Our 3 Takeaways From the Pirates 4-2 Nail Biter Win in Chicago

What's up, everyone? This is North Shore Nine presented by FanDuel. You're locked into the NS9 postgame show powered by Primanti Brothers. I'm Jim. With me tonight is Neil. Neil, the Pirates climb back to 500. A 4-2 win tonight. They hang on. This game had everything. Just a fun game to watch.

Yeah, a lot of heroes, a lot of clutch plays, surprising amount of drama considering it was 4-0 going into the seventh inning. But no, that was really fun. And, not to put too much damper, but like, if this was, to put us within two games of a wild card instead of bringing us back into like 500, this would be a really fun show.

And I'm sure it will be anyway. But like, all I can think about is like, if we were a little bit closer, this could be like a special day you look back on. Like, this was, this was the moment.

And yeah, all we can ask them to do at this point is win as many games as possible, right? The time has passed, like August happened. The end of July happened. We're here in September.

Win as many games as you possibly can, right? And they're doing that, right? And hey, that's, as of right now, that's all we can do. Pirates don't have any control over what the Padres are doing, what the Diamondbacks are doing.

They were able to pass the Cardinals and the Marlins. At this point, I'm still not even like looking at that as a realistic option, but just, yeah, win as many games as possible.

Let's give out as many Primanti Brothers sandwiches that we can before the end of the season, because guess what, Neil? I don't know if baseball is going to start on time next year. I don't know if there's going to be baseball at all. So, you know what?

Let's feed the people. Let's get as many sandwiches out there as possible. So, you guys, make sure you get your hashtag Raisits in the chat. Pirates win. We're going to be giving away sandwiches today.

But, yeah, Neil, let's start this one. This was a, it was a bullpen game, right? And I think what made this game a little bit interesting, as opposed to previous bullpen games that the Pirates have had, is typically they've rolled out an opener,

and then they've had like a bulk guy, which was typically Carmen Mlodzinski or Khristian Curtis lately.

And today they really didn't, they really didn't go that route. Brandon Eisert was the bulk guy and he pitched out of his mind two and a third scoreless innings, five strikeouts, no walks, no hits, just to, this was the Brandon Eisert revenge game.

Neil is what this was. He was outstanding, but they, overall, the Pirates use eight pitchers today to get their 27 outs, which is again, just something that you typically don't see whenever they go this route with the bullpen game.

And they usually let Mlodzinski or Curtis go, four or five innings. And that didn't happen. They everyone had their, had their role and had their inning, especially once they got, past the fourth.

And for the most part, for the most part, Neil, everyone did their job.

Yeah, I'm sure we'll get to the guys who didn't, but no, Eisert and probably has, he's probably never pitched better in his major league career than what he did tonight.

five of the seven guys he faces or strikeouts, no hits considering the season he's had.

his ERA sits right now at a 563.

What a fantastic, just bridge into the middle of the game. I couldn't believe it.

Yeah. he was, he was great.

Like you mentioned, like the truck out five out of the seven batters, he nine swings and misses on the night.

He had a whiff rate of 45%.

Yeah. Like, yeah, he was great.

the best, definitely the best that we've seen Brandon Eisert in his short time, since coming over from the white socks.

And like, I think that probably made it a little bit more special too, was like, the white socks.

I'm sure they basically just threw him in to that deal, right?

Like the pirates were like, Hey, we really like Jacob Gonzalez, but like, give us some reliever as well.

And they're like, yeah, you can have Eisert.

he stinks and he goes out here and I started with a big reason why the pirates, one, this game, and it was a good spot for him too, because, looking at this white socks lineup, they have a lot of lefties, right?

one, two, three, four, five, six lefties in this lineup.

four of their first five hitters are lefties.

so yeah, it just lined up really nicely for Brandon Eisert to go out there and face batters that, he matched up well against and it rent, it went really well.

And we also can't, take anything away from Lake Bachar who got yet another start and has continued to do really well in that opener role.

When called upon, he definitely wasn't as efficient and clean as Eisert was like Bachar gave up two hits.

He gave up a walk as well, but struck out three batters in his inning in two thirds and didn't allow a run.

So, between Bachar and Eisert getting through those first, those first four innings, that was, that was big because the pirates offense took a little bit of time to wake up today too.

yeah, this was, this, it's funny cause this game was really thrilling, but the first half of the game was pretty boring or like pitchers duel ish.

Bachar was great.

and yeah, like, not as most efficient, but I guess my question is, do you think like there's an actual future where the pirates actually stretch him out to be more than as an opener or more of a reliever?

Or like, as like an option next year, cause we know Ben really likes his options to start or do you think this is like, Hey, Mitch Keller's hurt.

We just desperately need to get someone to fill in.

And it's cause like, I'd be intrigued if like it was something they tried out in spring training next year.

Yeah.

I'm not really, excuse me.

I'm not really willing to throw like the future starter tag on Lake Bachar.

yeah, I just don't think it's like good enough stuff.

To do it for five, six innings, but it is good enough to do it for two to three innings.

So, yeah, I think the role that he's in right now, this multi-inning reliever role with the occasional, Hey, if it makes sense, let's go ahead and use you as an opener.

It's working out really well for him.

So I wouldn't mess with this.

you do need, one or two pitchers like that on your pitching staff anyways.

and who knows what like Carmen Mlodzinski situation is going to be, next year.

But yeah, I see like Bachar filling in that Carmen Mlodzinski role that he had earlier, in the season, but before he apparently has turned into a single inning reliever.

Yeah, no, and that's entirely fair.

it's, I've always, I've dubbed it the Luis Ortiz role before he became a starter, but I really like having a guy who can come in for those two innings or so steady a ship, whether that be an opener for someone or in that fifth or sixth inning, fourth or fifth inning.

And so I really enjoyed him being on this team because he does fill a niche role that I think the pirates have found a lot of success with over the last couple of years.

Yeah.

And you mentioned like, especially with Keller out, like they need guys like this to step up because they're going out there and they're doing a bullpen game once every time through the rotation.

And without Bachar doing what he's been doing since being acquired, like it wouldn't be working, but like they've had a lot of success with these bullpen games.

Agreed.

And I w I was surprised to see Mlodzinski only went one inning.

It worked.

I, it's a bold move to use almost every single option in your pen when you don't have a day off until I think next Monday, if I'm not mistaken, they might not even have next Monday off.

But it worked and I like that.

Yeah.

Okay.

I do like that.

They're focused on winning the games in front of them instead of trying to stretch.

Figure out guys, figure out the rest later.

I will say this, like one guy who didn't pitch today was Khristian Curtis.

So like, if you need somebody to go out there and maybe throw, four, five innings in a game, you at least have him, you have him there.

So I could maybe see just like a Jones Curtis game tomorrow where the plan is Jones goes five, Curtis goes for, and if it can line up that way, that would be, that would be outstanding.

Give everybody else a day off.

but yeah, let's shift gears.

So like I said, Bachar, I cert great job.

the pirates offense.

I wouldn't say that like it, that they didn't do anything because they were getting people on base.

Konnor Griffin walked to lead off the game, Brandon Lowe walked, but then Nick Gonzales runs a double play to a rate, to a race that, in the second inning, O'Neil Cruz with a lead off single.

And then as he's stealing second, Esmerlyn Valdez hits a ball up the middle, which would have been just an easy single.

it actually had the highest expected batting average of the game, nine 60 expected batting average.

and because the second baseman and to notchy, who we'll get to later in this, covering second on Cruz's stolen base, he's able to make this like spectacular leaping catch behind second base.

And it's an easy double play.

So the pirates, I like the offense wasn't necessarily like non-existent.

I think they just got into some, they had a lot of really good batted ball luck yesterday and today with a lot of really bad, batted ball luck.

and so it erased anything that they got going those early innings.

Yeah, I think it's just a case where the lack of slugging recently has really come back to hurt the team.

Cause they're right.

They got a lot of people on, but it's mostly walks and singles and there's not, there weren't a whole, I don't think we hit any doubles.

There's only one extra base hit, which was a Valdez's home run today.

You gotta, you gotta be slugging the ball a little better than what this team is doing.

it's how we got the whole offensive party started tonight, but it, I think that's a big reason why.

was should Valdez have gotten a single there 100% that was just a freak play and really good at bat by him.

But as a team, I think that's where like the offense is suffering the most.

Like we're reverting back to that 2025 thing where you get a lot of guys on a lot of walks, a lot of singles, but then no one's really there to drive them home.

and all those is, they've improved since the angel series.

That's for sure.

Yeah.

that the angel series was rough to watch, from an offensive standpoint.

today they do pick up 10 hits yesterday.

They had 18 hits, four runs today.

They eventually got to the white socks added on like they, like you mentioned the Valdez home run.

so Valdez homers in the fifth to give the pirates a one, nothing lead.

he, they've been, like you mentioned, they've really needed some power, because they haven't had a ton of it lately.

Valdez's power has slipped away a little bit.

The second half is he's making his adjustments like any rookie would.

but it was nice to see him just nice, easy, opposite field power.

that was his 17th home run of the season.

Neil, yes, the pirates on the board, one, nothing.

and then they go to Carmen Mlodzinski, in the, in the fifth inning.

And again, just an easy one, two, three inning for Carmen Mlodzinski.

Didn't throw a ton of pitches, 10 pitches, eight of them for strikes.

and he just goes the one inning, which is the second time now in a row that he's done that.

yeah.

So he's only thrown one inning twice this season.

And it's been his last two outings.

Finally, no, but I do want to give flowers to Valdez because he had, he really had an extra game, excellent game today.

the home run probably should have been an RBI at the middle, a nice single, a really nice walk.

cause I think, I think we talked last week about how we were getting worried about him and how like, he's really struggling to go through like the adjusting to what MLB pitching is throwing at him.

but this makes me reassured, like this is a real MLB player really got to start focusing on getting better with that runners in scoring position.

I do think that's coming along.

Yeah.

even with the ups and the downs that he's had, Neil, his, he's got a, what are we looking at here?

One 33 weighted runs created plus on the year.

he is striking out quite a bit, right?

But again, if you're, if you're going to be slugging like this, if you're going to be slugging five 17, go ahead and strike out 37% of the time.

I don't give a shit.

if you're slugging over 500, you can do whatever you want the rest of the time.

but yeah, it's nice to see he's still just 22 years old.

There's a lot of room for growth there.

there's what, two weeks left in this season, two and a half weeks left in this season.

if they can have him just finish this year strong, it makes you feel really good.

Heading into his sophomore year, which would be his first full season, and putting his name in ink, in that right field spot for like years to come, it would be nice to just have somebody where it's like, yeah, he's our right fielder or he's our, like that would just be, that would be so nice to have.

but yeah, pirates are up one.

Weaver on the IL, he's clearly not the same picture.

They thought they were getting hoped.

He gets better soon.

Now, as the reports today seem like that he was pretty much over the poison Ivy stuff.

they, as long as, like, as long as he's not injured, and he's physically capable of going out there and doing the job, you leave him in there.

he is good.

I think the other thing too, with Weaver and we'll get to the Weaver inning later.

but there's just, there's a lot of like small sample size reliever bad luck going on there.

which we'll now he got shelled today.

Like he, not tonight.

I agree.

Like tonight was, tonight was bad.

we'll get to it, but like overall, I don't think he's been as bad as the numbers have shown.

shout out to Norman Pirates fan 19.

Triolo should get the save tonight.

Yeah, we'll talk about that too.

And that, and that Weaver inning.

all I'll say is Jared Weaver has to do a lot over these next two and a half weeks to lose the nickname Poison Ivy.

Cause that's what I'm going to call him from now on.

He's just Poison Ivy until he's, he knocks us off.

Yeah.

yeah, that's a good point.

Like, just show us that you're back to being the guy that you were, that we were hoping to be getting.

Whatever you were traded for.

Right.

so pirates get out of that sixth inning without scoring any runs because of another double play.

which that was what the third double play the pirates had through six innings.

Just again, just shooting themselves in the foot.

Anytime they got a chance.

Gregory Soto comes in to face the sixth quick first out, quick second out, hits Murakami, gives up a base hit to Grichick, but gets Colson Montgomery to strike out, the whole time too.

This was when I first noticed the little kid who was heckling.

Apparently he was doing this all game.

Oh my gosh.

Like Gregory Soto, the whole time Soto is out there, he's going, we want a pitcher, not a belly itcher, which is, it's a solid shirt.

Right.

it's been around for ages.

It's very, it's clean.

It's clean.

It annoyed the hell out of me.

I was like, yeah, like someone go out there and get that kid.

I don't, I don't want to hear him anymore.

Right.

but Soto is somehow able to overcome the, we want a pitcher, not a belly itcher chance.

and he gets out of that sixth inning.

He'll never hear anything worse.

if the kid, if the kid was reading his Twitter, he should have saved that for Weaver to be the belly itcher.

but no, right.

Like, that's like, hold on kid.

We have a belly itcher.

He's going to be in the game soon.

Like, yeah, it is crazy.

There's like the, I don't know, the white socks are division leaders and like the game was so sparsely attended that you could hear that kid.

Like, come on, white socks.

Like you guys, you guys just celebrate having a good team.

but on a serious note about like Soto was great tonight.

I thought like really nails to get out of that.

yeah, I love that.

I love the lack of ego coming into the six and just doing his job.

I don't know.

I love having these guys come in at any situation in any inning and getting a job done.

I love that.

And so kudos to Soto.

Yeah.

And Mlodzinski with the fifth Soto with the sixth, the pirate.

Don Kelly managing this game, like it's a playoff game and by all accounts, it really is.

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So, yeah, but pirates are up one, nothing through six.

Soto gets a clean sixth inning.

We head to the seventh inning and this is where the pirates, I thought this game was being put on ice here in the seventh inning.

They just kept adding and adding and adding, Esmerlyn Valdez and Valdez with a leadoff walk.

Billy cook pinch runs for Valdez first managerial decision.

We can maybe discuss, that feel like Don Kelly just loves pinch running Billy cook for Esmerlyn Valdez and Valdez.

it didn't come back to bite the pirates in any way.

so, all in all it worked out.

Spencer Horwitz lays down a bunt, Neil and the speedy whore, the speedy, the speedy Spencer Horwitz.

just a perfect bunt, meets it out runners on first and second.

And then Rafael Flores, who I talked about a lot last night, just a great piece of hitting base hit to right center field.

Just take, taking the pitch where it was, where it was thrown, gives the pirates a two nothing lead.

He's just, he's been really good.

He's just been, he's been really good.

Yeah.

I am not quite sure if he fits a catcher, which means he joins the collective of talented first baseman slash DH as we have on the roster.

But yeah, really good hitting and the power has been awesome.

I really liked the piece they did before the game about Flores, where they were talking about how like the, he feels like on his home runs, he's not even swinging a hundred percent.

So I'm excited to see them unlocked set 100% down the road.

It makes me feel like there's something even more that you can get excited about with Flores.

So really good hitting there.

Yeah, I agree.

on that same boat as Valdez, right?

Like you want to see this last month continue what you've seen this season, because yeah, like if you can go in, like I said, go into the off season, just feeling really good about Valdez and Flores.

it just, it'll, it opens up a lot more things for you to do, like if you don't have to go out there and get a catcher, you don't have to go out there and get a corner outfielder, then you can go out there and spend your resources on other things that can help you out.

Maybe like another starting pitcher or more bullpen help or a third baseman, however you want to address it.

like being able to get internal options to fill spots, is going to be a good thing.

So yeah, I want to keep seeing this out of, Rafael Flores.

Ronny Simon comes into the game.

Ronnie ball, grounds into a fielder's choice.

so he just basically, switches spots with Flores.

and then Konnor Griffin, just another game changing moment to run single puts the pirates up for nothing ultimately ends up being the game winning RBI.

big two out hit, for nothing bucks.

But just a, just a, and a great at bat by Konnor Griffin too.

he got, he got down, he got down Oh two quick, fouled off two more pitches and then eventually got, a fastball that caught most of the plate.

and they were able to, he was able to turn on it, hit it up the middle and drive into runs.

No, it's a great how, even though Griffin hasn't necessarily been like lighting the world on fire with his hitting, he's been good enough that like, he's a real floor raiser for this offense.

And I think the team was really missing.

And like this, I think we were, they've already talked about the speed that he's put on the base paths, but like, again, just that two out single, you probably don't get that from Jacob Gonzalez.

You probably don't get that from Jared Triolo starting at short.

We have missed him so badly.

That's that.

I think this is a big one, big, what if I think we could have weathered the cruise injury, the Horwitz injury, but it really feels like a healthy Griffin probably has this team feeling a lot differently about the record than what it would be.

Yeah.

cause you look at it and with the way that this schedule is lining up for September, the way they're playing right now, like if you could have just.

Like not lost 12 of 14, right?

Like maybe you just lose eight of 14.

Like you, like, even if you're not playing well, but you just aren't playing as shitty.

you're in a different, you're in a different spot right now.

So, that's, that's going to be a big, what if is like, Hey, like, what if Griffin didn't get hurt?

Where would we have been?

because yeah, it's pretty clear that he's a game changer.

he just had the one hit today, but he scored two runs.

he's, he stole two bases.

He, drove two runs in, and this is the second game in a row where he's been just a really big part of it.

this is an unreal talent.

Like he's, he's one of those players where it's like, you want to watch every single thing he is doing at all times.

no, I love him.

And I'm just, again, it's only just from a personal enjoyment standpoint, missing so much Griffin this year.

Cause I don't know.

He's been great the whole time.

Yeah.

He's a fun guy to watch, right?

Yeah.

Super fun guy to watch.

so the pirates get that four, nothing lead there in the, in the seventh Camilo Doval comes in and he does exactly what you don't want to do when you have a four run lead in the seventh inning.

He walks the lead off batter, strikes out Peters, gives up an infield single, but then walks another batter.

And this is where, I don't know, it's still just a four, nothing game at this point, but I brought it up before this next at bat even happened.

You do have a pretty full bullpen there.

Like you've got, you've got arms.

the one, like the biggest.

Knock I have on Don Kelly is he just seems to, he seems to like, he has no problem taking starting pitchers out of the game.

Like pretty early and pretty soon.

but when it comes to relievers, like the others, it's different now.

Cause there's a three batter minimum, but like, you don't have to leave them in for a fourth batter.

Like if they look like shit through three batters, go and get them right.

Like, and if they look like shit through four batters, go and get them.

I feel like that's the one piece where he just isn't as quick as other managers that I've watched.

And it has hurt him on occasion today.

it's not that Duval didn't get the job done on the batted ball, right?

Like he gets the ground ball.

Spencer Horwitz makes a really nice play, but then Camilo Doval just freezes.

He doesn't cover first.

Like you're supposed to, when a ball gets hit your first baseman and Antonacci reaches with an infield single.

So now instead of getting an out there, which would have been out number two and you're, you don't have the bases loaded, you're looking a little bit better at getting out of the inning.

Now it's one out bases loaded and Duval's faced five batters.

He's thrown.

it's not that he was being efficient either.

Like he threw 26 pitches and the game was slipping away at this point.

And he finally makes the change.

Finally makes the pitching change at that point.

What are your thoughts?

Like, I know you're a big, it's not like you're about to continue for a second.

No, you're a big pro manager guy.

So I was like, let's see what Neil has to say.

Is he actually going to say a bad thing about a manager?

But like, that's been my biggest knock on Kelly.

No, I think that's fair.

I do wonder like how much it being everyone gets their inning as a bullpen game factored into that decision.

I don't have any numbers in front of me to say, like, he really lets people go a long time.

I don't, I'm sure that's something you've witnessed and I'm sure it's true.

I would, I would have pulled him earlier.

Yeah.

yeah, it's weird.

Cause it's going to be going back to me that they were a deval has been really good for us, even though he's been going through a rough patch recently that maybe he wanted to trust his guy.

But no, if, as you said, he's managing, like it's a playoff game and it's, as a playoff game for us for all intents and purposes, go get him.

When he walks that second guy, it's not really his fault that, it is his fault.

Cause he didn't cover first base, but like, it's not like he was getting shelled out there.

No, the ball didn't leave the infield.

that's the thing.

Like he didn't let a ball leave the infield, but he's also, he walked half of the batters that he faced.

And yeah, like I said, this is a playoff game.

You got to win this game.

And I feel like he's just, he left him in a batter too long.

he brings Yohan in and Yohan.

Oh, my heart.

He's man.

Guess the double play ground ball triolo.

It was actually a nice play by triolo too.

He made it look a little bit easier than it was.

It was an in-between hop.

triolo played it well, five, four, three, double play to end the inning.

So big double play to end the seventh inning and squash that White Sox surge there.

At that point, I was like, okay, it's Weaver Montgomery.

We should be feeling pretty good right now.

Pirates, go down scoreless in the eighth.

Lute Weaver comes in first batter, Murakami home run.

Yeah.

And it's like, oh man.

but you're still up by two.

It's like never solo Homer.

Then he gives up a single to Randal Grichuk and hit hard.

Like it wasn't, we're not talking about a, infield hit, like a line drive single to Gritchick.

He gets Montgomery, to strike out.

but then Brad Braden Montgomery, the other Montgomery doubles, to put runners on second and third, and then he hits Tristan Peters to load the bases with one out.

So yeah, like Neil, he's that kid.

The kid should have been doing the belly it's your chant here because poison Ivy, I don't know what it was, but, yeah.

Luke Weaver did not look good tonight.

Sorry.

Who did he, who did he hit again with the pitch?

I forget his name.

He hit Tristan Peters.

So what is Tristan Peters is the baggiest Jersey I've ever seen in my life.

Like the amount of like space that like that Jersey flew out where it didn't hit any skin.

I, that was like a 1920s Jersey on him.

no terrible stuff from Weaver.

just it's so unfortunate.

Cause like, I agree.

I think you even mentioned in the discord, like his FIP is lower in Pittsburgh than it is.

And then it wasn't as a Met, but tonight there was no FIP.

He was just getting shell and he couldn't, he wasn't, he was either throwing it right down the middle or he was throwing it way outside the zone and no one was getting fooled.

Yeah, not his, not his best outing.

that's he's given up runs now in, let's see, going back now in four of his outings with the Pirates.

So heard it on August 7th was his first appearance.

So in 11 games, 10 and a third inning, 6.10 earned run average, 1.65 FIP.

yeah, I think he struck out 12.

He's only walked four.

So it's like, it's not a strikeout walk thing.

It's just, he's getting hit pretty hard.

that's what, that was his problem today.

but thank God, Neil.

so remember when we talked about Ronny Simon earlier, Jared Triolo came in, already started the double play of the inning before.

Ooh, chase me drop.

I think that's, and I can, I can double check that here, but he gets my drop.

They laces a ball, down the left field line.

And this ball was heading to the left field corner.

chase my drop, chase my drop.

I think, were we, were we both wrong or were you right?

I think, I think I said my drop, but I also, it's also hard to trust me on these.

Yeah.

Chase my drop.

So chase my drop hits a ball, 100 miles an hour, right down the line.

Jared Triolo, he's playing even with the bag, just an outstanding catch, just an incredible catch.

He, it was a leaping catch.

He had to jump, he had to reach for it.

And then he just had to take three steps to step on third base to finish off the double play.

expected batting average on that hit, Neil was 800, which made a very weird statistical anomaly in this game.

The two batted balls, Neil, with the highest expected batting average today, were both double plays.

Those had a higher expected average in Valdez's home run.

Valdez.

Yeah.

Valdez's home run had, was way low on the list.

Actually, this, the stat seems a little wonky.

No, that's a Ke'Bryan Hayes-esque double play.

If I do say so myself, just fantastic reaction time, just sticks a glove out there and gets it.

And he got, in some ways for my drop, this is the most unlucky thing you could do.

He hit it right at Triolo.

If it's at anywhere else, it's a double, it clears the bases and it's a tie game, but no fantastic stuff from Triolo.

That's a gold glove catch.

And if there is a DVD, if the pirates make the playoffs, I am dubbing Jared Triolo gets the first couple minutes for this game because that is, that saved the season.

that's a three run double.

That's a basis clearing double.

If that gets past Jared Triolo, like there's no way around it.

That's a, that's a three run double games tied and you've got a runner on second with one out.

Yeah.

So huge play by Jared Triolo.

His second double play any innings.

This one though, did not result in a basis clearing brawl, like the first one did.

Yeah.

I forgot about that.

We have to go back in time and talk about that.

Yeah.

That was Antonacci again.

Again, there was, it was a, close play at second.

He comes barreling in, I guess, whenever he came up, he hit Brandon Lowe a little bit with his elbow.

I don't know if Brandon Lowe said anything, but Antonacci was walking back towards him, chirping.

I think at one point Brandon Lowe was like, what the F are you, or what the, what the F is wrong with you?

Like I was the lip reading that I, that I caught on it.

but it was really funny to see that like Suze Oneil Cruz stepped into the frame and Antonacci started backing off.

He was like, yeah, I don't want, I don't want any part of this.

That's the thing is like, it's loud.

Didn't do anything.

Louders converted that will play Antonacci is the one who was at fault here.

And then he starts the base, he starts the whole like clearing of the benches.

And then he backs off the second Oneil Cruz gets anywhere near him.

Like Cruz wasn't even saying anything to him either.

He was just walking toward Antonacci and he was backing off.

It was pathetic, but I was like, why are you starting this?

Like you're the one who causes, unless I think, unless he thinks Brandon Lowe isn't allowed to throw the ball, the first base, I don't understand why this even happens.

I don't know either.

I don't know either.

Also, thank you to Hamilton, the babe Porter correcting me.

It was four to two on that double play.

So that ball gets into the corner.

It's not a tie game.

The pirates are losing five to four.

So yeah, huge play there by Triolo.

Pirates don't get anything in the ninth.

Mason Montgomery comes in, closes things out like he normally does.

One, two, three, two strikeouts just continues to be absolutely dominant.

His 11th save of the season.

I don't know what more we can say about Mason Montgomery.

He's just, he's awesome.

He's just phenomenal.

He's awesome.

The most notable thing about the ninth inning was the worst challenge I might've ever seen from a pirate and the worst attempted challenge I've ever seen from the white socks.

There were some bad challenges and Doval challenged the pitch too.

That was like nowhere near the stone.

Yeah, like Flores was like three inches above the strike zone.

Vargas tried to challenge the last pitch of the game and was like right down the heart of the plate.

I'm like, what are we doing here?

We're professional baseball players here.

What are we doing?

Yep.

But the pirates win, pirates win.

They're back to 500.

Neil, they are 73 and 73.

Diamondbacks lost tonight.

Diamondbacks lost, the Padres won, right?

So if we're, if we're talking, if you, if you want to, if you want to get into that, right, the pirates post-season odds are all the way up to 1.2%.

They were 0.8% heading into today.

So they went up, they went up by 50%.

Yeah.

Just got to go sweep the Cubs.

It's easy.

That's all you got to do.

Just don't lose again.

Just keep winning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why not us?

All right.

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It's in 93 entries, which means you got roughly, you got like the same percentage chance of winning a per Manny brother sandwich than the pirates have of making the post season.

You've got like a 1.2% chance here guys.

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Congratulations.

All right.

Well, Neil, the pirates won their fifth straight series today.

It's their seventh series win in their last eight series.

Tomorrow, Jared Jones takes the mound.

It's basically a pick them.

Fan duals got the pirates at minus one Oh eight on the money line.

They've got the white socks at minus one Oh eight on the money line.

So they don't know who to pick.

but it's a seven 40 start time again tomorrow, before they head to the north side of Chicago to face the Cubs who just got, just got swept by the Brewers.

Got to believe we're going to, we're going to score five off in the Naga on Friday.

I believe.

Hey, Ryan O'Hearn, is looking like he's going to be back.

so that would be a nice little pick me up as well.

but no pirates win again, back to 500.

Appreciate all of you guys watching all of you listening.

It's a long show, 40 minute post game show.

I remember the last time we had a lot of stuff to talk about today.

This was an actually interesting game.

Like there haven't been too many, like, there's only so much you can talk about when they beat the angels one, nothing like this had a lot to talk about though.

And there were eight pitchers.

So it's like, there was just a, yeah, it was a lot to talk about.

So, great game pirates win back to 500.

Just keep winning.

Keep winning.

Bucktober your weights.

Gotta believe.

Gotta believe.

All right, guys, Let's Go Bucs.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Offbeat in the morning, post game show in the evening.

Also keep in mind this weekend starts our Clemente museum fundraiser.

So make sure you're tuning into all of our shows.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday is Clemente day at PNC park.

That's where like the whole fundraiser is going to lead up to.

but yeah, we're raising money for the Clemente museum.

So make sure you tune in all weekend long leading up to Tuesday.

should be a lot of fun.

I can't wait.

All right, everybody.

Peace out.

Go bucks.

We'll see you tomorrow.

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