I know he's over for today. Two strikeouts.
What are you doing in this situation? You're Don Kelly.
well, he was pinch hit four in the six or pinch ran for in the six question. Right. Was that what happens?
I think it was pretty early on my awesome going crazy. You can correct me if I'm wrong right there in extras.
Oh, I was just saying the extras. Wow. I don't know what that guy was paying. Okay. yeah. Fascinating choice. Isn't it?
I wouldn't. Oh, I thought he was pinch hit four. Hold on. My bad. You know what? You're right. My bad. Hold on. I'm the one. I'm the one here.
Nevermind. He was pitch run for the eighth. It wasn't the six, but it was the eighth. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. Nevermind. That's a good point.
Yeah. pinch running for catchers is a new one. I'll say that. it's more defensible as like a defensive replacement if you just prefer Davis's glove in a tie game.
But yeah, it's really, it really sucks to not have the hot hand come up to bat there. And Henry Davis has been bad all year at the plate. So it just, it really sucks. And I'm not, I'm sure they'll ask him about it. I'm not exactly sure why you would be pinch running in the eighth inning for your catcher of all, of all things.
Right. So again, yeah. And that aspect of it. Right. I just, I don't know if, I understand his defense, right. More to be desired. He did throw out a runner today. That was definitely good on his part. The first one, second one was safe or whatever. He threw out a runner today. he's looked better behind the plate. you still know Henry Davis, but Henry Davis lost a few challenges today. Also say that. Yeah. like I don't, it's a
4-4 ball game. I'm not taking Flores out right now. Not for Henry Davis in this, in this situation.
Yeah. and it comes back to home. Yeah. It's so weird because like, I didn't really think anything of it when it happened. I'm just like, Oh, I guess, he wants Davis's speed. He wants his glove, but no, it really is.
It comes back to bite him because not only does Davis lose what he lost, both our challenges, right? If I'm not mistaken.
he had the loss for extra innings challenges, a ball that wasn't even close, but then he, it wasn't, it was, he, and he has been really good.
Like I'll give him credit. He has been good. That one wasn't close. And I just wonder if because it happened to be like, that would have been the second strike.
Like the third strike. Yeah. Like it's the third strike. Was it the second or third strike? It would have been the third strike. It was like two count. And, but the ball wasn't close. It was like, wait, it was solid four inches off the plate. and then, yeah, the bat is just, it's not there. It wasn't. He, at no point during that bad, the Henry Davis looked like he was going to get a hit. It looked extremely uncompetitive.
Competitive from the jump. He, the batsman bad. He started coming a little bit more alive when he came up. And that's one that we talked about. Like this catching position. Isn't really as bad as people like to talk about it.
And of course it's lifted very much at that point in time. Andy was batting quite well, but Henry was batting better, but it has been awful lately. Past seven days. He's batting one 25, a three 98 OPS. The past 15 days, one 67 of the four 17 OPS. The past 30 days, a one 91 batting average of the four 82 OPS.
It's bad. It is bad. He is. There's nothing, there's nothing right now that makes me want to put Henry Davis into this type of ball game in this situation.
No. And that's fair. like, I don't think Flores is a catcher long-term. I really don't like, I just don't see him sticking there in terms of his like ability to throw or frame.
But yeah, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to take him out in that situation, unless like you really just think the bat isn't that different, but it is, it's much different, even in this small sample size.
and so, yeah, I don't get it to be honest. I don't know. It just sucks. I don't know. I don't know if I'm willing to say like a loss in the game,
but man, did it put Henry Davis in a really bad spot, to come up and hit in the middle of the order.
Cause Henry Davis shouldn't be at the sixth guy in the order in any capacity.
Right. And honestly, it's like, I jokingly said this, behind the scenes here too, but it's like of all the times for Henry Davis to not have this monster pop up.
It was in that situation. I would have took the Henry Davis pop up. Okay.
At least it's just one out then carry it over to the next guy. Right. But he hits the, into the double play there. And again, just ends all hopes.
Now you got to go to the Dodgers or Gregory Soto pitching, which like nothing against Soto. It's like, you're not as confident as like Montgomery, obviously, but you got to go back to the Dodgers.
That's a man on second right away with his ghost runner. And it's just like, you felt, you felt it. And then it was close, but they, yeah, they Gregory Soto gives up the hit to left field.
And that was enough to score the guy. And that was the ball game. But regardless, it's not as if that situation of Henry Davis, like you mentioned, said, was the deciding factor of this ball game.
it's a plethora of people, right? Like you mentioned, though, the guys left on base, right? The bats were very spotty again.
It's a good pitcher up there, but also starting with Bubba Chandler. This was a game. I thought heading into this, as mentioned Yamamoto, very good pitcher, even though he's a ready, right?
Very good pitcher. This team struggles against the splitter. His splitter is fantastic. his splitter and four seam is the sun hittable. And he did, he threw those the majority of today and the Pirates were not doing well.
Now, ironically, they had two hits against the splitter, but they also swung a miss a lot against the splitter and the four seamer. So Yamamoto is pretty much as advertised, but like in this game, it's felt like it's one of those games where you're not going to do much against him, which they didn't, they got two runs, wasn't a whole lot against them.
Bubba had to give this team a chance. He had to go out there and pitch well to that way, get this team into the bullpen to maybe score the runs there, which of course they also did.
Bubba didn't do that tonight.
No, he didn't. And I think part of, I don't think like he was as bad as his stat line would suggest, but it was clear that this lineup gave him all types of issues.
Like what makes it like a successful Bubba Chandler start is like an ability to get, at least in some capacity, get guys out quickly in some way, shape or form.
And he just could not do that. And then like, even like, and it was the third inning. And I think I want to say we're like the Dodgers don't score, but I'm pretty sure they either get two runners on or load the bases. And he is just laboring through every single at bat.
They were loaded. They were loaded. Yeah. Like he pitches like seven pitches in that bat. He's visibly frustrating on the mound and like good for him for getting out of that. Cause it could have been like much worse.
But at the same time, it's not good enough. And that Mookie, even when he got to those two outs, he then gives up some like dinky single, the Mookie bats with the bases loaded.
And that it's sunk the team in a way.
Yeah.
That third inning was pretty bad. And I felt.
So I agree with what you said that he pitched better. I think the stat line shows, but the stat line could have been worse than what it was at the same time, and I say that because a lot, there was a lot of unluckiness to today or not even so much.
It's unluckiness, but the Dodgers are a very veteran experience team like that home run to Max Muncy.
Like he hits, he hits that up and in one Oh one, and Muncy takes that deep and that's a two, nothing ball to run right there.
And it's like that's the max Muncy right there.
You're ready for a set about that. You're ready for sure.
Since the stack has here at 2015, that is the second home run.
A lefty hitter is hit on a hundred mile an hour fastball up and in there.
Okay.
So then maybe that also we can equate to unluckiness, not just Max Muncy, kudos to you, but maybe some unluckiness again, like that.
That's not a bad pitch.
No, it was a great pitch.
Muncy won that good for him.
Right.
So that's where the stat line doesn't really show how well Bob a pitch, like you mentioned, however, things were happening.
Guys were getting on and he was creating a lot of his damage.
And like you mentioned, like again, that third inning, like bases were loaded.
He did get out of that jam.
It could have been a lot worse of a third inning than what it was now was part of that too, because he had two clear strikes thrown.
I forget who it was that were called balls.
And instead of being an O and two counts at two O account, was he getting squeezed a little by the umpire tonight?
Yeah.
Was he really wild tonight too, in ways?
Yeah.
Like he wasn't, even though, like I said, those two strikes should have been balls or those.
Yeah.
Those two strikes were that were called balls should have been strikes in that, at bat there.
he wasn't doing any favors by throwing a lot of balls and walking guys and hitting batters.
Yeah, no, he couldn't get out of his own way tonight for sure.
Like the, so just like, despite the six strikeouts that he has, like what she earned, cause this stuff was pretty good tonight.
Yeah.
He really killed himself with untimely walks, untimely hit by pitches.
And then once you do that against the Dodgers, the Dodgers just have too many guys to not take advantage of that.
and so it's a combination of luckiness, like that home run for Muncie, just absurd.
meanwhile, Brandon Lowe hits one, four seats foul in the ninth inning.
Like it's always like it's one of those nights where it's the, like, no, but Chandler still has to be better.
And I know he's a rookie pitcher and like the talent is clearly there.
Like there's clearly like a high number two, number three pitcher.
It's going to be in this league for a very long time in there.
He's just not there yet.
And I feel like the pirates might've put a little too much on him in terms of what to expect from a rookie pitcher.
who started pitching very recently, all things considered.
Yeah.
sure.
for sure.
There's certainly a lot of talent in Bubba.
And we've seen, we've been seeing a lot of the talent translate to results of recent.
And again, like with tonight, to your point, Max Muncie doesn't hit that home run.
That's two runs by Bubba.
Like, that's where we're getting at.
And again, like the problem, like you said, that's the second time ever in the stat cast era that's happened.
So it's very probable that doesn't happen.
And you're talking about Bubba maybe in a different light tonight than that.
But at the same time, those four runs, right.
And that third inning things that easily could have given up more.
And it's now six runs that he gave up instead of the four that's on the stat line.
So like, kudos to him for getting out of those jams.
That was also self-imposed.
But then there was some unluckiness, like you said, that home run and some of the calls and such.
So yeah, it was a mixed bag from Bubba tonight.
But again, you did need, again, if you really wanted to win this game, you needed the good Bubba to show up again tonight.
You really had to, you had a, you probably going to be limited by Yamamoto.
You needed to limit the Dodgers and then give this chance, this team a chance in, facing the bullpen, which they did.
So again, it was four earned.
He only goes four.
That's part of the problem too.
But Yohan comes in and he gives the experience.
Yohan pitched effective.
Of course, he had to walk a guy with four straight balls.
Well, of course, that's just his MO.
Right.
Yeah.
like one last thing about Chandler.
I don't know about Chandler.
It's like, unfortunately, the Pirates are in a position where like, we can say like how he still has talent and how he can look good.
But the Pirates can't win games off and make the playoffs off of potential.
Unfortunately, they need the guys to show up and play now, which means that they needed good Bubba Chandler, a Bubba Chandler that at least goes five innings and doesn't have that third inning.
And you didn't have that tonight.
And I think luckily the bullpen was fantastic.
Starting with Yohan, this bullpen showed up and did exactly what they needed to do.
Like, I feel bad for Gregory Soto.
But like this bullpen pitched, what, five and two thirds innings, two hits given up to this Dodgers lineup and five and two thirds innings.
And Yohan started it off really well.
Yeah, he did.
He did.
Again, it was the experience.
He walked out for four pitches and you're like, oh, here we go.
And then he does Yohan stuff.
Stuff is just absolutely filthy.
And he gets out of it.
I want to get to some supers here, though.
So, Dean and Dean, thanks for the $5 super.
He does say bullpen was nails today.
Absolutely.
Tonight was on the offense except Cruz, Brandon Lowe, and Gonzalez.
Isaiah, thanks for the $5 super, says, if I had a nickel every time our bats looked at mid-mid fastballs for strikeouts, I'd have a lot of nickels.
Yes, so back to Dean's point, that's true, but, and I forget which inning it was that one, the six, whatever, where, there was just Spencer Horwitz and Brandon Lowe, especially just such uncompetitive bats.
And Brandon Lowe, strike three, fastball, right down the middle.
just right down the middle, looking at it.
So, yeah, not on the offense as far as Brandon Lowe goes mostly, but that at-bat by Brandon Lowe, that was a pathetic at-bat.
It was.
And you gotta swing the bat there, man.
Not looking.
not fastball middle-middle looking.
However, I'm more concerned about the other guy you mentioned.
Spencer.
Because this predates his return.
So, obviously, he's been terrible since he came back from the IL, which makes sense.
It's a concussion that he's also been dealing with.
But, over his last 30 games, and you think he's been back for 14, question mark, maybe?
Something like?
Since the second, so I think.
Oh, even less.
Yeah, 14-ish.
Or maybe the second or third, but yeah.
Yeah, but he is batting over his last 30, 196, on-base percentage of .308, and a slugging percentage of .313.
He has been terrible.
And the Pirates can't have their leadoff guy go 0 for 5 with two strikeouts on a nightly basis.
Really could have used him to do some damage there tonight.
Because, Brandon Lowe had already done a good job.
It's hard to get three straight hits, even though that at-bat was bad.
Please do your job, Horwitz.
Right.
Yeah.
I guess my thing with Horwitz is, right, he's not helping the club right now.
The club needs help right now.
so he is struggling.
it's almost like the Brandon Lowe situation.
Like, Brandon Lowe struggled for actually quite a bit of time as well.
it was a quiet struggle because the offense was still really good.
And it's whatever.
Like, when everyone's clicking, I should say when everyone, but like, when the offense is clicking and someone's struggling, it's not as noticeable.
But when the offense isn't producing, it's really easy to find the guys that aren't helping yet, you know?
And right now, that's the situation.
Like, when Brandon Lowe was struggling, no one really talked about it.
Brandon Lowe was, again, technically, through a month's time, he was a worse hitter than Jared Triolo.
He was actually, like, the worst actual, like, everyday-type player on this team.
But the thing is, too, it's like, but Spencer Horwitz has proven to me he's a good hitter.
Like, I'm not worried in the sense of, like, oh, Spencer Horwitz is bad.
He's still a good hitter.
It's just, he's going through his struggles right now.
It's just not a timely time to go through those struggles right now.
Yeah, that's entirely fair.
I just think when the bottom third of your lineup or bottom four of your lineup doesn't really get on base, except one Mangum hit, and then also the top of your lineup is struggling.
Like, that's just six guys where nothing is happening.
I'm not even asking for, like, whatever he was where he was, like, top 10 in the league and OPS or something like that through, like, the last calendar year.
I'm not even expecting that.
But, like, we need better Spencer Horwitz if we want him to make this run.
Well, you need him to be what he is on the season.
Like, he's got, right now, he's got a 756 OPS.
Like, you need that Spencer Horwitz, not the one who, which, like you mentioned, let me pull up a splits real quick here.
His last 30, you said, was, yeah, like a 4, it's a 424 OPS.
I believe in the way it's translating into results this year.
But, again, coming off that injury and being away from baseball as long as he was, like, I don't think it's fair to expect Oneil Cruz to come back and just carry an offense.
But he has.
He's come back and he's been that dude, like you mentioned.
So, like, hats off to Oneil Cruz for apparently having no effects of this injury and timing and such.
But, absolutely.
And, also, tremendous defense today.
And not even just the defense.
I'm not even talking about just the diving catch he made to help out Mason Montgomery.
Right?
Mason Montgomery comes in the ninth, strikes out the first two batters.
Now, Chandler ended up giving up the runs off the hit.
But there was twice that the Dodgers could have attempted to tag up.
And they didn't just because the ball went into Oneil Cruz's glove.
No, he has all of the star intangibles.
He has that huge arm.
He has the power.
He has the speed.
And at least the plate, he's really started putting everything together.
And he shows you flashes of what he could be as an outfielder.
And I do think a lot of the bad defensive stuff just comes from the fact he never played it until two years ago.
I would do unspeakable things to, like, let's get this guy extended because he doesn't have the body of work stat wise to, like, demand, like, an insane deal.
But he has the intangibles that you can pay him a pretty decent amount of money, keep him around.
And he's someone, who really helps his team every single year with his power, with his speed, and with his defense.
Yeah.
That's definitely another topic for, like, another day.
But because of the injuries and, like, he's not going to make a ton of money, per se, through arbitration.
So, that helps your extension talks.
So, yeah, man.
Oh, no, Cruz, come back, looking really good.
Again, he makes this ball game interesting.
But ultimately, they do lose it in extras because of the other offensive, offense players.
Yep.
I will say, I will say, is that it's too bad the Pirates have been losing a lot of games.
Because, man, if this was, like, a playoff run, Weaver and Montgomery as a 1-2 punch in the 8th and 9th inning would just be so good.
Games would be over after the 7th inning.
They are just those dudes.
They looked incredible tonight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No question.
And, like you mentioned, they both absolutely just looked nails.
The way Montgomery has, like, turned this season, you saw things.
It wasn't always coming together, but it slowly has.
And he has the confidence in the world right now.
And he is just throwing strikes.
And he looks so damn good.
Yep.
And Weaver as well.
But, hey, they play tomorrow.
Tomorrow, it's going to be a tough task.
Yamamoto was tonight.
But, oh, boy.
Tomorrow's Skubal.
Yay.
Was it Skubal?
It's Skubal and Snell, right?
Skubal and then Snell.
Correct.
And that's what I said.
Like, Snell's not the same type of pitcher he, has been in the past.
But it's still Snell.
But it's still Snell.
He's still left-handed.
And that's going to come after facing Yamamoto and then Skubal.
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Thanks again for all your support, and let's go Bucs.
Thanks again for all your support, and let's go Bucs.
Thanks again for all your support, and let's go Bucs.
Thanks again for all your support, and let's go Bucs.
Thanks again for all your support, and let's go Bucs.
Thanks again for all your support, and let's go Bucs.
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Should the Pirates sign Oneil Cruz to an extension now, before his production drives up his price?
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