This is how the Pirates lineup should be for the rest of the year
1B- Horwitz
2B- Lowe
SS- Griffin
3B- Gonzales
LF- Reynolds
CF- Cruz
RF- Valdez/Garcia
C- Rodriguez
DH- OโHearn
@Mikey5Aces Iโve noticed Toronto can hit 97mph fastballs but the pirates canโt hit 92 mph fastballs. Something is wrong with this teams hitters and itโs organizational wide
Pirates have 3 hits, have struck out 6 times so far in 5 innings, are in last place in their division, yet our best player Brandon Lowe is sitting on the bench
Please anyone, make it make sense. Does this team actually want to win baseball games? I really don't think so.
What sucks is Chandler is probably going to lose the game because of errors and lousy hitters. Cruz is terrible, his HRs donโt cancel out his 80+ strikeouts . He is a head case as is evidenced by his constant watching hittable pitches and strike 3โs
That's it for Chandler. All in all, solid outing. Defense let him down.
5 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 11 K
1st Pirate w/11 strikeouts since Skenes 7/11/24 at MIL
1st in 5.0 IP or fewer since Erik Bedard (also 11 on 5/3/12 at STL)