Usually when I do game threads, the Pirates have creamed their competition in the games preceding my thread, and then they crash and burn.
In this series, though, the Bucs have blown leads or never got into the games, so they were coming in off three straight losses to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park this weekend.
Obviously, that was their signal to rip stuff up, and so they did, to the tune of 6-0 this afternoon.
The Phillies brought in Hans Crouse to start, who was pitching in Double-A Reading this time last week. Cole Tucker—yes, Cole Tucker—promptly welcomed him to MLB by bouncing his very first sinker in the Show off the right side of the right field foul pole to make it 1-0 Bucs.