Over the Monster · Mar 21, 2021
Red Sox vs. Pirates lineups: Can Nick Pivetta’s hot March continue?
That’s my fifth starter! Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The Red Sox and Pirates—a new opponent!—face off at 1:05 p.m. afternoon in Fort Myers as Nick Pivetta looks to continue his torrid spring.
Pivetta’s line so far March looks like a nice complete-game: 9 IP, 3 R8 K, 1 BB. Most recently he went four strong against the Rays en route to likely locking down the fifth starter spot. OTM alumnus and antagonist Matthew Kory wrote in his invaluable newsletter, Sox Outsider, about Pivetta, and how the problem was never his stuff:
