Braxton Ashcraft is the first Pirates pitcher in the Modern Era (since 1901) to have multiple starts with at least 10+ strikeouts and zero walks in a season.
Hey it’s the first day of Summer (June 21) and Ben Cherington and the Pirates organization still belive in this bullpen. Greg brown even tried to sell it on the broadcast today.
The Pirates are the only MLB team in the last 50 years to have the tying run on 3rd with 0 outs in the 9th inning 2 games in a row but lose both games.
Yohan Ramirez pitched 1.1 innings of relief, 0 hits and 0 runs on 6 pitches. And they lift him for Mason Montgomery because once again Kelly and Murphy are too worried about antalytics. Zero baseball feel. A actual relief pitcher who was grooving and they yank him.