Pirates Roll Over, Lose to Red Sox 7-4

Matt Freed/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This game, like Alford, took a dive.If this game had gone five innings, we’d be going on about how awesome the Pirates were today against the Red Sox. We would have raved about Kevin Newman’s continued dominance with the bat and Anthony Alford’s great play in center field to rob Alex Verdugo. We’d be talking about a Pirates win and raising the metaphorical Jolly Roger.

But it went seven and a half innings, and the sixth inning in particular ended up looking like this for the Bucs:

Almost faster than you could say “wow, Geoff Hartlieb isn’t looking too good today,” the Pirates went from a solid 4-1 lead to trailing 7-4 in the sixth inning, which ended up…