At a family reunion today, but Yoslan Herrera's taking the mound today at Coors Field. I've got a bad feeling about this....

Wouldn't it be nice if the All-Star Break started after that win last night? If we could cruise into three off-days with that win behind us? Instead, we have to play the Cardinals one more time today, with Ian Snell and Joel Piniero facing off on the mound. I thought Snell looked a bit better in his...

I didn't watch any of last night's game, but I see from the gamethread that a lot of people were upset by JR's decision to let Zach Duke bat with the bases loaded and the Pirates already in a pretty deep hole. The decision made was essentially, "Welp, we're screwed tonight, let's at least try and ke...

I don't really like the Cardinals at all. This is mostly because they've been the best team in the NL Central for the past few years, Tony La Russa is obnoxious as hell, and I've got to hate someone other than the abstract concept of the Red Sox and Yankees. That semi-irrational hate means that this...

The Pirates and Yankees round out interleague play for everyone tonight with a make-up of the June 26th game that was rained out, despite my being in attendance. Strangely, the same two pitchers are taking the mound tonight that were supposed to take the mound two weeks ago. Hopefully things will go...

Tonight, in Game 1 of the epic battle for the basement of the National League Central, the Pirates and Astros are both fittingly starting cast-offs from other teams in the division. The Pirates get Phil Dumatrait off of the DL tonight while the Astros are sending Runelvys Hernandez to the hill. You ...

With two ugly losses in this series already in-pocket, the Pirates get to send Zach Duke and his 6.66 ERA in Miller Park to the mound today to face Jeff Suppan and try to avoid the sweep. Hopefully he's got some tape of whatever Paul Maholm did yesterday and he's going to try and duplicate it, becau...

And so the Pirates are looking to bounce back from yet another ugly loss, with yesterday's being so bad that it got Tom Gorzelanny demoted to AAA Indianapolis in it's aftermath. The Brewers have been streaking for a while now and with a win, they'll probably move into a tie with the Cardinals for th...

You know what's really hard to do? Write about a game taking place on Sunday at 1:35 PM when it's actually in the vicinity of 3 AM on Friday. What I know about this game is that Tom Gorzelanny and Andy Sonnastine will start. What I don't know is just about everything else....

After about 11 months away, I'm heading back to PNC Park tonight. The last time I was there, a message greeted us on the scoreboard that said, "Pirates trade OF Rajai Davis to the Giants for SP Matt Morris." Hopefully a similarly awful message does not await me tonight. Anyways, Paul Maholm and Mike...