I asked Don Kelly how important it'd be for these Pirates, particularly after their recent surge, to not let this no-offense thing slip into the series finale Sunday:
"It's tough right now. We hit some balls hard tonight, but we need to be able to bunch them together" he'd reply before crediting Luis Castillo. "He threw the ball well. Mixed the two-seamer, the four-seamer, throw his offspeed in there ... a veteran guy that kept us off-balance."
That was the general sentiment, that these two games were more about the Seattle pitching than the Pittsburgh hitting. We'll see Sunday. George Kirby's got a 4.85 ERA.
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I asked Don Kelly how important it'd be for these Pirates, particularly after their recent surge, to not let this no-offense thing slip into the series finale Sunday:
"It's tough right now. We hit some balls hard tonight, but we need to be able to bunch them together" he'd reply before crediting Luis Castillo. "He threw the ball well. Mixed the two-seamer, the four-seamer, throw his offspeed in there ... a veteran guy that kept us off-balance."
That was the general sentiment, that these two games were more about the Seattle pitching than the Pittsburgh hitting. We'll see Sunday. George Kirby's got a 4.85 ERA.
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