Noted baseball sage Crash Davis once said that strikeouts are fascist.
If that’s the case, then Charlie Morton spent his Memorial Day ensuring that democracy was safe, inducing 18 ground-ball outs in a strong return to the rotation Monday night.
Behind Morton’s typically sinker-heavy outing, the Pirates scored their fourth consecutive win, 4-2 over the Miami Marlins, to get back to .500 at 22-22.
Morton, who had surgery to repair a torn hip labrum in the offseason, was activated off the disabled list earlier in the day.