Looking ahead to first pitch …
Game: Pirates (71-88) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (94-65)
Time: 8:10 p.m.
Site: House of Horrors
TV, radio: Root Sports, News Talk 104.7 FM
Weather: 53 degrees, rain, roof closed
Here is the official live box score, and here are lineups …
Pirates:
- Alex Presley, LF
- Neil Walker, 2B
- Andrew McCutchen, CF
- Derrek Lee, 1B
- Garrett Jones, RF
- Jason Jaramillo, C
- Pedro Alvarez, 3B
- Chase d’Arnaud, SS
- Charlie Morton, RHP
Brewers:
- Corey Hart, RF
- Nyjer Morgan, CF
- Mark Kotsay, LF
- Prince Fielder, 1B
- Rickie Weeks, 2B
- Jerry Hairston Jr., 2B
- Yuniesky Betancourt, SS
- Jonathan Lucroy, C
- Shaun Marcum, RHP
News updates are on our Pirates page. Rob Biertempfel is at the House, and he has inside his machine a copy-and-paste version of tonight’s outcome ready to go.
Need 2 out of 3 to avoid 90 losses, a bigger deal than you might think.
Plus, a big finish would sure make it easier to not talk about Miller Park streaks all the time next year. I’m in the house tonight trying to rally one final solid outing in 2011 from Charlie.
Let’s Go Bucs!
53 degrees and rain? Good Gawd. It’s only freaking September.
Our overnight LOW will be 74. At about 4 AM.
Then back up to 90 tomorrow.
Do we really need to end here? I hate the Brewers.
@JoeBucco
AGREED…but what do you think the chances are that we take even ONE game at the House of Horrors (btw Dejan, that is aptly named).
Andrew McCutchen is a late scratch. Ace pinch hitter Xavier Paul will be in CF.
Sometimes Charlie Morton is Roy Halliday this season, and other times he is Ronnie Cedeno.
Looks like Ronnie Cedeno has shown up tonight thus far.
Nic-ic-ice turn by Neil Walker!!!
And suddenly, after the bases are loaded, Halliday appears.
Isn’t it ironic that they basically invent a disabled list for Ryan Doumit & now it’s too late to put him on it.
A big finish for the Pirates could go a long way toward exorcising the demons in Milwaukee.
Someone needs to pour a bottle of IC Light onto Miller Field…
Disperse the curse!
All I can say is typical!
Could this game be any freaking longer!!!
Moving roughly at the pace of your typical Yankees / Red Sox game.
This is what happens when your starting pitchers can’t go 6-7 innings and your bullpen isn’t very good.
Hurdle may have screwed the pooch by taking out the only guy that actually got 2 batters out this inning, and now they will be losing after the next batter. This was a big shame, but until this team starts countering the antics of the Brewers by beating them, they will continue to be too scared to make pitches and get hits. I know the game isn’t over yet, but you can’t give up 11 hits and 6 freaking walks to this team and expect to win. The Pirates have 11 hits and 5 walks themselves, but they have also left way too many men on the bases. DMac is pitching bad enough to walk in the winning (leading) run.
Lucroy actually helped us out there by swinging at ball 4, though he did get good wood on it. Luckily Chase made a nice stab at it. Lets see if we can answer for good in this game to actually win something in this building.
Through 6 innings, 260 pitches have been thrown.
They are showing this game to the prisoners at Gitmo. It’s replaced waterboarding.
Is the bottom of the 7th the first 1-2-3 inning of the game?
This is gonna be a 5 hour game
That was a very John Franco-esque inning for Grilli.
OK, how do they blow this one ?
I feel like Clark Griswold when the all lights finally lit. Cue the Hallelujah Chorus.
As the Gunner would say, “We had ‘em all the way!”
4 hours, 15 minutes —— that’s what it’s like to watch a Red Sox/Yankees game, isn’t it?!