The Pirates best chance at winning a game in this international series came crashing down as Paul Skenes gave up four runs on nine hits in five innings to hand the Pirates another loss 5-2 to fall back to .500. Bryan Reynolds had two hits and Marcell Ozuna drove in both of the Pirates runs in the losing effort. Tyler and Doug recapped this one on the NS9 Postgame Show powered by Primanti’s Bros. You can watch/listen here:

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Seven starts against those lefties and they had a 0.40 ERA against the Pirates bats in 45.1 innings. That’s stupid. This lineup’s kypronite is lefty pitchers. It’s a serious problem. They are basically uncompetitive against them. Just like trying to fix a bullpen problem in May, I’m not sure there’s an answer here to make them suddenly better against lefties. They are what they are at this point.