From looking at the scoreboard, this week’s four-game series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds was boring. However, that was not the case.
The closest game was decided by three runs, and the average margin of victory was more than five. One man’s ability to crush baseballs and admire said mashings, however, got a lot of people talking.
In the second and third games of the set, the Reds outscored the Pirates 19-7. But the numbers hardly seemed to matter.
The hot topic surrounding the Pirates wasn’t the team getting embarrassed by a division rival.