Pittsburgh Pirates Postseason Thread
 

Buctober...Pirates playoff baseball in October...really looking forward to this. Hopefully the bats can get to Cueto early tonight. PNC Blackout

1 and done

Guess we'll see chump

I don't like this 1 game playoff deal. Don't think it is a fair way to go. Maybe best of 3 with all the games played at the higher ranked seeds home.

maybe Moreno can steal some bases....he's fast.

Agreed Rand. The one and done for the wild card doesn't make much sense after playing 162 or in the Rays case 163 games. Best of 3 would be the way to go.

Or Marte sans the oven mitten...

thinking back to Manny Sanguillen and his 40 oz bat. Rennie Stennet and Willie Stargell

Agreed. Adding a second wildcard team to play in a one game playoff is pretty stupid.

That being said, I would love to see the Bucs make some noise and have a deep run.

Reds: 000 000 100 - 1
Pirates:100 020 01X - 4

Raise The Jolly Roger!

I like Pitt tonight.

Pirates -144 as of 7pm.

I actually like Keith Olberman a lot as a sportscaster

Reds +125

No bet. Waiting for Thursday.

Loss

First pitch today at 5:07 ET

Cleveland sure sucked last night.

Give Cobb some credit here, he pitched a tremndous game last night.
The Caberera double play was huge.

Cleveland had the misfortune of playing a pathetically weak schedule to get there. They only needed to put out 70% effort to trounce the likes of Hou, CWS and Minn and simply were not sharp. The Rays have been playing elimination ball for almost a week and were much sharper for it.

Trotting out a rookie who started the year in AA to save your season spoke volumes about their pitching staff as well. IMO if they played even one remotely competitive team down the stretch the result could have been different, but they had no chance last night.

Regardless on who they played, they still played almost flawless baseball down the stretch to make the post season.
They just got beat by a better and more talented team last night.

Pirates need the Lumber Company back, facing Lance Lynn today should be an easier task than the Wainright match up yesterday. Tough spot for the rookie Cole but he's been big pretty much all year for the Pirates. Need to get this one and get back to PNC for the next two.

First pitch today at 1:07 ET

It's up to Ground Chuck if we're getting it done in front of the home crowd.

Let's Go Bucs!

I'm going tomorrow. The weather looks really bad, wouldn't be shocked if they played it Tuesday.

Gotta tip your cap to the Cards rookie pitcher Michael Wacha. Stepped up in a tough spot and came up huge. Marte and Walker on the other hand...better wake up in a hurry. Hitting (if you want to call it that) a combined 1 for 31 in the series at the top of the order.

Wow, that guy can throw blazers...near no hitter and Pirates still had a shot.What, total of 4 hits in the game..turn the page and on to st louie..

Cardinals always seem to come out on top in these big games...hoping for the Bucs.