yuck: Pirates 2, Phillies 1

You know, it’s really hard to advise people not to overreact sometimes. This is a smart community of baseball people that we have cultivated here. Most everyone in this community knows that baseball is a marathon, we can’t have a football season mentality to each game, blah blah blah.

But sometimes, the Phillies make it difficult to not overreact to what we’ve seen on the field.

Seeing its offense go dormant yet again, the Phillies dropped another game to the lowly Pirates, giving up the series and putting themselves in the position to have to beat one of the better pitchers in the game to have avoid the sweep.

The highlights were few and far between today for the Phillies. Ranger Suarez was…