He played in 77 minor league games, majority for the double-A Reading Fightin Phils.
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Quinn advanced to second on a wild pitch and then Ryan Howard grounded to Frazier at second, who booted it, allowing Howard to reach and the speedy Quinn to score from second, tying the game at 1-1.
“It was just a bad night”, Cole said. Pittsburgh is also 4-1 in Kuhl’s last five road starts, and 7-3 in Kuhl’s last 10 starts overall. He was on the hill for the Pirates’ 4-0 loss at the hands of the Chicago Cubs in the wild card game, where he allowed four runs in five innings, including a pair of home runs. They try to keep it professional, but they take them personal.
The reasons for this deterioration from being one the game’s most balanced and overall risky clubs has been a rash of varying issues.
This should be a pretty good pitching matchup, but I’m not too keen on the Pirates lately.
The team’s prized young arm in Cole has been able to produce a quality start in just over half of his outings. Eschewing thoughts of the suspension, he indicated that he feels he’s picking things up where he’d left them earlier in the year. Jeff Locke’s ERA has ballooned up north of five runs per game, and he has been relegated to the bullpen.
Right-hander Ivan Nova did not factor in the decision but continues to up his free-agent stock.
Cole’s answers were almost as short as his rocky first outing for the fading Pittsburgh Pirates.
Manager Clint Hurdle was ejected after arguing with first base umpire Alan Porter during the sixth inning. This gave the Pirates runners on second and third with no one out, and helped set up the Pirates’ come from behind victory.
In one potential and very plausible scenario, the Phillies’ lineup next season could take an entirely new dynamic at the top. The homer was the eighth in 24 contests for Galvis, who entered the game with a.269 on-base percentage. Even though Polanco has had a big breakout season for the Pirates in 2016, he is, unfortunately, not finishing it on a strong note. And with it being essentially a lost season for McCutchen at this point, it is no wonder that it is approaching the same outcome for the team as a whole.
“Just left that one up right there”. When you team him with Hernandez, who has become a more aggressive speed threat with 11 bunt hits and 27 infield hits this year coming into Wednesday night, and you add a totally different look to the top of this order.
Nice to not have the pressure of needing to win games to interfere in the growth process. However, they have forgotten how to defend their own turf, seeing their home record descend to a sub-.500 level this year, at 36-38.
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Quinn, the other rookie summoned from Double-A Reading over the weekend, got the offense started with a one-out walk in an at-bat he began buried 0-2 against hard-throwing Pirates reliever Felipe Rivero. With the win, the Pirates are now 70-73 on the season. “We’ll see what makes the most sense”.
